Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [be] found to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boys who were caned at school for smoking were found to be more likely to increase their smoking than those not caned . |
| 2 | The presence of moisture was found to be necessary to promote chemical weathering and weaken the rock sufficiently for disintegration to occur . |
| 3 | The average relative abundances of all skeletal elements for three species of owl were found to be as follows : great horned owl , 51.5 per cent ; barn owl , 62.7 per cent ; and screech owl , 46.5 per cent ( Dodson & Wexlar , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | The rates of metabolism of butyrate ( Fig 2 ) and of glutamine were found to be roughly linear for at least three hours . |
| 5 | Monitoring work has been carried out and levels of pollution were found to be well below the danger level . |
| 6 | Oral and intragastric infusions of beer were found to be potent stimuli of gastric acid secretion , with a response of over 95% of that produced by pentagastrin . |
| 7 | Reproducibility was checked with six biopsy specimens from adjacent sites in a single patient and coefficient of variation was found to be 12% for butyrate metabolism expressed per µg protein per hour and 18% for glutamine metabolism . |
| 8 | In fact , a lack of care was found to be a vulnerability factor in the absence of maternal loss , while the reverse was not true . |
| 9 | And in a study of births to girls aged 12–16 in hospitals of Liverpool , England , variations in the incidence of anaemia were found to be attributable to social class , not age . |
| 10 | Synthetic drugs such as quinacrine and chloroquine , were developed to replace natural quinine but some strains of malaria are found to be resistant and doctors are using quinine again to treat malaria in Vietnam , fortunately , trees grow well in Java which is now the main global source . |
| 11 | The half-life for geophysics was found to be 12 years ; for general geology 13 years , and that for palaeontology was 25 years . |
| 12 | Although a comprehensive study by Shaw ( 1969 ) has shown that increased boldness of print increases legibility for some readers , differences in typography were found to be considerably less significant for younger than for older readers with partial sight . |
| 13 | May these , as we go to still higher energies , in turn be found to be made from still smaller particles ? |
| 14 | It was called prostaglandin , but in time was found to be a mixture of many related substances with very complex chemical and biological properties . |
| 15 | A book in the museum library is just labelled Register and on opening is found to be a register of books lent , almost all of them books for children . |
| 16 | At the same time their insistence on otherness was found to be inseparable from a fear and disavowal of the same , or the proximate . |
| 17 | Age at operation was found to be significant only for the adenoidectomy only group , with those who were older at operation facing a minor disadvantage ( about 2 dB ) between three and five years postoperatively . |
| 18 | Absence from work through sickness was found to be 41 per cent higher in the Health Service and at town and county halls than among private sector firms . |