Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [be] found [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 35,000 plant species were carefully screened for anti-cancer properties , and yew bark extract was found to be effective against tumours in mice . |
| 2 | While a higher proportion of temporary workers than of the total labour force were found to be women workers ( 6 per cent compared to 41 per cent ) , temporary workers were also ‘ considerably younger ’ than the generality of workers , largely because a high proportion of the former are still teenagers . |
| 3 | At the French Pyreneean cave of Niaux a bison painting in the Salon Noir was found to be 12,890 BP plus or minus 160 years old . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The site of maximally changed local blood flow was found to be in area 44 . |
| 6 | I am not aware of the details but the compulsory incident reporting system was found to be wanting and so was changed to a voluntary one . |
| 7 | As quarrying proceeded , an oblique section of a large cavern was gradually uncovered , and the infill sediments were found to be richly fossiliferous . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Histamine receptors , indirectly measured by cAMP accumulation were found to be present on MKN45 , MKN45G but not C170 or LoVo ( Table III ) . |
| 10 | Last season £18,000 in bar takings were found to be missing but no culprit was ever found . |
| 11 | Considering " all-cause cardiovascular mortality , " the exercise test was found to be moderately sensitive and moderately specific . |
| 12 | No safety limits have been set for sediment contamination , but the level of lead in the North Sea was found to be 50 times greater than the global average . |
| 13 | NUCLEAR Electric and the Hartlepool power station management are to be congratulated on their openness in reporting in their newsletter No 123 that a back-up cooling pump had failed a routine test because a fuel inlet was found to be isolated . |
| 14 | The daily faecal bile acid excretion was found to be significantly higher in the polyp group compared with cancer patients , while the difference between the polyp group and controls was of borderline significance ( Table III ) . |
| 15 | HMI methodology was found to be inadequate and the research findings of Bennett 's team contradict HMI ‘ findings ’ . |
| 16 | A fuel inlet isolating valve was found to be shut , putting a back-up cooling pump out of action . |
| 17 | Blood was cross-matched and was in fact needed for a transfusion prior to surgery because Mr Reynolds was found to be anaemic . |
| 18 | Even dynamic centre-forward Kenny Mentle was found to be flat-footed and short-sighted . |
| 19 | By this time , therefore , the Forest Eyre was found to be a cumbersome and ineffectual engine , and was allowed to fall into desuetude : only two short eyres were held in the southern forests during the remainder of the century — in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire in 1348 , and in Hampshire and Wiltshire in 1355 . |
| 20 | One particular station , at Peach Bottom in Pennsylvania , had actually been officially stopped from operating after the control room staff were found to be falling asleep on the job . |
| 21 | Point counting can be done by preparing transparent overlay coordinate grids at various sizes ; eye strain is found to be less than with a petrographic microscope . |
| 22 | AN ALERT has been issued to 470 patients after a member of staff at a West Midlands hospital was found to be suffering from tuberculosis . |
| 23 | The Le Mans officials were blameless as their safety measures were found to be more than adequate , and the speed at which the injured were taken to hospital was also exemplary . |
| 24 | The RNA polymerases were found to be between 15% and 20% active using a titration with the strong T7A1 promoter at 9 nM in gel retardation assay ( described below ) . |
| 25 | One minute , Mrs Doyle was found to be going along with arrangements to play it on a nine hole course and , soon after , it was cancelled altogether . |
| 26 | As previously reported , the serum gastrin concentration was found to be high in the renal failure patients compared with those with normal renal function . |
| 27 | The ceremonial chains used by Cleveland County Council chairman Ted Wood and his wife Ruth was found to be gone just before noon yesterday . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Later 32 season ticket slips were found to be forgeries . |
| 30 | 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 . |