Example sentences of "[noun pl] were found [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 No words were found to be allowable in these positions , so instead the top-ranked string is stored .
2 In some respects these accounts are similar to those in the experimental situation where key characteristics were found to be a common strategy .
3 In other species such as S.cerevisiae ( 6 ) , S.pombe ( 7 ) or Dictyostelium ( 8 ) , the repeated units were found to be more heterogeneous .
4 In addition , such lobes were found to be negative for the macrophage markers 5C6 and F4/80 ( ref.18 ) and the reticular fibroblast marker ERTR7 ( ref.16 ) .
5 From carbon dioxide preserved in bubbles in ice cores extracted from Antarctica and Greenland , pre-industrial atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were found to be about 280 ppm .
6 On the other hand , utilities were found to be insensitive to both unanticipated inflation and the unanticipated changes in the expected real long-term rate of growth of sales because this sector is highly regulated .
7 A recent survey by the Consumers Association ( CA ) showed that a third of the tools hired from 32 randomly selected shops were found to be faulty when examined by experts .
8 By the end of the war , the bodies of these cars were found to be very worn and loose .
9 The animals were found to be carrying antibodies against a variant of the hepatitis virus , indigenous to Old World primates , but unknown in the New World outside captivity .
10 These magnetic anomalies were found to be hundreds of kilometres long and typically 20–30 km across , and it initially seemed that they were caused by alternating bands of weakly and strongly magnetized rocks .
11 Lowuse sites were found to be depleted only in nitrogen though the heavily used ones were depleted of potassium and magnesium and possibly of calcium and phosphorus as well .
12 The situation is more encouraging in the Netherlands , where parents were found to be involved in the care process ‘ to some extent ’ at least in 90 per cent of cases ; intensive involvement is , however , limited to 39 per cent of cases ( Ploeg and Scholte , 1988 ) .
13 Firstly , positive school experiences were found to be important .
14 These ratios were found to be mainly associated with recent returns on equity , growth rates and debt/equity ratios .
15 Only two patients with Crohn 's disease were studied , however , and CD4 + /CD8 + ratios were found to be normal ; similar studies of T cells from inflamed mucosa of patients with Crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis have not showed any significant changes from controls .
16 It took some time , but after 36 buns and a 40-ounce bottle of whiskey had been used up , the gulls were found to be reacting admirably and appeared to be enjoying the ‘ experiment ’ as much as the engineers .
17 The state of the fundic wrap can be accurately assessed with the retroflexed endoscope , and shortly after fundoplication 8–9% of wraps were found to be defective .
18 Three open sprinklers were found to be sufficient to stop even the most rapidly developing fire .
19 Bird prey completely disappeared , and laboratory mice were found to be more greatly affected than were wood mice .
20 The external services employed by the companies were found to be inadequate by 24% of the sample — specifically
21 Members of a random sample of 1000 men aged 65 in 1955 were followed up and the numbers still alive after successive 5-year intervals were found to be as follows : Construct a life table for these men including estimates of life expectancy at the start of successive 5-year age periods .
22 Indeed , it was not long before some of the concessions which the British had secured — after considerable persuasive effort on their part — to assist in the postwar reconstruction and conversion of their own economy to peacetime purposes were found to be at risk .
23 In nineteen ninety one , twelve thousand eight hundred and twelve workers were found to be underpaid .
24 Later 32 season ticket slips were found to be forgeries .
25 Two-thirds of the statements were found to be biased : this was particularly evident when developers had not used outside consultants to prepare the statements , and where the developer was also the planning authority .
26 With young children , a high proportion of questions seems to be beneficial ( Nelson 1973 ) , but in slightly older children at pre-school , questions were found to be detrimental to the maintenance of conversational exchanges ( Wood et al .
27 About half of the travelling families were found to be living on official local authority sites with only 28 per cent living on derelict land .
28 No less than eighty-five per cent of the catering and retail outlets and eighty-four per cent of the accommodation establishments were found to be locally owned in the six locations where detailed research was done : Arundel , Broadway , Chipping Campden , Lavenham , Long Melford and Woodstock .
29 The tyres on the locomotive 's driving wheels were found to be of different sizes after they had been reprofiled by a well-known company in South Wales .
30 Information leakages were found to be smaller in chemicals than in other sectors , and for new process development decisions in virtually all of the industries in the sample ( see Mansfield et al. ,
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