Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] find [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 The disparity between different sized companies mentioned opposite was found to be more pronounced in the software and services sector than for hardware companies .
2 Other students joined in and before long , quite spontaneously , a crowd of some 200 or so was found to be singing lustily , with Leonard as the ecstatic , unselfconscious conductor .
3 Where normality for each group separately was found to be appropriate by using probability plots a two sample t test was used to compare the mean values of each variable of interest between the regulated and random groups .
4 Taking a sodium ion concentration in excess of 119mmol/l as being dangerous , it was found that of the total number of solutions sampled from unions in Phase 1 , Phase 2 ( standard ) and Phase 3 ( CRP ) , 14.7% , 18.2% and 25.6% respectively were found to be dangerous .
5 The teeth also were found to be similar to the condition described after 29 months weathering : for a sample of 31 teeth , 25.8 per cent were split ( Fig. 1.6A , B ) and 9.7 per cent were chipped ( Fig. 1.6E ) ; 34.8 per cent of the incisors were broken .
6 I was too young to sign the consent form and when Malc arrived , he also was found to be too young .
7 The discredited test was used since the Seventies to identify impurities , and many owners were given clean bills of health on houses which subsequently were found to be contaminated and are now in danger of collapse .
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