Example sentences of "[noun] [be] found to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an inescapable fact that , despite all the care taken in passing legislation , some statutory provisions when applied to the circumstances under consideration in any specific case are found to be ambiguous . |
| 2 | When the fins of fossil specimens are carefully dissected , the lobes at the base are found to be supported by one stout bone close to the body , two bones joined to it and finally a group of small bones — the pattern that is found in the limbs of all land vertebrates . |
| 3 | Fraud appears to have increased rather than decreased , and it can not be argued that this is merely a matter of greater success in detection , as many of the frauds only come to light when investors find that they are unable to obtain their funds ( or the directors of the institution are found to be in sunny climes abroad , with little intention of returning to the UK ) . |
| 4 | Similarly for Sweden , three of the four variables are found to be significant — although the results generally for that country are less satisfactory than for the other three . |
| 5 | Ambiguity arises where , through an error in drafting , the words used in the statute are found to be capable of bearing two or more meanings . |
| 6 | There is strong evidence from Butler and Stokes ' surveys that housing tenure over-determines party support , in relation to ‘ occupational class ’ : in council housing only 51 per cent of those in occupational classes I-IV with a partisan self-image were found to be Tories , as against 76 per cent in owner-occupied housing . |
| 7 | No words were found to be allowable in these positions , so instead the top-ranked string is stored . |
| 8 | In some respects these accounts are similar to those in the experimental situation where key characteristics were found to be a common strategy . |
| 9 | In other species such as S.cerevisiae ( 6 ) , S.pombe ( 7 ) or Dictyostelium ( 8 ) , the repeated units were found to be more heterogeneous . |
| 10 | In addition , such lobes were found to be negative for the macrophage markers 5C6 and F4/80 ( ref.18 ) and the reticular fibroblast marker ERTR7 ( ref.16 ) . |
| 11 | From carbon dioxide preserved in bubbles in ice cores extracted from Antarctica and Greenland , pre-industrial atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were found to be about 280 ppm . |
| 12 | On the other hand , utilities were found to be insensitive to both unanticipated inflation and the unanticipated changes in the expected real long-term rate of growth of sales because this sector is highly regulated . |
| 13 | While a higher proportion of temporary workers than of the total labour force were found to be women workers ( 6 per cent compared to 41 per cent ) , temporary workers were also ‘ considerably younger ’ than the generality of workers , largely because a high proportion of the former are still teenagers . |
| 14 | A recent survey by the Consumers Association ( CA ) showed that a third of the tools hired from 32 randomly selected shops were found to be faulty when examined by experts . |
| 15 | By the end of the war , the bodies of these cars were found to be very worn and loose . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Although a comprehensive study by Shaw ( 1969 ) has shown that increased boldness of print increases legibility for some readers , differences in typography were found to be considerably less significant for younger than for older readers with partial sight . |
| 18 | These magnetic anomalies were found to be hundreds of kilometres long and typically 20–30 km across , and it initially seemed that they were caused by alternating bands of weakly and strongly magnetized rocks . |
| 19 | Where the practice is found to be anti-competitive the Minister can then accept voluntary undertakings from the firm to modify its practice or invoke extensive powers to proscribe the practice . |
| 20 | The general constitutive equation is found to be where and is now an integral involving the deformation gradient . |
| 21 | Occasionally when an employee is found to be driving whilst uninsured on his employer 's business he can put forward a defence where he shows — |
| 22 | A very serious view is taken of any circumstance where an employee is found to be in unauthorised possession of Company property ; such conduct may lead to dismissal . |
| 23 | Similarly , in a major study of investment in the EC over the period 1961–90 , the relation between net investment and the rate of profitability per unit of capital stock was found to be highly significant . |
| 24 | The daily faecal bile acid excretion was found to be significantly higher in the polyp group compared with cancer patients , while the difference between the polyp group and controls was of borderline significance ( Table III ) . |
| 25 | As previously reported , the serum gastrin concentration was found to be high in the renal failure patients compared with those with normal renal function . |
| 26 | However , others have been content to accept the message in Problems of Social Policy : for example , Peter Gosden , in his detailed study of education in the war , cites Titmuss as the authoritative source on the social consequences of evacuation ; likewise , Raynes Minns concludes that the revelations of the children 's condition ‘ made headlines , and once again , as in 1914 , when the physical condition of army recruits was found to be so poor , war forced a British government to recognise the extremes of poverty and neglect that survived in our cities , and eventually to act by expanding our welfare services ’ . |
| 27 | Over 35,000 plant species were carefully screened for anti-cancer properties , and yew bark extract was found to be effective against tumours in mice . |
| 28 | HMI methodology was found to be inadequate and the research findings of Bennett 's team contradict HMI ‘ findings ’ . |
| 29 | A lack of social support at the first interview was found to be associated with the presence of psychiatric symptoms ( GHQ scores ) at the second interview among those who had initially been well ( GHQ score less than 4 ) . |
| 30 | A fuel inlet isolating valve was found to be shut , putting a back-up cooling pump out of action . |