Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adj] to find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to find a fool-proof numbering system applicable to all molecules , but two simple rules are well-established . |
| 2 | ‘ Despite intensive efforts for nearly a year , we have not been able to find a satisfactory formula either in terms of price or consistency of supply ’ he said . |
| 3 | Monnet had resigned in February 1955 in the wake of the EDC failure , but was still in position since the Six had not been able to find a successor . |
| 4 | Although he could trace his ancestors back to the reign of James the first , he had not been able to find a single man on that tree of immoralities — even to the bloodiest root — who had caused , either by his hand or hiring , what he , Estabrook , was out this midnight to contrive : the murder of his wife . |
| 5 | To her disappointment , she had not been able to find a Château La Tour Monchauzet vintage on the wine-list , but the half-bottle of Côtes de Bergerac that she chose instead more than made up for it . |
| 6 | In the adjacent Golf Bar golfers will soon be able to find a welcoming watering hole looking over the green . |
| 7 | Where one tile on a sill is damaged , it may not be possible to find a matching replacement . |
| 8 | Are you saying that six to eight miles would not be , you would not be able to find a location for a new settlement in |
| 9 | Non-monogamy may be less possible for us , and we may stay in relationships longer than we should because we are scared of not being able to find a replacement . |
| 10 | ‘ However , I have received an assurance from the Post Office that in the event of the present franchisees not being able to find a buyer for the business , then the Post Office will step in and take over the running of the counter service again . ’ |
| 11 | Not being able to find an immediate answer to these questions , Cassie crept towards the mirror and stared in . |
| 12 | The Master of the Rolls has always been keen to find a middle way . ’ |
| 13 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |
| 14 | Finding out the truth about Jasper and Bienvida might finally militate against Cecilia Darne 's view that a child should always be able to find a home with its parents . |
| 15 | He justified the ‘ legal regulation of the problem ’ as the only way of heading off the likelihood of spontaneous ‘ defensive actions of the enraged population ’ , and claimed the German government had been compelled ‘ by the idea of being able , through a once and for all secular solution , of perhaps creating a basis on which the German people might possibly be able to find a tolerable relationship with the Jewish people ’ . |
| 16 | The courts have also been reluctant to find a breach of a duty of care on the part of the Prison Department , even when the health of a prisoner is at issue . |
| 17 | They did n't want to be press barons , says Miles , they wanted a community paper , and it had n't even been easy to find an editor amongst the founding group , preoccupied as they were with art galleries and bookshops , theatre companies and poetry , and preoccupied also with that sense of freedom , and the breaking down of national barriers which had accompanied the explosion of travel in the 1960s . |
| 18 | I have n't been able to find a plausible answer , and Aria UK were n't letting on either . |
| 19 | ‘ You have n't been able to find a suitable match , ’ Lindsey put in quietly . |
| 20 | It was already nearly six o'clock , and I would n't be able to find a one-hour photo lab open anywhere that evening ; and I had to return to the Sheraton to collect my bag , and be back on the train by seven-thirty or soon after . |
| 21 | But if I was The John Dyson , do you think crowded restaurants would n't be able to find a table for me ? |
| 22 | Most probably would n't be able to find a hospital open . |