Example sentences of "[was/were] later [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accounts of some 70 of the refugees being murdered near the shore by an armed gang and of women being raped were later found to be inaccurate . |
| 2 | But even Ephorus and Timaeus were later found to be superficial informants on them . |
| 3 | His condition was later said to be stable in hospital . |
| 4 | It was later found to be useful to set up separate databases for each functional group , which prevented earlier versions of the full database being corrupted as experiments in sorting and producing reports were carried out . |
| 5 | This was later found to be untrue , as neither of her daughters nor her son received any schooling or tuition of any sort for the five weeks they were away . |
| 6 | Although this was later found to be correct , there was no way of telling how true it was at the time . |
| 7 | Tawell replied that he was short of money , a fact that was later found to be true . |
| 8 | Ironically his most famous expression of the type theory , in a formula for bleaching powder , was later found to be wrong . |