Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] found [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few spots of blood were found near the telephone , Mr Palmer said . |
| 2 | Significant differences in laminin concentrations were found between the Child 's grades ( p=0.009 ) and between patients and controls ( p<0.0001 ) . |
| 3 | Most of the choughs were found in the Republic of Ireland , with 904 pairs . |
| 4 | Both human Alu and HPV 16 DNA sequences were found in the type II foci of CC-M2T cells by Southern blot hydribisation . |
| 5 | The scythemakers were found in the north Worcestershire parishes of Belbroughton , Chaddesley Corbett and Clent , the lockmakers worked mainly in Wolverhampton and its chapelries of Wednesfield and Willenhall , and the bit makers were mostly Walsall men . |
| 6 | No manifestations of lymphoma were found outside the oesophagus . |
| 7 | The final remedy was found in the convoy system . |
| 8 | On Tuesday morning , Falconer was found at the base of the tower , his neck broke , his head shattered . ’ |
| 9 | Some digestion was found on the bone from all the carnivore scat collections , and the most distinctive feature of this was the rounding of the broken ends of limb bones . |
| 10 | The photograph was found in an album made up by the late Sqn Ldr G Beeby . |
| 11 | Similarly , age was associated with an increase in H pylori prevalence , but the peak of H pylori positive subjects was found in the group aged between 50 and 60 years , whereas the rate tended to be lower in older subjects . |
| 12 | Another piece was found on the substrate . |
| 13 | David Cairns , from Renfrewshire , was taken to Stirling Royal Infirmary early on Thursday after the car was found on a track leading to a farm near Balfron in Stirlingshire . |
| 14 | Then there is Christine Villemin , whose 4-year-old son Gregory was found near the village in the Vosges where he lived , floating in a river with his hands tied behind his back . |
| 15 | In all seven necropsy cases , amyloid was found in every site of the gastrointestinal tract including the oesophagus , stomach , small , and large intestines . |
| 16 | Among all the debris , a grey sodden teddy bear was found near a woman 's black shoe . |
| 17 | Item No 3 : this key was found in a quarry within the enclosure and seems to have been deliberately buried near an old tree . |
| 18 | A hoard of Anglo-Saxon pennies in silver was found on the farm of Machrie , Kildalton , in 1850 . |
| 19 | On re-examination of the carotid bifurcation with carotid duplex ultrasound , a large smooth plaque was found in the bulb , causing a 30% stenosis , but parallel with the carotid bulb wall , explaining why the size of the plaque was not detected on angiography . |
| 20 | A plaque was found in the clubhouse basement that recorded the club members of 1787 . |
| 21 | There was excitement the night before the Sale opened , when what was thought to be Winston Churchill 's autograph was found on the flyleaf of an old maggot-eaten book , which had found its way to Edinburgh , from a North-West frontier War early this century . |
| 22 | Late that evening , Corbett was found by a servant sent by Selkirk , who announced in broad Scots that the knight would be grateful if Corbett joined him in the outer bailey near the main gate . |
| 23 | Jay Disley was spotted by the police looking in through a broken window and his accomplice Simon Brooklyn was found in the kitchen of the house in Berrybank Crescent . |
| 24 | It had earlier heard that the legionella bug was found in the centre 's hot water system after Mrs Ormerod was a patient . |
| 25 | No additional B cell hypersensitive sites were found in the region upstream of Ea DH V. ‘ Long ’ ( c ) and ‘ Short ’ ( d ) refers to the constructs isolated from cosmid 32.1 using the indicated restriction enzyme digests . |
| 26 | It claimed matches and more than 30 lighters were found in the house in places accessible to the children . |
| 27 | The cave infill at Westbury-sub-Mendip was uncovered during quarrying in 1969 when bones were found in the quarry workings and shown to local experts . |
| 28 | The only trouble was that in the course of compiling the second inventory the missing artworks were found in a cupboard in one of the museum 's corridors . |
| 29 | According to the Wall Street Journal , former IBM Corp chairman John Akers is ‘ still technically an IBM employee , though he has lost his title , his board seat and his office at IBM 's Armonk , New York headquarters — he and his secretary have been quietly relocated to an IBM building in Stamford , Connecticut ; ’ we seem to recall something similar happening to an editor of the late lamented Datalink — first he was told he was no longer editor , but that there was a desk in Computing 's office — until Computing decided it needed it , whereupon a desk was found in the library , whereupon he resigned . |
| 30 | An inscription bearing this monogram was found in a tomb at Pompeii , dating from two and a half centuries before . |