Example sentences of "were found to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teeth also were found to be similar to the condition described after 29 months weathering : for a sample of 31 teeth , 25.8 per cent were split ( Fig. 1.6A , B ) and 9.7 per cent were chipped ( Fig. 1.6E ) ; 34.8 per cent of the incisors were broken . |
| 2 | No words were found to be allowable in these positions , so instead the top-ranked string is stored . |
| 3 | After ultrasound scanning including a functional assessment , 220 ( 78% ) patients were found to be suitable for percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 4 | Patients with stones of any composition , size and number contained in a thin walled gall bladder with a fasting volume greater than 15 ml were found to be suitable for percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 5 | The external services employed by the companies were found to be inadequate by 24% of the sample — specifically |
| 6 | The situation is more encouraging in the Netherlands , where parents were found to be involved in the care process ‘ to some extent ’ at least in 90 per cent of cases ; intensive involvement is , however , limited to 39 per cent of cases ( Ploeg and Scholte , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | In one study , some of the patients also had chemical sensitivities , and when the results for these patients alone were considered , 90 per cent were found to be deficient in a particular enzyme system . |
| 8 | According to many accounts , middle-class complacency was severely shocked by the evidence of the children 's condition : in Newcastle , for example , of 31,000 children registering for evacuation , 13% were found to be deficient in footwear and 21 % deficient in clothing ; in Scotland , 39% of children turned up in clothing that was ‘ bad or deplorable ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ She also told me that Jamie and Gary were found to be unsuitable as bone-marrow donors for Donna . |
| 10 | The analyses that were constructed for these frescos were found to be useful in the examination of more famous works . |
| 11 | With young children , a high proportion of questions seems to be beneficial ( Nelson 1973 ) , but in slightly older children at pre-school , questions were found to be detrimental to the maintenance of conversational exchanges ( Wood et al . |
| 12 | And in a study of births to girls aged 12–16 in hospitals of Liverpool , England , variations in the incidence of anaemia were found to be attributable to social class , not age . |
| 13 | Random insertions were found to be variable in their effect on timing . |
| 14 | Histamine receptors , indirectly measured by cAMP accumulation were found to be present on MKN45 , MKN45G but not C170 or LoVo ( Table III ) . |
| 15 | But as the therapy continued , Henry had observed , others were found to be guilty of the capital crime of blocking Elinor 's creativity . |
| 16 | Changes in firm valuation were found to be consistent with the tax-based models of capital structure . |
| 17 | In addition , such lobes were found to be negative for the macrophage markers 5C6 and F4/80 ( ref.18 ) and the reticular fibroblast marker ERTR7 ( ref.16 ) . |
| 18 | Table VI summarises the number of subjects in each subgroup who were accepted for respite and day sitting services and who were found to be eligible for the mobility and attendance allowances before and after the interview . |
| 19 | During the study period three patients were found to be sensitive to the elemental diet formula used to induce remission and a further patient proved to have profound salicylate sensitivity . |
| 20 | Similarly , cross-references which were not satisfied or were found to be ambiguous during the earlier stage of computer processing may need to be corrected or updated . |
| 21 | For example , a judge who acquires a reputation among his seniors for being ‘ soft ’ in certain types of cases where the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Chief Justice , the Master of the Rolls and other senior judges favour a hard line is as likely to damage his promotion prospects as he would if his appointment were found to be unfortunate on other more obvious grounds . |
| 22 | On the other hand , utilities were found to be insensitive to both unanticipated inflation and the unanticipated changes in the expected real long-term rate of growth of sales because this sector is highly regulated . |