Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] find to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No words were found to be allowable in these positions , so instead the top-ranked string is stored . |
| 2 | In some respects these accounts are similar to those in the experimental situation where key characteristics were found to be a common strategy . |
| 3 | In other species such as S.cerevisiae ( 6 ) , S.pombe ( 7 ) or Dictyostelium ( 8 ) , the repeated units were found to be more heterogeneous . |
| 4 | In addition , such lobes were found to be negative for the macrophage markers 5C6 and F4/80 ( ref.18 ) and the reticular fibroblast marker ERTR7 ( ref.16 ) . |
| 5 | From carbon dioxide preserved in bubbles in ice cores extracted from Antarctica and Greenland , pre-industrial atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were found to be about 280 ppm . |
| 6 | On the other hand , utilities were found to be insensitive to both unanticipated inflation and the unanticipated changes in the expected real long-term rate of growth of sales because this sector is highly regulated . |
| 7 | A recent survey by the Consumers Association ( CA ) showed that a third of the tools hired from 32 randomly selected shops were found to be faulty when examined by experts . |
| 8 | By the end of the war , the bodies of these cars were found to be very worn and loose . |
| 9 | The animals were found to be carrying antibodies against a variant of the hepatitis virus , indigenous to Old World primates , but unknown in the New World outside captivity . |
| 10 | These magnetic anomalies were found to be hundreds of kilometres long and typically 20–30 km across , and it initially seemed that they were caused by alternating bands of weakly and strongly magnetized rocks . |
| 11 | However , others have been content to accept the message in Problems of Social Policy : for example , Peter Gosden , in his detailed study of education in the war , cites Titmuss as the authoritative source on the social consequences of evacuation ; likewise , Raynes Minns concludes that the revelations of the children 's condition ‘ made headlines , and once again , as in 1914 , when the physical condition of army recruits was found to be so poor , war forced a British government to recognise the extremes of poverty and neglect that survived in our cities , and eventually to act by expanding our welfare services ’ . |
| 12 | Lowuse sites were found to be depleted only in nitrogen though the heavily used ones were depleted of potassium and magnesium and possibly of calcium and phosphorus as well . |
| 13 | The situation is more encouraging in the Netherlands , where parents were found to be involved in the care process ‘ to some extent ’ at least in 90 per cent of cases ; intensive involvement is , however , limited to 39 per cent of cases ( Ploeg and Scholte , 1988 ) . |
| 14 | Firstly , positive school experiences were found to be important . |
| 15 | These ratios were found to be mainly associated with recent returns on equity , growth rates and debt/equity ratios . |
| 16 | Only two patients with Crohn 's disease were studied , however , and CD4 + /CD8 + ratios were found to be normal ; similar studies of T cells from inflamed mucosa of patients with Crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis have not showed any significant changes from controls . |
| 17 | It took some time , but after 36 buns and a 40-ounce bottle of whiskey had been used up , the gulls were found to be reacting admirably and appeared to be enjoying the ‘ experiment ’ as much as the engineers . |
| 18 | The state of the fundic wrap can be accurately assessed with the retroflexed endoscope , and shortly after fundoplication 8–9% of wraps were found to be defective . |
| 19 | Three open sprinklers were found to be sufficient to stop even the most rapidly developing fire . |
| 20 | Bird prey completely disappeared , and laboratory mice were found to be more greatly affected than were wood mice . |
| 21 | The external services employed by the companies were found to be inadequate by 24% of the sample — specifically |
| 22 | Members of a random sample of 1000 men aged 65 in 1955 were followed up and the numbers still alive after successive 5-year intervals were found to be as follows : Construct a life table for these men including estimates of life expectancy at the start of successive 5-year age periods . |
| 23 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 24 | Indeed , it was not long before some of the concessions which the British had secured — after considerable persuasive effort on their part — to assist in the postwar reconstruction and conversion of their own economy to peacetime purposes were found to be at risk . |
| 25 | In nineteen ninety one , twelve thousand eight hundred and twelve workers were found to be underpaid . |
| 26 | Later 32 season ticket slips were found to be forgeries . |
| 27 | Two-thirds of the statements were found to be biased : this was particularly evident when developers had not used outside consultants to prepare the statements , and where the developer was also the planning authority . |
| 28 | The sound quality of the tapes was found to be unexpectedly high . |
| 29 | THE MOST important Khmer and Thai sculptures were withdrawn from Sotheby 's major sale of Asian art yesterday after one of the pieces was found to be a fake . |
| 30 | In cases where the assumption of equal variances was found to be unreasonable an approximate version of the two sample t test was adopted . |