Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] found to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the effects of loss vary from one individual to another , on the whole it seems that men tend to fare a little better in bereavement than women , and fewer of them are found to be in need of psychiatric treatment for chronic grief and depression . |
| 2 | At assessment she was found to be severely depressed with a score of thirty-two on the Beck Depression Inventory ( Beck et al . , |
| 3 | She was found to be several months pregnant when she returned and was forced to marry William Wright of Louth , a plumber and glazier , at Haxey on 13 October 1725 . |
| 4 | When Valiant finally caught up with her in a Medway marina she was found to be clean . |
| 5 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 6 | A custom-built Shetland Islands Council ferry , Westering Homewards , is lying unused on the mainland after she was found to be unsafe for the exposed 22-mile Atlantic crossing . |
| 7 | It would be too bad if the Panzers overran our positions and we were found to be in our stocking feet . |
| 8 | This new vision began to prove that the more you strip the documents the more mysterious they are found to be . |
| 9 | The largest accounting firms could be on the receiving end of proposed new penalties to prevent abuse of market power including fines of up to 10% of turnover — if they are found to be using predatory pricing . |
| 10 | Too often , however , such ideas may fail to have the desired effect because they are found to be ‘ inappropriate ’ in some way . |
| 11 | Now , to illustrate the difference between sort of causation , one of my favourites is if you take the number of new born babies in Holland and you take the number of storks , they 're found to significantly correlate . |
| 12 | Nor can they be found to be in contempt of court in relation to words spoken in the course of proceedings in Parliament . |
| 13 | The northerners thought the others posh and ‘ mardy ’ ( affected ) , while in return they were found to be coarse and vulgar . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They were found to be wet through but well . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They were found to be more satisfactory . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Agency findings could be set aside if they were found to be ‘ arbitrary , capricious or an abuse of discretion . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They were found to be harmless and the drums were removed . |
| 25 | All but two of them were found to be leading personal lives that were full of achievement . |
| 26 | Countries which actually adopted it were found to er in this way . |
| 27 | It would certainly damage the apostle 's prophecy of future judgment of the world by God if he were found to be making reference to events which were only myth and legend . |
| 28 | This costs £26.64 ( £29.65 in London ) , but you get a refund if it 's found to be faulty . |
| 29 | But if one looks for Britain 's centre of gravity , it is found to be nearer the first in each pair of choices above . |
| 30 | It is found to a degree in gorillas but a closer similarity occurs in baboons . |