Sentence examples for could be mislaid from inspiring English sources

Non-responses to the initial contact will be followed up on one occasion by research network staff to compensate for the possibility that letters and messages could be mislaid due to memory difficulties.

And the coupons represent a document with value that can be mislaid.

Envelopes containing greeting cards can be mislaid or accidentally thrown away.

Aunt Cissy, at the stove, set down iron pots enough for a dozen meals, and Phyllis, sent to fetch a special utensil from an alcove in the corner of the kitchen, came back to report that it had been mislaid "since the last time" and could not be found, so that Aunt Cissy had to put down her cooking spoon and go herself to search.

A report by the law firm Freshfields into allegations that a payment of €6.7m was made from the German FA (DFB) to Fifa in 2005 said that a lack of evidence – some of which appeared to have been mislaid or destroyed – meant that it could not definitively reach a conclusion.

His confession had probably been mislaid in the police records office.

He mails the film to the manufacturer but it is mislaid in the developing room and never found.

There isn't actually a death involving a purloined letter – although you sometimes worry that the script has been mislaid.

After taking strong medication for three months, he lost the lot when his luggage was mislaid at Heathrow.

The second is mislaid property — something that the owner has hidden with the intention of recovering, but has then forgotten.

Some money is mislaid, a relationship begins, then flounders after mutual infidelity.