Example sentences of "[verb] be find [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Information about the defences of the Roman town at Worcester is at present limited , but a considerable ditch has been found similar to those associated elsewhere with the late fourth century , and there are indications of earlier systems .
2 There is no precise form for such a statement , but the following structure has been found useful in practice :
3 The hierarchical structure of local viewdata has been found useful in the teaching of classification and in the sorting of ideas from the general to the specific which has proved helpful in note making , especially in the graphic form .
4 Such cross college and interdisciplinary pressure has been found invaluable in replacing passivity and resistance to change by enthusiasm and a desire to innovate and improve .
5 DAVE BASSETT has been found innocent of allegations of obscene behaviour at Chelsea last month .
6 Dave Bassett has been found innocent of allegations of obscene behaviour at Chelsea last month .
7 Its preferred approach was more informative reporting of disciplinary and appeal committee hearings — until now it has only released details of the charges the accused has been found guilty of , and the final ruling .
8 Mark Braley , the former Coopers & Lybrand trainee who attempted to sell confidential BCCI documents while on secondment to the Serious Fraud Office , has been found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice .
9 In each case the appellant has been found guilty of contempt of court and has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment .
10 Mr. Roth contended that it is inconceivable that a party who has been held to be merely negligent should be required to contribute to the damages payable by a party who has been found guilty of fraud .
11 Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council has been found guilty of maladministration leading to injustice by the ombudsman and must pay £1,250 compensation for failing to assess and design adaptations to the home of a disabled man .
12 A motorist involved in a crash on the M-four motorway in which ten people died has been found guilty of careless driving .
13 Ali Shoukeir has been found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of
14 The nurse , Beverley Allitt , has been found guilty of murdering two children in her care .
15 A nurse has been found guilty of assaulting a blind woman of eighty eight .
16 A former financial consultant has been found guilty of two charges of fraud .
17 A former financial consultant who lost almost two million pounds of his clients ' money has been found guilty of seven charges of theft and fraud .
18 A local authority has been found guilty of maladministration for not telling residents before giving planning permission for floodlights at a rugby stadium .
19 A driving examiner has been found guilty of indecently assaulting four women while they were taking their tests .
20 A man serving life for murdering a policeman has been found guilty of beating up a prison officer at a high security jail .
21 A former Ministry of Defence worker , has been found guilty of accepting one and a half million pounds in backhanders from arms companies , in what 's thought to be the biggest ever corruption case .
22 But he has been found guilty of committing serious sexual offences , and given a conditional discharge .
23 A trainer and breeder of horses has been found guilty on cruelty charges .
24 Do n't accept a wood treatment guarantee as proof that infestation has been eliminated ; reinfestation has been found rife in a roof space only five years after it had been treated .
25 THE daughter of Liverpool-born sex entrepreneur Paul Raymond has been found dead at her luxury home .
26 A woman in her thirties has been found dead at her home after a man walked into a police station and said he wanted to talk to detectives .
27 When best-selling author Max Telligan 's secretary , Liz , and his about-to-be-ex-wife Harriet , read that he has been found dead in Munich , they are stunned .
28 LLOYD 'S Name Margaret Jones , 55 , who stood to lose £200,000 , has been found dead in her fume-filled car near her home at Parkhill , South Wales .
29 Ian Spiro , the businessman wanted for questioning after his wife and children were found murdered , has been found dead in the California desert .
30 A MAN has been found dead in a police cell at Greenock , Strathclyde Police said last night .
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