Example sentences of "were find to be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the facts given were checked and were found to be completely accurate . |
| 2 | As quarrying proceeded , an oblique section of a large cavern was gradually uncovered , and the infill sediments were found to be richly fossiliferous . |
| 3 | The stores were in good condition after 18 years ; cocoa , salt , flour and matches were found to be as good as when first placed there . |
| 4 | In comparison with accountants , bank managers , NHS doctors and estate agents , they were found to be as easy to talk to as bank managers and easier to talk to than all the others bar NHS doctors , to be easier to understand than accountants and estate agents , to be more efficient than accountants and estate agents , to be more hardworking than accountants , bank managers and estate agents , to be as dependable as bank managers and more dependable than accountants and estate agents , to be as up-to-date as accountants and more up-to-date than estate agents . |
| 5 | In a study comparing outpatient with domiciliary treatment , non-medical therapists ( one nurse and one social worker ) were found to be as effective as psychiatrists ( Hawton et al. 1981a ) . |
| 6 | Catering & Allied took presentations from half a dozen systems suppliers , and put three possibles on trial , but the two others were found to be too complex for the company 's purposes . |
| 7 | However , the we have recently had to incur extra expenditure because the road that were put in looking at one hundred er er were found to be too high especially for the services and er place er committee which er throughout that it was very difficult but apparatus you know moving fire . |
| 8 | One of a batch of large bogie cars , delivered to Gravesend where they were found to be too large , also found its way onto the Aurelia Road site , to be tried out when the line opened . |
| 9 | The Germans and the Italians , by contrast , were found to be more negative , and the Mexicans inconsistent . |
| 10 | Hence vertical perspective cues provide the only consistent and reliable information about the distance to the surface and these were found to be more effective in practice for depth and size scaling . |
| 11 | Attitudes towards marriage with a member of a different nationality , for instance , were found to be more favourable among the urban population ( an increasing proportion of the total ) than among their rural counterparts . |
| 12 | They were found to be more satisfactory . |
| 13 | Boys who were caned at school for smoking were found to be more likely to increase their smoking than those not caned . |
| 14 | Women were found to be more likely than men to poison themselves after receiving psychotropics , and patients aged between 15 and 29 years had the highest rates . |
| 15 | Those who coped less effectively , and allowed themselves to become trapped into unsatisfactory lifestyles , were found to be more likely to become depressed , perhaps because they had reduced their chances of achieving a dependable , intimate relationship with their husband , or increased their chances of stressful lives . |
| 16 | In other species such as S.cerevisiae ( 6 ) , S.pombe ( 7 ) or Dictyostelium ( 8 ) , the repeated units were found to be more heterogeneous . |
| 17 | Characteristics which were found to be statistically significant in their relation to manufacturing employment change were deemed to be contributory causes of it . |
| 18 | By the end of the war , the bodies of these cars were found to be very worn and loose . |
| 19 | The forces were found to be very small and use very little of the embryo 's energy . |
| 20 | The rates of metabolism of butyrate ( Fig 2 ) and of glutamine were found to be roughly linear for at least three hours . |