Example sentences of "[not/n't] find [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm crying because I ca n't bear not to find my family , ’ she sniffed , ‘ not because of you . ’ |
| 2 | Rugs from these countries have not found their way into the West to any large degree . |
| 3 | Although some of these points have been considered , our understanding of colonic function has not increased much and measurements of colonic pressures have not found their way into routine clinical practice ; measurements of transit have a more practical value in selected patients . |
| 4 | Leigh agrees with Martin Kunz that much European work has not found its way into New York galleries . |
| 5 | Mr Scherer , who said that he had not found his tenure as president unduly onerous , commented on the excellent relationship between the Publishers Association and Booksellers Association , though he hinted at areas of possible conflict . |
| 6 | This desire that can not find its name ( though it would dare speak it , if it could ) is pleasurable . |
| 7 | The second story does not find its parallel in Exodus till chapter 18 . |
| 8 | I judged our Swiss hosts to be sincere in saying that their latest equipment would be offered on a preferential basis to NATO and other friendly countries , and that it would not find its way to Argentina . |
| 9 | By socialist accumulation we mean the addition to the functioning means of production of a surplus product which has been created within the constituted socialist economy and which does not find its way into supplementary distribution among the agents of socialist production and the socialist state , but serves for expanded reproduction . |
| 10 | In the censorship scale obscene literature might be rated as less serious than racist literature but both would have to defer to seditious literature which normally does not find its way on to library shelves . |
| 11 | Also , Brother owners should be careful that the brush does not find its way into the needle retaining springs , so that when you pull or push the brush , it bends these springs . |
| 12 | Much of this may not find its way into local authority budgets , as a dramatic increase in students in further education of 222,000 ( 25% ) is signalled over the next three years . |
| 13 | The young woman 's death did not find its way into Jarvis Stringer 's book . |
| 14 | ‘ You understand , Miss Stirling , anything you see in this house , anything Alexei may wish to show you , can not find its way into your article , ’ he said in a low voice which carried a note of threat . |
| 15 | The food that India produces does not find its way to the people who need it as efficiently as it did in the Maharashtra drought . |
| 16 | ( See Hall v Marians 19 TC 582 , Wild v King Smith 24 TC 86 , IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 cf Lord Radcliffe in Thompson v Moyse 39 TC 29 at 337 ; it is not felt that Harmel v Wright 49 TC 149 at 159 alters the position because if one is " keeping one 's eye " ( p157E ) on the income and benefit it does not find its way to the United Kingdom ( it is hardly the case that the income and benefit " come in at one end of a conduit pipe and pass through certain traceable pipes until they come out at the other end to the taxpayer ( in the United Kingdom " ) ) . ) |
| 17 | Fragmentation and excessive pace were also found to be important variables bearing on job satisfaction , with many workers , who did not find their work monotonous , stating that it did not absorb their full attention or that they found the pace of it too fast . |
| 18 | So , too , similar ‘ home industries ’ of women in the towns do not find their way into occupation statistics . |
| 19 | While freedom movements in central and eastern Africa were stimulated by these coercive policies , an effective means of ideological diffusion did not lie in the hands of African cultivators nor their leaders , and therefore the analytical lessons to be drawn did not find their way into the international conventional wisdom about conservation . |
| 20 | Some patients , especially after a head injury , may become disorientated while they are out , so that they can not find their way home . |
| 21 | One member of the Lindop committee , Paul Sieghart , a lawyer , told New Scientist last week that the chief officers feeling in 1978 ‘ was that intelligence systems — with unverified non-factual information — should not find their way into factual systems , and therefore [ the data ] should not be retrieved by people looking for factual information . ’ |
| 22 | What guarantees can the Minister provide that other metal objects can not find their way into prison in the way in which that did and disappear as it did ? |
| 23 | Yet these were minor victories compared to the more sweeping demands for reform made by the more radical Whigs which did not find their way into the Declaration . |
| 24 | They affected to despise her , but they did not find their contempt a strain , whereas the other really bad disciplinarian in the school , a Geography mistress , one Miss Riley , inflicted on them an intolerable suffering , for they felt themselves compelled to torment her , and she would sit before them , thin and pretty and anguished , making vain attempts to restore order , miserably transparent in her misery , and unable to conceal the depths of her humiliation — depths which frightened them , but which they could not leave unplumbed . |
| 25 | But serve her right , she had cut off her own source of fine delicate shoes , she would not find their like again , not in Swansea . |
| 26 | He was given a room in Murphy 's lodge at the gates and was the only member of Alexandra 's household who did not find her independence disconcerting . |
| 27 | Paris was mooted but when Henrietta could not find her passport they eloped to Edinburgh . |
| 28 | Nadia says she does not find her lack of fingers to be a serious drawback when tackling any task , apart from cutting food and using scissors . |
| 29 | ‘ I am glad , at any rate , that you do not find your position here as irksome as I had supposed . ’ |
| 30 | He was already in so far he could not find his depth , and he wanted to turn and strike back for the shore , but , like an unpractised swimmer , found that the distance he had come was too great for him to return . |