Example sentences of "[art] [noun] were find to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLUMPTON yesterday became the 12th meeting of the National Hunt season to be called off after parts of the course were found to be waterlogged . |
| 2 | The animals were found to be carrying antibodies against a variant of the hepatitis virus , indigenous to Old World primates , but unknown in the New World outside captivity . |
| 3 | It took some time , but after 36 buns and a 40-ounce bottle of whiskey had been used up , the gulls were found to be reacting admirably and appeared to be enjoying the ‘ experiment ’ as much as the engineers . |
| 4 | The external services employed by the companies were found to be inadequate by 24% of the sample — specifically |
| 5 | Two-thirds of the statements were found to be biased : this was particularly evident when developers had not used outside consultants to prepare the statements , and where the developer was also the planning authority . |
| 6 | After 36 month 's weathering , the bones of the skull were found to be little altered beyond the condition described above . |
| 7 | The policy has been applied nationwide at the company 's 100 locations after a pioneering attitude survey at Reading , where 81 per cent of the workforce were found to be non-smokers . |
| 8 | The forces were found to be very small and use very little of the embryo 's energy . |
| 9 | In a recent ACCOUNTANCY survey of the financial directors of The Times Top 100 Companies , over 70% of the respondents were found to be trading electronically . |
| 10 | In 1813 a gang of student body-snatchers known as the Patent Leather Club or Brotherhood of the Knife were found to be stockpiling spare limbs in tubs of salt water in secret rooms off the High Street . |
| 11 | Also , subjects were asked to describe the first meeting with a close friend or partner ; in this case all the persons described in the account were found to be favourable and the account are being made in retrospect . |
| 12 | Apparently they were literally poised to arrest both Nigel and Kerry when the clothes were found to be missing from the cupboard this morning . |
| 13 | An unknown writer observing at the restoration work of 1887 says of the nave , the walls were found to be covered with old surface paintings , and Fielding in his Memories of Malling , writes , " In Halling Church until a few years ago existed the uncouth painting over the chancel arch , variously described as the tale of the unfaithful wife and the emblematic representation of the seven deadly sins . |
| 14 | No words were found to be allowable in these positions , so instead the top-ranked string is stored . |
| 15 | During the winter of 1907–8 , sick seamen landed from a steamship were found to be suffering from smallpox . |