Example sentences of "could be found [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite last-minute manoeuvring by both sides , no compromise could be found between the mayor 's reported willingness to plead guilty to one or more of the 11 misdemeanour charges in return for a non-custodial sentence , and the US Attorney 's Office 's insistence that any plea bargain should include at least one of the three felony charges of lying to the grand jury . |
| 2 | No link could be found with the Oxfordshire couple . |
| 3 | Clare baked nothing that could be found at the local baker and charged what she considered exorbitant prices , which people seemed happy to pay in cash . |
| 4 | But he added that unless a buyer could be found for the debt-ridden club , which made a £700,000 loss last year , they could join the dubious ranks of former Football League clubs . |
| 5 | David Bigg of the Braintree and Witham Rail Users Group said he was surprised that extra money could be found for the roads when the railways were desperately in need of extra investment . |
| 6 | During October Year 41 , Sour Ltd was notified that , due to the death of Crowt Ltd 's managing director , who held 30% of the Ordinary Shares , the remaining directors were considering liquidating Crowt Ltd unless a buyer could be found for the shares previously held by the managing director . |
| 7 | But as the recession deepened , no backers could be found for the scheme which had already cost over £1 million . |
| 8 | But as the recession deepened , no backers could be found for the scheme which had already cost over £1 million . |
| 9 | The operation of trolleys and pantographs together was not without its problems , and it was said that the great used on the collector plates could be found on the overhead line as far as Lytham ! |
| 10 | Long before there was the clatter of rotor blades above PE , a major base could be found on the southern edge of the airfield , this was 42 Air School ( AS ) , established at south End , in 1940 , and opened ‘ for business ’ in April 1940 as part of the joint Air Training Scheme . |
| 11 | She had asked William about getting Aggie a cat but he had no idea where a tomcat could be found on the quick and he shook his head . |
| 12 | Many other tasks were performed by Blacks , and female slaves could be found on the trains carrying water , attending lady travellers , and selling fruit . |
| 13 | From almost every other walk of life a way could be found to the city patriciate ; and even the Jew could come there if he would submit to conversion . |
| 14 | As yet no better solution could be found to the problem that there were more ‘ workers ’ than work available . |
| 15 | He must suspect that the bomb , or the other shapechanger , could be found within the station . |
| 16 | Mr Mulrine said more parking space could be found within the hospital grounds but it would involve ‘ laying tarmac next to the cenotaph ’ . |
| 17 | No one could be found after the sale to say that it was crazy to pay sums of up to £40,000 for garnitures which until recently were as deeply unfashionable in the English house as the aspidistra . |
| 18 | Jeanne and the baby were to follow as soon as a wet-nurse could be found near the capital . |
| 19 | On two separate occasions , when questioned about the cost of implementing some proposals under the Maastricht treaty , the Leader of the Opposition said that the money could be found from the reform of the common agricultural policy . |
| 20 | The series did not have a uniform intellectual line and many varieties of opinion could be found in the contributors . |
| 21 | No comments whatsoever could be found in the first soundings of reactions ‘ which even provided so much as a hint that some or other people 's comrade was in agreement with the attempted assassination ’ . |
| 22 | Again no parasites could be found in the blood , but they appeared later , even if a course of quinine had been given in the meantime . |
| 23 | More complex structures were revealed in crystals , and precise proportional relationships could be found in the arrangement of leaves and branches and the spirals of growing shoots . |
| 24 | SO WHEN THE DUST cleared after Armageddon , what meaning could be found in the ruins ? |
| 25 | The US authorities instigated 1,551 cases , but of these only 45 per cent were prosecuted as criminal ; the majority were dealt with as civil matters even though little difference could be found in the types of anti-trust behaviour these corporations committed . |
| 26 | Such virtues were also likely to appeal to many people of working age , especially if employment could be found in the growing service industries that had themselves decentralized . |
| 27 | The sample of 120 households was therefore divided into three matched lists of 40 addresses , A , B and C. Each provided a coverage of the major social and ethnic variations in residential pattern similar to that which could be found in the original list of 120 . |
| 28 | A mitochondrial mutant strain of D.subobscura has two mitochondrial genome populations ( heteroplasmy ) : the first ( 20–30% of the population , 15.9 kb ) is the same as could be found in the wild type ; the second ( 70–80% of the population , 11 kb ) has lost by deletion several genes coding for complex I and III subunits , and four tRNAs . |
| 29 | Departmental libraries have had some degree of autonomy in the past , and copies of theses could be found in the departmental libraries in Geology ( for geology , geochemistry , palaeontology , mineralogy , and geophysics ) and Geography ( physical geography , geomorphology , soils , etc . ) . |
| 30 | These examples show that , as in all cases , whether an adjective counts as restrictive or not depends on what exactly is in the mental focus of the speaker on any particular token occasion , and definitely not on any relation of inclusion that might exist between the meanings of the adjective and noun as type elements , such as could be found in the dictionary ( or more accurately between those parts of an external world which might be correlated with the meanings of the adjective and noun ) . |