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

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1 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 .
2 A medical history , electrocardiograph , blood pressure , and standard laboratory findings were obtained before the experiment and were found to be negative or normal Haematocrit was also obtained 24 hours after the experiment .
3 The bags were returned in accordance with diplomatic protocol , and were found to be unopened and untampered with . ’
4 There was really very little to talk about , since they 'd seen each other at breakfast , so conversation became desultory once Irene had told Juliet about the other patients — the hysterectomies , the ovarian cyst as big as a football , and the girl who had come to be sterilised and was found to be pregnant .
5 Their activity created some initial enthusiasm , but was found to be poor compared with quinine .
6 She was taken to the Western Isles Hospital but was found to be dead on arrival .
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