Example sentences of "might be found [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking that the heart of the mystery might be found on the Brocken in the Harz mountains , he journeyed there in May 1799 . |
| 2 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 3 | A more complex linkage might be found between the disruptions of individual lives and local communities , the extraordinary geographical mobility of individuals , and the sense of ‘ the nation at war ’ as a concrete lived reality . |
| 4 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 5 | Oman is placing an order for three patrol craft with French shipbuilders after weeks of waiting in the hope that a buyer might be found for the Tyneside yard . |
| 6 | Most of these patients died for reasons unrelated to their strange behaviour , and such microscopic abnormalities as might be found in the brain seemed too obscure to account for the disturbance of the mind . |
| 7 | In the summer of 1720 the South Sea Bubble burst , and the dream that El Dorado might be found in the outside world faded a little further , though the Company went on endeavouring to use its Utrecht trading privileges for another thirty years . |
| 8 | A bridge between the legislating church and the law-making king might be found in the role of the clergy who until c. 1290 still dominated the royal judiciary , although by no means were all these men canon lawyers . |
| 9 | Dublin 's culture might be found in the ghost city we half remember , half imagine . |
| 10 | But at least he could , if armed with field sketches , show an animal on a food plant , perhaps ; or depict various species which might be found in the same rockpool or stretch of veldt . |
| 11 | In the more symbolic terms , a damning inditement of medieval culture might be found in the situation and behaviour of the wife . |