Example sentences of "be found [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason for this would be if the original script contained spelling errors , so the ‘ correct ’ word could not be found as a legal English word . |
| 2 | ‘ Literariness ’ is to be found as a basic principle in the work of the Russian Formalists and the New Critics , and , elaborately formulated , in Frye 's Anatomy of Criticism . |
| 3 | She would send him off to some lecturing engagement with butter and other rations to give his hostess , and when he came back the rations would be found as a soggy mess in his pocket . |
| 4 | however can be found for a general polymer from birefringence and n.m.r. studies . |
| 5 | It gave the best possible example that could be found for a rhetorical approach to the question of property . |
| 6 | It is easier for a husband to be found for a thin , and therefore supposedly beautiful , girl than for a plump one . |
| 7 | Sergeants and Inspectors know almost exactly where an officer can be found at a certain time , and woe betide the constable who keeps his superior officer waiting . |
| 8 | Perhaps one of the best examples of that , could be found at a recent tournament , where , after suffering considerable pain during a match , she declined the soothing comforts of an ice pack in the clubhouse . |
| 9 | Since we shall have to be content with inexact knowledge we will not insist that our electron is to be found at a definite point but simply require that it is localised within an interval of space of length Ax . |
| 10 | The absence of a temple or shrine in the near vicinity and of any obvious religious objects or inscriptions , casts serious doubt on this suggestion , but a shrine may be found at a nearby sacred spring . |
| 11 | He narrowly missed what he thought was a lamp post but turned out to be a tree , and reached for where the handle was usually to be found on a front door . |
| 12 | His temple is to be found on a great tower of black adamant rising out of the steaming lava within the volcano 's crater . |
| 13 | They presented a number of lexical items likely to be found on a French restaurant menu , together with the language forms they wanted the class to use . |
| 14 | It has now been confirmed , however , that Bt is a ubiquitous soil microorganism and that highly active strains of Bt can be found in a wide variety of environmental samples . |
| 15 | The specific objectification of a moral and juridical individual through the use of objects may be found in a wide range of societies , including those where kinship rather than the economy appears to be the dominant organizational principle . |
| 16 | While TNCs are certainly to be found in a wide variety of economic sectors they share the same basic function of capital accumulation on a global scale , and the same consistent character of having to work out global strategies to ensure their continued growth . |
| 17 | The principal importance of the decision , however , lies in the support that it affords to the proposition that it is not necessary for the duty of the policeman to be found in a specific rule of the common law or statute . |
| 18 | The nearest to a map-reference which Violet Needham ever gave for her fictional countries may be found in a casual conversation between two schoolboys , one of whom has recently visited : |
| 19 | An axisymmetric bulge , as would be found in a normal ( non-barred ) galaxy , would show no such effects . |
| 20 | Mr Williams was walking in the countryside , listening for odd songs , looking for that magic to be found in a new song . |
| 21 | On location where what criteria might be used to guide location , I 've said it 's most unlikely to be found in a built-up area , but clearly close to good communications networks is important and must be within a reasonably short travel time of the national highway network . |
| 22 | The ability to discriminate between types of potential information source , for instance between consulting an encyclopedia and a dictionary , or either of these and a full-length monograph , as well as recognizing what types of information may best be found in a visual source such as a photograph or chart . |
| 23 | A remarkable scene on a Nene Valley vessel ( fig. 14.14 ) in the Peterborough Museum shows a scene more likely today to be found in a modern circus . |
| 24 | More important , perhaps , is the fact that this account of the family may be considered defective in that it ignores the varieties of patterns of family living that are to be found in a modern industrial society . |
| 25 | Most of them are to be found in a narrow range of occupations and over half are office or secretarial workers [ see Table 2.5 ] . |
| 26 | This corrective to assertions of media omnipotence can be found in a recent study of a major political/industrial story , the 1984 — 5 miners ' strike in Britain . |
| 27 | Book-destroyers of this kind , especially when they blatantly advertise their wares as suitable for breaking and framing for an inn , a billiard room or boudoir , act only in the cause of financial gain and have no respect for the qualities to be found in a complete book . |
| 28 | Details of postage rates for parcels to HM Forces can be found in a separate leaflet . |
| 29 | On this issue , my contention is that the dominant tradition of public law thought is to be found in a conservative variant of the normativist style . |
| 30 | Some support for the notion that there are ways of marking the boundaries of ‘ speech paragraphs ’ can be found in a common practice of people who are asked to read pieces of written text aloud . |