Example sentences of "not find a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vogue assured its readers that ‘ everyone goes cruising and the trouble is not to find a cruise but to choose from the numberless , almost equally alluring cruises that are most suited to one 's particular fancy ’ . |
| 2 | This need not be the case , for advancements in the use of technology within the catering kitchen have progressed to the extent that it is unusual not to find a catering establishment using high technology within the work-place . |
| 3 | Lack of confidence in the ‘ Portrait of Michael Wohlgemut ’ attributed to Durer resulted in failure at £380,000 ( est. £600,000–800,000 ) while Sotheby 's must have considered themselves unlucky not to find a buyer for the rare Garofalo ‘ Calumny of Apelles ’ ( lot 41 , est. £200,000–300,000 ) , an important but difficult canvas . |
| 4 | It was , as it were , a survey designed not to find a problem , rather than one to check on the most vulnerable forests . |
| 5 | Should you be unfortunate enough not to find a solution by this means , then you may have lost the alignment of the disk read/write heads . |
| 6 | Although Kemira is not completely home and dry , the EC will find it virtually impossible not to find a solution to the problems it has recognised . |
| 7 | Although Kemira is not completely home and dry , the EC will find it virtually impossible not to find a solution to the problems it has recognised . |
| 8 | Although Kemira is not completely home and dry , the EC will find it virtually impossible not to find a solution to the problems it has recognised . |
| 9 | Although the graphics are looking a little dated , you 'd be a banana not to find a copy . |
| 10 | He looked round the little nursery with a puzzled frown , as if disconcerted not to find a chair . |
| 11 | This is not , perhaps , the best year for Britain to act as host to open the series , for the entry tomorrow is clearly affected by Commonwealth Games training schedules as well as the fact that the English Cross Country Union has not found a sponsor who can provide the money for trust funds that might have enticed more prominent athletes . |
| 12 | We have not found a diminution in gastric acid output in old subjects with histologically normal stomachs under basal or stimulated conditions . |
| 13 | One of the problems is that we have not found a way of doing it cheaply , and this has caused great anxiety . ’ |
| 14 | The Opposition have not found a way round that problem . |
| 15 | If you have not found a queen , your colony will not survive for long , so try again . |
| 16 | Of the big fish , immediately pre-season David Evans had still not found a home . |
| 17 | Sun is still tinkering around with the Cypress Semiconductor Corp Ross Systems HyperSparc chip , having apparently not found a home for it yet : in benchmarks , the part outpaced the SuperSparc but by how much remains a mystery ; of course third parties people could buy the chip from Cypress direct and do their own MBus upgrades for Suns . |
| 18 | But so far they have not found a cause or a cure . |
| 19 | He had not found a replacement for Lady Cross , he had just had to pay more than £40,000 in back rent and new lease arrangements and the business was not doing well . |
| 20 | Not found a niche , yet ? ’ asks Sir . |
| 21 | This was not finding a solution to her problem . |
| 22 | A labourer complained , " touching in particular the said churchwardens and overseers of the poor , not finding a house and providing labour or work for the said William Ashton to do in the parish " . |
| 23 | Seeing him in good spirits now , Boswell teased him for his earlier hesitancy , called him ‘ a delicate Londoner … a macaroni ’ , and Johnson defended himself with an unserious disingenuousness by saying he had only feared not finding a horse able enough to carry him . |
| 24 | Again , as with the Primitive Methodists , there were too many men chasing too few churches : 223 ministers in 1901 could not find a church . |
| 25 | The empty oil-drum was awkward to handle : their fingers could not find a grip . |
| 26 | Oh you 'll not find a crayon in this house . |
| 27 | This , when I can not find a word . |
| 28 | Using the machine logs of searches on EXP and CTL , we classified responses to the situation where the system can not find a word into " good " or " bad " . |
| 29 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 30 | At the moment I have to knit the clothes by hand as I can not find a machine knitting pattern for a 12″ doll ( it is not a teenage doll ) anywhere . |