Example sentences of "can not find " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Either from choice or because they can not find employment , people are retiring earlier . |
| 3 | This desire that can not find its name ( though it would dare speak it , if it could ) is pleasurable . |
| 4 | SALES of sheltered housing units are falling because older people can not find buyers to purchase their existing properties . |
| 5 | If you can not find wooden boxes , use large polythene bags for storage , but leave the bag tops open . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The firm says it simply can not find the cash to meet its wage bill . |
| 8 | The firm says it simply can not find the cash to meet its wage bill . |
| 9 | Use a good cream cheese if you can not find Mascarpone . |
| 10 | The big oddity is why pay remains low for skills that an industry needs but can not find . |
| 11 | If the computer can not find the part at the local air base , the request is automatically forwarded , via satellite , to the right place back in America . |
| 12 | English cricket does not have this capacity for internal strife in the same way , the periodic Yorkshire blood-lettings being of a different order ; but West Indian cricket has grown strong precisely because it has risen above its problems , and on that basis England can not find the same sort of strength since they do not have the same problems to overcome . |
| 13 | Sorry , we can not find a place for you in the Christian ministry . ’ |
| 14 | In fact , you can not find more conformity than among young people . |
| 15 | They can not find it here in stone as soft as sand |
| 16 | This , when I can not find a word . |
| 17 | If you can not find a diary , buy a large notebook instead . |
| 18 | This is because many children want to talk about the subject but can not find an adult in whom to confide or who is willing to talk about it . |
| 19 | But the main deterrent is that in much of Russia and Ukraine the bureaucrats , Servicemen and scientists who rode roughshod over the locals while living ‘ abroad ’ can not find homes or jobs . |
| 20 | ‘ There must be something radically wrong with the play if it pleases everybody , ’ he wrote , ‘ but at the moment I can not find what it is . ’ |
| 21 | Of course because there are no living trilobites we can not find direct confirmation of this hypothesis , but we can look for other arthropods that have the same modifications of the eyes , for example , in the present day oceans . |
| 22 | I want to be able to secure the white eight spokes onto my SWB IIA , but can not find a Net of locking wheel nuts to fit . |
| 23 | The originals were cut before I purchased the vehicle and I can not find the answer on any wiring diagram . |
| 24 | I 've been overhauling the gearbox in my Series III 109 , 4-cylinder petrol , but can not find a trace of gearbox number to order parts . |
| 25 | Some Latin American educationalists predict that the ensuing frustration of an educated population that can not find appropriate work , will lead to social conflict . |
| 26 | Yet she can not find an entirely satisfactory alternative , for the life of the spinster is often portrayed in stark terms . |
| 27 | Those that can not find room form spherical clumps , hydrophobic tails innermost , called miscelles . |
| 28 | Some patients , especially after a head injury , may become disorientated while they are out , so that they can not find their way home . |
| 29 | The teenager who can not find a job , the young mother with no one but toddlers to talk to , the active man forced to retire because of age regulations , the person who spends day after day doing the same repetitive work — all these people , and many others , may suffer from extreme boredom . |
| 30 | If you can not find the cash , the beneficiaries can sell the shares to whoever they like — and , again , you could find yourself with an outsider on the board . |