Example sentences of "can [not/n't] find the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If you own a Star printer , but ca n't find the correct driver in Windows 3.10 , read on . |
2 | ‘ We have jobs that we ca n't fill because we ca n't find the right quality person for them , ’ admits Charles Macleod of Robert Half . |
3 | If you ca n't find the right staff , perhaps you 're looking in the wrong place . |
4 | If you ca n't find the right person to talk to , you could phone one of the numbers at the end of this leaflet . |
5 | We can allow for traffic , bike breakdown , rider ca n't find the right doorway , whatever . |
6 | Hey do you care about you know the other day we were talking about the erm I wanted to get one of the councillors on to talk about this but I I ca n't find the right one . |
7 | Most of us get muddled , most of us ca n't find the right word , most of us ‘ um ’ and ‘ er ’ at various points as we 're talking . |
8 | I had three mirrors , I ca n't find the bleeding things . |
9 | If you ca n't find the particular brand name , find one with a similar % alcohol . |
10 | Erm I 'm half and half I I I go along with Angela in the main that the the kids in , generally speaking the kids that I 've talked to do n't want to put their own input a lot of them do n't want to because , as Angela says , they can not find the appropriate words and some of the others just write some some stuff that I would look at |
11 | Various scientists have therefore proposed that the reason we can not find the hypothetical tenth planet is that there is no such planet at all rather there is , much further out , a black hole . |
12 | It stands to reason that you can not find the right person to do a job unless you know yourself exactly what that job is . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | If we can not find the special legal conventions conventionalism requires , it is defeated in both its interpretive claims and its forward-looking , post-interpretive instructions . |