Example sentences of "[be] found [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you check their tenancy agreement , because it was a pretty Machiavellian , Dickensian tenancy agreement , if you 're found smoking in bed for example , you were out the next morning , those sort of things , and I think you really ought to look at that very carefully . |
| 2 | Many have poor accommodation , are poorly resourced and , a number when inspected by HMI , are found to give inadequate standards of education — yet parents are willing to pay quite substantial fees to send their children to these schools . |
| 3 | Boundary hedges tend to be the oldest hedges , and a number of these are found bordering brooks and streams . |
| 4 | Most provocatively , those gender anxieties are found to harbour a repressed homosexuality . |
| 5 | Some 40 per cent of women with gonorrhoea are found to harbour the bug in the rectum and it is clear that in only a minority of cases has the gonococcus been ‘ placed ’ there . |
| 6 | Using n-grams , those candidate strings which are found to exist in the list of n-grams are then stored in a list . |
| 7 | Striking similarities are found to exist in the development of bank-industry relations in Central European and Scandinavian countries when economic growth of European industrial nations is compared since the turn of the century . |
| 8 | In studies of conflicts between line and staff employees , line managers are found to rely on reward and authority power bases ; staff rely on expertise and coercive power bases . |
| 9 | The spelling variants for OE ( ht ) overlap with spelling variants for other forms ( from different sources in OE ) , just as phonological variants in present-day studies are found to overlap . |
| 10 | And father and son teams are found serving together , presumably by arrangement . |
| 11 | I have given instructions to Brian Lewis that if members of staff are found trying to abuse this facility he should switch off the lift system entirety . |
| 12 | Once a conditioned response develops , stimuli that are similar but not identical to the conditioned stimulus are found to elicit a similar response . |
| 13 | Many of the results which are found to hold in the more familiar game theoretic environment will generalize to such a framework . |
| 14 | However , Monday morning is also busy because of the number of premises that are found broken into after the weekend . |
| 15 | These engines are found fitted to later Range Rovers but not 90–110 . |
| 16 | Owners will be required to have their cars repaired within 15 days if they are found to exceed limits . |
| 17 | As new books are received , new places are found to accommodate them . |
| 18 | James R. Nicolson in " Traditional Life in Shetland " says that curious cup-shaped hollows are found cut into the surface of a flat rock . |
| 19 | The way in which such imputed values are found varies from case to case and is seldom straightforward . |
| 20 | The economic programmes of the left parties are found wanting everywhere . |
| 21 | Science , for Freud , involves an open-mindedness , and a preparedness to discard ideas and theories if they are found wanting in the light of later research work . |
| 22 | Improvements can be made in the light of performance and composers may discard or destroy compositions which are found wanting . |
| 23 | In nature they are found living singly , in pairs , or in small groups depending on the size of the host and are happy in the aquarium whichever of these alternatives you adopt , although it is wise when keeping a number together to restrict these to one species , as most clownfish species are mutually intolerant of other species of their family and will not share living space or an anemone host . |
| 24 | But I would not hesitate if people are found harassing the whales or causing them to panic . ’ |
| 25 | But insurers have agreed to pay out if it is discovered in future that procedures which would now be classified as benign are found to cause environmental damage . |
| 26 | They are found painted on larnaxes ( clay coffins ) , engraved on bronze tablets , painted on frescoes , depicted on rings and gemstones . |
| 27 | Thus , the abstract ‘ idea ’ of ‘ man ’ , what Locke calls a nominal essence , differs from that of ‘ Peter ’ and ‘ Paul ’ 'in the leaving out something , that is peculiar to each individual ; and retaining so much of those particular complex ideas , of several particular existences , as they are found to agree in . ’ |
| 28 | For Locke , then , ‘ general words signify … a sort of thing ’ ; and they do this by being a sign of an abstract idea or nominal essence in the mind , ‘ to which idea , as things existing are found to agree , so they come to be ranked under that name ; or … be of that sort ’ . |
| 29 | ( i ) 0.245g of X are found to occupy 122 cm at 293 K and at a pressure of 5.20 Calculate to three significant figures the relative molecular mass of X. |
| 30 | An Act was passed in the reign of Elizabeth I " against the erecting and maintaining of cottages " with the aim of " avoiding the great inconveniences which are found to grow by the creating … of great numbers and multitudes of cottages " … |