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

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1 This product was subsequently found to be prostaglandin H 2 and the unstable endoperoxides prostaglandin G 2 and prostaglandin H 2 were found to be released during platelet aggregation ( Hamberg et al , 1974 ) .
2 Similarly , following acute ligation of the coronary artery in dogs , high levels of thromboxane B 2 were found to be associated with cardiac arrhythmias ( Coker et al , 1981 ) .
3 Untranslated sequences upstream of the coding regions 1 and 2 were found to be unrelated , and attempts to identify transcripts that contain linked 1 and 2 sequences by library screening or through RT-PCR experiments were unsuccessful ( data not shown ) .
4 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 .
5 Many were found to be dead and the total casualties were reported to be about a hundred .
6 By 1936 , the year of Rowntree 's second survey in York , 15 per cent of the poor were found to be old people , but this was still adjudged to be a far less significant cause of poverty than unemployment or low wages .
7 Most of the mergers actually referred to the MMC were found to be against the public interest , and the effects of the legislation went beyond the cases actually referred .
8 One in five were found to be under twenty and ‘ a quarter of all teenagers in the labour force work on a temporary basis ’ ( B. Casey , ‘ The extent and nature of temporary employment in Great Britain ’ , Policy Studies , vol .
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