Example sentences of "was [adv] found to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their geological mapping was rarely found to be faulty by subsequent investigators . |
| 2 | This arrangement was soon found to be unpopular with the staff , as a passenger sat there could distract the driver . |
| 3 | Charcoal was not found to be effective as an antiendotoxin agent . |
| 4 | The mother 's objection was not found to be unreasonable and no suggestion was made to allow adoption with a condition of access so as not to deprive the ten year old of the security that goes with adoption compared to long-term foster care . |
| 5 | Various walls in the corrie were climbed on and the rock was generally found to be reasonable , but quite loose in places . |
| 6 | The exercise of statutory powers was closely scrutinized and any procedural or substantive defect was generally found to be sufficient to nullify a decision . |
| 7 | It was later found to be useful to set up separate databases for each functional group , which prevented earlier versions of the full database being corrupted as experiments in sorting and producing reports were carried out . |
| 8 | This was later found to be untrue , as neither of her daughters nor her son received any schooling or tuition of any sort for the five weeks they were away . |
| 9 | Although this was later found to be correct , there was no way of telling how true it was at the time . |
| 10 | Tawell replied that he was short of money , a fact that was later found to be true . |
| 11 | Ironically his most famous expression of the type theory , in a formula for bleaching powder , was later found to be wrong . |
| 12 | Further work with such pupils which has shown success has included structuring games in which poorly accepted pupils were paired with moderately accepted pupils ; modelling with guided examples on film and video was also found to be helpful in terms of social acceptance . |
| 13 | English was the dominant target language ( i e accounting for 50% to 75% of all in-company language training ) , though provision was also found to be high for French and Spanish , less so for Italian , Japanese and Russian ; |
| 14 | Such waste was also found to be common at Catholme ( Losco-Bradley 1977 ) . |
| 15 | The change in position of the needle was then found to be progressive , not sudden , and thus the field of view is not well defined . |