Example sentences of "be [verb] and found [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it claims to be true , it must be willing to show the areas in which the evidence for its claims can be examined and found to be true . |
| 2 | This had already been tried and found to be unsatisfactory with the old Vigilant . |
| 3 | Marx 's arguments for this position , as elaborated in the ‘ Communist Manifesto ’ , were examined and found to be seriously problematic . |
| 4 | Of particular interest in this case is the fact that as part of a nutritional screen serum and red cell glutathione concentrations were measured and found to be low . |
| 5 | Erm , one thing some people do know that are in this room , and others do n't , and he 's quite embarrassed about this , on the way home from the conference , Matthew and I had a very , very bad accident , on the motorway and we 're both very , very lucky to have survived actually , erm , but erm , unfortunately during the course , well after the accident , Matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and he 's in court actually in the Birmingham area on the twenty second of February , and we 're hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence , but er , we 're both very , very lucky to be here today . |
| 6 | The first option was costed and found to be more expensive than the Garden could afford . |
| 7 | This DNA was sequenced and found to be most similar to that from Rhodococcus , Streptomyces , and Arthrobacter genera . |
| 8 | In one study , patient anxiety was measured and found to be highest in the first 24 hours of a hospital stay ( Wilson-Barnett , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | The metal drawer was opened and found to be empty . |
| 10 | It was nearly 20 years before Cade 's discovery was reinvestigated and found to be a useful treatment for maniacal patients . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most interesting example of this is to be found in the Manor House garden , where a large section was unearthed and found to be well preserved . |
| 12 | By the middle of the nineteenth century , the offence had fallen into desuetude , but it was resurrected and found to be a handy prosecutorial weapon against gang fights , because it enabled the prosecutor to circumvent the limitations imposed by the laws of complicity . |
| 13 | His wife 's body was exhumed and found to be riddled with arsenic . |
| 14 | The direction of a subject 's first eye movement following a question was recorded and found to be related to the type of question being asked . |