Example sentences of "find [art] [noun pl] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing of the walls or vaulting remained intact , but we found the substructures to be choked with debris fallen from above , including several more pieces of the poem and various richly carved capitals , cornices , and piers . |
| 2 | On my short acquaintance with Victorian Cichlids I found the males to be single-mindedly aggressive when breeding , but their harassment of tank-mates soon diminishes after spawning . |
| 3 | Clinton 's explanation for this brazen reversal of his campaign promises — that once elected he found the figures to be worse than he had thought — may be glibness on a heroic scale , yet the increases have the virtue of consistency with the rest of the package . |
| 4 | Note that there is no implication that this ‘ quality check ’ found the modules to be of particularly high quality : merely that they were fit for the purpose intended for the baseline . |
| 5 | At last some passed me with books ; I stopped them , and found the books to be Bibles : it was all clear now , they were going to a week-day preaching , and shortly after , as the road wound down a glen over a burn , I met the Free Church minister on his way to the place of meeting . |
| 6 | Section 5 prevents this practice completely , by providing that avoidance of liability for defective goods caused by negligence of the person involved in their manufacture or distribution can not be excluded by a term or notice in a " guarantee " of goods ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption as against a person who has found the goods to be defective while he was using them , or while they were in his possession , otherwise than exclusively for the purposes of a business . |
| 7 | One may indeed go further , and find the tales to be firmly linked by some remarkable but amusing instances of interference and confusion with one another . |
| 8 | Neither is there any strong reason for finding the contracts to be internationalised ; they were straight-forward commercial contracts with no exceptional features other than that one party was an international organisation . |
| 9 | Tony 's GP had prescribed the medication for his sleeping difficulties , but he had only taken it on two occasions , finding the tablets to be of little help . |