Example sentences of "[pron] were found to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They identified a variety of factors which were found to be held in common by a number of American companies recognised as meeting the criteria for excellence . |
| 2 | Characteristics which were found to be statistically significant in their relation to manufacturing employment change were deemed to be contributory causes of it . |
| 3 | Only those correlations which were found to be significantly greater than zero at the one percent level will be discussed here . |
| 4 | The anti-social childhood behaviours which were found to be significantly associated with adult sociopathy were : pathological lying , lack of guilt , sexual perversion , impulsiveness , truanting , being a runaway , physical aggression , a poor employment record , premarital intercourse , theft , incorrigibility , staying out late , having ‘ bad ’ associates and recklessness . |
| 5 | Local education authorities which were found to be abusing their powers risked direct action by Whitehall , he said in a letter to 108 chief education officers in England . |
| 6 | Each club have been fined the same amount as Arsenal , who were found to be the less culpable party in the mass scuffle with Norwich City on November 4 . |
| 7 | World-wide co-operation in the matter of the venereal diseases was first formalized by the Brussels agreement of 1924 when the signatories undertook to provide a free treatment service for seamen of all countries who were found to be suffering from infection . |
| 8 | ACA ACA and FCA all of who were found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that they at Stockport between 1 February 1991 and 31 October 1991 passed clients ' monies through their firm 's office account were each reprimanded and jointly and severally ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 9 | ACA , FCA ACA and FCA all of all of Bridge House , Heap Bridge , Bury , Lancs who were found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that they at Bury between 7 August 1991 and 8 September 1991 passed clients ' monies through their firm 's office account were each reprimanded and jointly and severally ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 10 | FCA and FCA all of who were found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that they at Hoylake on or about 17 September 1990 passed client 's money through their firm 's office account were each reprimanded and jointly and severally ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 11 | This hypothesis is compatible with earlier results and with a study of hypertensive patients with high renin profiles , a condition likely to be associated with increased angiotensin II , who were found to be at higher risk of coronary heart disease than those with low renin profiles . |
| 12 | Table VI summarises the number of subjects in each subgroup who were accepted for respite and day sitting services and who were found to be eligible for the mobility and attendance allowances before and after the interview . |
| 13 | However , of the significantly reduced number who were found to be poor , 68 per cent were pensioners ( table 5.1 of A. B. Atkison , ‘ Low pay and the cycle of poverty ’ , in Low Pay , ed . |
| 14 | The proportion of men aged 15–19 who were found to be infected with HIV-1 at their first test increased from an average of 2.4% up to 1990 to 4.7% in the first nine months of 1991 . |
| 15 | Over 1500 teeth were examined from pellet samples of adult birds from South Africa , Kenya and England , and none were found to be either digested or broken . |
| 16 | It would be too bad if the Panzers overran our positions and we were found to be in our stocking feet . |
| 17 | The northerners thought the others posh and ‘ mardy ’ ( affected ) , while in return they were found to be coarse and vulgar . |
| 18 | At best , a family might be given two shillings weekly if , after being willing to submit to a very strict investigation into their financial position ( this was called a ‘ Means Test ’ ) they were found to be at starvation level . |
| 19 | They were found to be wet through but well . |
| 20 | One of a batch of large bogie cars , delivered to Gravesend where they were found to be too large , also found its way onto the Aurelia Road site , to be tried out when the line opened . |
| 21 | They were found to be more satisfactory . |
| 22 | Well , not that bad really , but they 'd laden a van in London bound for Torquay , and managed to overfill it somewhat , so that when membership services executive Kevin Ramage ( driver ) and conference executive Meryl Halls ( navigator ) were stopped on the road to Torquay and instructed by the police to proceed to the nearest weighbridge , they were found to be in contravention of the law . |
| 23 | Agency findings could be set aside if they were found to be ‘ arbitrary , capricious or an abuse of discretion . ’ |
| 24 | In comparison with accountants , bank managers , NHS doctors and estate agents , they were found to be as easy to talk to as bank managers and easier to talk to than all the others bar NHS doctors , to be easier to understand than accountants and estate agents , to be more efficient than accountants and estate agents , to be more hardworking than accountants , bank managers and estate agents , to be as dependable as bank managers and more dependable than accountants and estate agents , to be as up-to-date as accountants and more up-to-date than estate agents . |
| 25 | When some of these were examined , they were found to be less than successful ; in some cases because of poor engineering practice but generally because of inadequate evaluation of the economic factors involved . |
| 26 | On Aug. 17 , US naval vessels intercepted two Iraqi coasters in the Gulf , but allowed them to proceed after they were found to be empty ; on Aug. 18 , US vessels fired warning shots across the bows of two Iraqi tankers in the Gulf of Oman . |
| 27 | Sales of shellfish from the Charente-Maritime , Vendée and Gironde regions of western France were banned after they were found to be contaminated with an unidentified toxin . |
| 28 | They were found to be harmless and the drums were removed . |
| 29 | All but two of them were found to be leading personal lives that were full of achievement . |
| 30 | In an ensuing fight around Christmas time 1896 the police had swooped and arrested twenty-eight youths some of whom were found to be in possession of pistols , which was taken to link them to a young girl 's death — although this was some months later . |