Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] found [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Dunlop , of Linfield , preferred to Allen McKnight , held out for 42 minutes , but when Fort Dunlop came under siege , the defences were found wanting , and the only Irish-based player on the field was at fault for the important first goal . |
| 2 | She called the RSPCA and fire brigade but the birds were found dead . |
| 3 | In the case of a restricted licence , the LA must revoke it if , twice within a five-year period , the holder is found guilty of carrying goods which should have been covered by a standard or standard international licence . |
| 4 | To raise funds for the buildings , it was resolved that ‘ friends of the Institution should be requested to lend money on interest at three per cent per annum — the principal to be repaid as soon as funds of the College were found sufficient for that purpose ’ . |
| 5 | The result was the car was found parked half on the footpath just a few yards away . |
| 6 | 1808 " It having been Represented to this Meeting that the Fund for raising the Militia men by a Publick Box was found Inadequate to raise the men , of course the Funds were found deficient by one Hundered and eight pounds 14/- … this Meeting consider themselves bound to advance upon this Deficiency the one half … |
| 7 | They were released when the terms of the review were found acceptable . |
| 8 | Last month , the club was found guilty of financial irregularities and fined £50,000 by the Football League , then last week Fry was sacked and the club , plus Flashman 's north London mansion , was raided by tax officials . |
| 9 | The defendants were found guilty of plotting to overthrow the monarchy and threatening the security of the state . |
| 10 | But the youngsters were found dead in their beds after she walked into a police station at the weekend . |
| 11 | The safe was found forced open and abandoned yesterday in Arnold Road , Darlington . |
| 12 | As a result Eck , the doctor and the engineer were found guilty , sentenced to death and executed by firing squad on Luneberg Heath . |
| 13 | When the match was found wanting , he was able to proceed to non-spherical planets , and so on . |
| 14 | When the King was found dead he returned here to the castle and closeted himself in his room . ’ |
| 15 | Six of the crew were found dead in the fuselage and the rear gunner , Sgt Fenton , was found in the tail some distance away , barely alive . |
| 16 | On removal of that … the front part of the head was found swathed and tied round with cord in the same manner as the rest of the body … |
| 17 | If the person was found guilty their money would be returned but , if not , the police would keep it . ’ |
| 18 | The 17-year-old was found dead at 4.30am on Sunday in the back seat of a stolen car , at Glen Road , after shots had been fired at the vehicle by police during a high-speed chase from Lisburn to Belfast . |
| 19 | The father was found guilty of the manslaughter of his baby daughter of three months . |
| 20 | The woman was found naked from the waist down in the skip , in Glovers Alley behind the Royal College of Surgeons near the city centre , by a porter who heard moans . |
| 21 | Water from the well in the Works was found unsuitable for locomotives , and was thereafter supplied to the inhabitants ! |
| 22 | Nine months ago Tessa the Collie was found starving in a back yard in Aylesbury . |
| 23 | ( Some of the men were found guilty of indecent assault . ) |
| 24 | The children were found dead in their cabin when the ferry docked in Cork on Wednesday after a stormy Irish Sea crossing from Swansea . |
| 25 | If the member is found guilty , he is entitled to make submissions on the question of any penalty . |
| 26 | At Oxford Crown Court , the pair were found guilty of conspiracy to commit arson , following two separate attacks on meat lorries in 1991 . |
| 27 | Due to the efforts of Bruce Harris and Casa Alianza in Guatemala City and appeals from thousands of Amnesty International supporters the policemen were found guilty of his murder in March 1991 and sentenced to prison terms ranging between 10 and 15 years . |
| 28 | 75% of the Central Committee of the party were found guilty of such crimes and executed or deported to Siberia . |
| 29 | Eight of the paratroopers were found guilty of indecently assaulting the woman soldier . |
| 30 | This he refused to accept , and in consequence was given a Form 2 , which was the equivalent to a dismissal notice , if the client was found guilty . |