Example sentences of "found [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also found that being on my own , in my middle 30's , I was considered a risk ! |
| 2 | Many people found that being disabled helped to break down professional barriers . |
| 3 | A few people found that being disabled had the effect of trivialising patients ' problems . |
| 4 | Yeah that 's a big and my and that stuck out the bucket like that , well going over the top we had a hood over the top tumbler to stop the flashing , so my father stopped , thinking that was a bit of wood and were gon na break the top of the tumbler , so he stop and out and scrubbed it and found that was this bone and I think if my memory serve me right that 's in the , the Fleet Museum now . |
| 5 | At first I thought someone climbed the wall and put them there , but on the night I was chased by Gaveston 's dogs , I found that was an impossible feat . |
| 6 | But as I went on reading I found that was n't what Clem was telling me at all . ’ |
| 7 | Well , is , is he saying that these are the , these are the things that our religion needs in order to , to be a strong religion , I mean it , she said you know something that I found interesting was what Maska Reece has said about erm the ability of the minority to , to sort of overcome repression |
| 8 | Tonight her skirt was rucked up almost to her waist and she found this was even better than usual because the bulge fitted neatly between her thighs and touched even deeper chords of excitement . |
| 9 | When he found this was n't good enough for the police , the result of speaking the truth being the lesser of two evils , he gave the name of a woman he had visited . |
| 10 | And I found months and months after that most of the boys that got on there had their fathers work there , who went to the office , or asked the Butties , they used to talk about Butties in the pit , and I found this was short for deputy . |
| 11 | It was a game they could win only by losing ; every possibility checked and found empty was a point gained , and with every one discarded their spirits rose towards optimism . |
| 12 | What they found liberating was Surrealism 's sanctioning of an art based on personal reality ; and in their quest to express this interior landscape these women went directly to source : to their own bodies . |
| 13 | What I found appalling was £1 million being spent on an emotive , misleading campaign . |
| 14 | My name is as you know and company that found these was which was my Uncle and , well erm , about Mr Yeltsin and Mr Gorbachev to lead a Russian political book and I could which was the name of the company today . |
| 15 | He obviously looked ill , but what I found terrible was the look of starvation on his emaciated body and face . |
| 16 | While training schoolchildren to deal with threatening situations , they found many were making the wrong decisions . |
| 17 | The Which ? survey found many were providing a limited holiday-selection and biased information , thanks to a virtual stranglehold by the major tour operators . |
| 18 | The Which ? survey found many were providing a limited holiday-selection and biased information , thanks to a virtual stranglehold by the major tour operators . |
| 19 | ‘ So you left the Club about ten past eight , went home , found all was well , and went straight back ? ’ |
| 20 | A second measure which Brown and his colleagues found useful was the length of the longest utterance in a speech sample , referred to as the ‘ Upper Bound ’ . |
| 21 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |