Example sentences of "[noun pl] was find to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The sound quality of the tapes was found to be unexpectedly high . |
| 4 | THE MOST important Khmer and Thai sculptures were withdrawn from Sotheby 's major sale of Asian art yesterday after one of the pieces was found to be a fake . |
| 5 | In cases where the assumption of equal variances was found to be unreasonable an approximate version of the two sample t test was adopted . |
| 6 | The concentration of YCV-309 reducing by 50% platelet activating factor induced aggregation of human or rabbit platelets was found to be 10 - 7 M and this concentration was used in the in vitro studies on the dispersed pancreatic acini . |
| 7 | The Solomon Islands health ministry has declared a water disaster in Honiara , the capital , after the tap water supplied by one of the city 's four water sources was found to be highly contaminated . |
| 8 | Our laboratory has recently shown significant disparity between ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease in terms of IgG subclass production in the mucosal lesion ; the proportion of IgG1 immunocytes was found to be higher in ulcerative colitis than in Crohn 's colitis , while the reverse was true for the IgG2 cell fraction . |
| 9 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 10 | We demonstrated this statistically ( J. Milroy and Harris , 1980 ) : the data in table 5.5 , were subjected to the chi-squared test , and the difference between the distributions of meat items and mate items was found to be very highly significant . |
| 11 | Percentage loss of prey from tawny owl pellets was found to be greater in summer than in winter ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and this could relate both to the greater numbers of immature rodents taken as prey , the bones of which are less mineralized and therefore easier to digest ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and to the likelihood of the birds producing the pellets being themselves immature In the case of the great horned owl it has been found that the stomach pH in immature birds is lower than that of adults ( Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) and there is therefore greater destruction of bone and loss of prey . |
| 12 | The pattern of cell divisions was found to be invariant , every normal worm going through exactly the same pattern of cleavages to form the body . |
| 13 | Unfortunately it turned out to be somewhat of an anti-climax when a rubber dinghy with two occupants was found to be from a Fishery Protection vessel , the two officers concerned were landing to attend a wedding . |
| 14 | The overriding emphasis in all this work was on the ‘ network ’ , which in silicates was found to be made of regular chains or layers of SiO4 molecules sharing common oxygens . |
| 15 | The long-established tendency for national populations to become more concentrated in large metropolitan centres and their surrounding hinterlands was found to be interrupted , if not broken : major cities were losing population not just from their older inner areas but from their whole city regions , while more remote rural areas with a history of depopulation began to record population growth for the first time for decades ( Morrison and Wheeler , 1976 ; Vining and Strauss , 1977 ; Vining and Kontuly , 1978 ; Brown and Wardwell , 1980 ; Fielding , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | The Auditor General 's criticism of the excessive overlap between shifts , which in some hospitals was found to be too generous to allow only for handover and meal breaks , could be largely countered by establishing the correct balance of staff employed full-time with others employed on a part-time basis . |
| 17 | The most important factor in determining whether an accident victim obtains damages for injuries was found to be access to advice , both pre-legal and legal , which may be offered without it even being sought . |
| 18 | The non completion rate of non-standard entry mature students was found to be 15.2% which was lower than the corresponding figure for mature students who satisfied the general entry requirement which was 21.7% . |
| 19 | A MIDWIFE who delivered 42 babies and was present at other births was found to be HIV positive , a health chief confirmed yesterday . |
| 20 | The relationship between these two estimators was found to be unstable across shares and over time , suggesting that the fixed weighting scheme used in the Garman and Klass estimator may not be optimal in reality . |
| 21 | A complex , migmatised metasedimentary sequence with calcsilicates and metavolcanic layers was found to be intruded by a synkinematic porphyritic granite . |
| 22 | In two large and representative necropsy studies the cumulative incidence of prostate cancer over all ages was found to be 32.9% and 18.2% . |
| 23 | This result is in contrast to one recent study of 11 twin pairs ( 5 monozygotic ) where none of the co-twins was found to be concordant for anorexia nervosa . |
| 24 | The variance within subjects and within biopsy samples was found to be higher for the BrdU method than the PCNA method , but the variance within crypts was equal ( Table II ) . |
| 25 | Unstimulated PAF actvity of control , Crohn 's disease , and ulcerative colitis epithelial cells was found to be similar to that of lamina propria mononuclear cells when epithelial and mononuclear cells were compared . |
| 26 | In Aitken v. Motherwell and Wishaw Licensing Court , 1071 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 25 , it was held that a licensing court had no powers to make policy or blanket decisions ( see Re Findlay [ 1985 ] A.C. 318 ) , and in Keith v. Dunfermline Town Council , 1068 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 51 , the refusal of a permit for amusements with prizes on general grounds was found to be unreasonable . |