Example sentences of "not find " in BNC.
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| 1 | The potential reader of a monograph on a minor artist may not find a book easily , but there are plenty of publications on Leonardo , Rembrandt or Picasso . |
| 2 | This is a straight comedy speech ( though the character does not find herself funny ) . |
| 3 | Mr Kidd said he already had anecdotal evidence of US conventions pulling out of the UK : ‘ One conference of surgeons and one group of insurance sales staff , who planned to come to London for two weeks , could not find a hotel they were happy with . ’ |
| 4 | If the experimenter found it then he kept it , and if he did not find it the child got the chocolate . |
| 5 | If you can not find an address of the local group , ask your local Citizens Advice Bureau , local library , or write to Age Concern England , Astral House , 1268 London Road , London SW16 4ER , Tel : ( 081 ) 679 8000 . |
| 6 | Either from choice or because they can not find employment , people are retiring earlier . |
| 7 | And if Turgenev were to object that one could not find a more typical product of the 1840s than the Petrashevsky Circle to which Dostoevsky belonged , how would the other man reply ? |
| 8 | Do they not find there ( I know I do ) just that suffocation Olson speaks of ? |
| 9 | This suggests that the next MB Group foray will require fresh equity of some sort but investors may not find that too alarming . |
| 10 | The majority of British people do not find universities attractive or accessible . |
| 11 | ‘ He knows he could not find an independent panel anywhere in Britain which would accept it is right to make an offer which is less than the rate of inflation to people who work in a service which is already underpaid and understaffed . ’ |
| 12 | Readers who believe in reincarnation will probably not find all this such tough going . |
| 13 | This desire that can not find its name ( though it would dare speak it , if it could ) is pleasurable . |
| 14 | SALES of sheltered housing units are falling because older people can not find buyers to purchase their existing properties . |
| 15 | At Westonbirt , noted as the best place in England for autumn colour , they do not find this so . |
| 16 | If you can not find wooden boxes , use large polythene bags for storage , but leave the bag tops open . |
| 17 | New Zealand , silver medal-winners last time , may not find it easy against the improving Finland . |
| 18 | Multiple regression analysis suggests that readers did not find the highbrow press significantly more useful than the lowbrow press for any purpose : reading a highbrow paper had no influence in the multiple regressions for newspaper ‘ usefulness ’ ( Table 6.10 ) . |
| 19 | He did not find it awkward that his own father was the tutor of the college and so responsible in a double sense for his pastoral care . |
| 20 | He did not find learning to pray an easy occupation . |
| 21 | He had told a friend not long before , ‘ If you walked from Humber to Severn and dodged Derby , you would not find a bishop who can read or write ’ . |
| 22 | There are no circumstances , and no society , where envy does not find the material it needs to feed on . |
| 23 | I confess I do not find much relevance in this to the death penalty . |
| 24 | You will not find those individual persons amongst the majority , because by definition the majority is composed of individuals who do not speak . |
| 25 | The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry . |
| 26 | Whatever , I do not find it surprising that Lacan admired Augustine , and credits him with foreshadowing psychoanalysis ( Ecrits , 20 ) . |
| 27 | Likewise , Maxse turned on Bonar Law when he ditched the ‘ food taxes ’ from the tariff programme , and again did not find himself alone in voicing criticism of the new Tory leader . |
| 28 | Phoebe could accept that , it was how grandmothers were meant to be , but when she turned to her friends , looking for guidance and inspiration , she did not find it . |
| 29 | She could not find in herself any source of passion . |
| 30 | She groped for the light switch , but could not find it . |