Example sentences of "[was/were] judged to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Out of a group of 80 patients with Crohn 's disease treated with elemental diet 48% were judged to be unsuitable for the food exclusion study .
2 As Table 5 shows , 66 per cent of the investigations conducted alone by the Team resulted in partial or complete substantiation , 20 per cent were judged to be unsubstantiated and well intentioned and 14 per cent were unsubstantiated and suspected of being maliciously intended .
3 Middlesbrough motorists were slightly more safety conscious , 65pc of the tyres checked were judged to be illegal and 10pc had sidewall damage .
4 Serials were judged to be weekly productions , often year-round in production , that would always end on a note prompting the viewer to tune in again next week to watch the continuation .
5 There is no doubt that in the past this is where depreciation accounting has floundered , as an addition to the existing system : local taxes were judged to be incapable of bearing the additional burden .
6 Environmental pressure groups , such as the Sierra Club , have used this right on several occasions to press the EPA to take action : for example , environmental groups argued through the courts that Congress intended the EPA regularly to issue air quality standards for pollutants that were judged to be widespread and hazardous to public health .
7 The unity of the New Testament , the fact that it contains not every Christology , but only those which were judged to be faithful to the original testimony , reflect the origin of the gospel in the one unique person of Jesus ( Newbigin 1978:176 ) .
8 On 67 per cent of the farms there was no primary school , and only 5 per cent had adult literacy classes , of which only one-third were judged to be satisfactory .
9 The main findings were that the continuations were judged less acceptable when the pronoun 's antecedent was introduced by the verb ( 54 versus 92% ) and that even when the continuations were judged to be acceptable the judgements were made more slowly ( 2281 versus 1871 ms ) .
10 Those retained were judged to be free of accusations of corruption , although questions were immediately asked about Ricardo Fiuza , the Social Action Minister who , in violation of the electoral law prohibiting donations to individuals , had admitted receiving US$100,000 from the Brazilian Banking Federation to finance his 1990 re-election campaign to the Chamber of Deputies .
11 The proposed tax reform was judged to be crucial for IMF approval of a US$2,000 million standby loan , and for agreements with commercial creditor banks on the restructuring of the US$52,000 million commercial debt .
12 Speaker 12 used Creole syntax and phonology and was judged to be black by the majority of respondents , just as they had judged Speaker 2 ( = 11 ) to be black in her " Creole " guise .
13 Masefield 's choice of his central characters , at least in his later novels , was always a little unexpected , and there is a particular piquancy in the seemingly inappropriate nature , as a romantic hero , of Chisholm Harker , nicknamed Sard ‘ because he was judged to be sardonic ’ and defined as a proud , reticent , austere man .
14 Depreciation may be charged , if the bridge was judged to be depreciable .
15 Parental control , relating to restrictions and rules for behaviour , was judged to be low when supervision was so negligent that the child was left more or less to do as she pleased .
16 ‘ Male Ventriloquism ’ was judged to be good work and discounted by the examiners as probably largely by Roland , which was doubly unjust , since he had refused to look at it , and did not agree with its central proposition , which was that Randolph Henry Ash neither liked nor understood women , that his female speakers were constructs of his own fear and aggression , that even the poem-cycle , Ask to Embla , was the work , not of love but of narcissism , the poet addressing his Anima .
17 There has also been criticism of members of my family for behaviour which was judged to be unseemly for people whose responsibility is to set a good example .
18 That old woman across the landing who was judged to be clear thinking ; so much so , even at her age , that she visited the factory every Friday and went over the books with Henry .
19 Expression from all GGF transfections was judged to be comparable by northern blot analysis of RNA .
20 If the home was judged to be satisfactory , the prospective foster parent , or ‘ befriender ’ as the RCM preferred to call them , was given some reading matter to prepare for the day .
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