Example sentences of "[vb mod] be found [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The provision in section 44(4) has been criticized on the ground that it is wrong in principle that a person should be found guilty of an offence which the jury find that he did not commit . |
| 2 | We believe that no one should be found guilty of a crime unless the statute or other piece of legislation establishing that crime is so clear that he must have known his act was criminal , or would have known if he had made any serious attempt to discover whether it was . |
| 3 | He asked my advice and I said she should be found suitable private accommodation . |
| 4 | It was an odd coincidence that a man should be found dead in the Thames near Stavanger 's office on the day that Stavanger had apparently disappeared , but that was now over four months ago , and in any case the police knew all about it , because the office cleaner had called the police . |
| 5 | Godoy struck first hoping , in the Escorial Trial , that Ferdinand might be found guilty of political parricide . |
| 6 | The third part describes the ways in which children acquire the forms of language , and develop their ability to use and understand them , with consideration of what might be found easy or difficult at different stages of development . |
| 7 | The plans would become the absolute copyright of the Government , to choose from the several plans the whole or such parts as might be found desirable ; but the architects would not have the slightest claim to be employed in the execution of the works . |
| 8 | Dr Hastreiter felt ‘ it is unlikely that any explanation could be found other than overdose . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There was great concern over whether the BA board could be found guilty of trading while knowingly insolvent if it carried on . |
| 10 | If a ganger was working on the track and was found to be over the limit , a director or manager could be found guilty of a criminal offence . |
| 11 | The jury were directed by the trial judge that they could find him guilty only as actor , whereas the true position was that he could be found guilty either as actor or on the basis of art and part . |
| 12 | ‘ So it might , ’ said Ramses , ‘ if anyone could be found stupid enough to lend to the Khedive . ’ |
| 13 | Its outstanding claims involving accountancy firms currently stand at $3bn , and under joint and several liability , the auditors could be found liable for the entire amount sought from all defendants , regardless of the degree of blame . |
| 14 | The following selection of support materials may be found helpful by centres : |
| 15 | It may be found useful to a new generation of cooks , professional and amateur . |
| 16 | The episode and activity checklists 6E and 6A which follow may be found useful even by the inexperienced observer . |
| 17 | For example , in the preface to Indian School Organization he explained : ‘ It is hoped that this book may be found useful … by teachers in general and headmasters in particular and may prove suggestive to Indian educationalists whose experience happens to be less varied than that of the author . ’ |
| 18 | More subtle correlations valid over limited classes of compounds may be found useful here . |
| 19 | Some of its sections and their subdivisions may be found unnecessary when applied to a particular problem ; some may require to be expanded . |
| 20 | 1821 " This Meeting having given due consideration to various kinds of theft committed in the Island — Resolve to stent themselves in a sum ( £20 ) … for the purpose of detecting and prosecuting such persons as may be found guilty of theft . " |
| 21 | Since the amendment bans ‘ unreasonable searches and seizures , ’ the possibility remains that a test may be found unreasonable if the job is so non-critical that public needs fail to outweigh individual privacy interests . |
| 22 | Feelings that may have poisoned one 's perceptions and coloured one 's actions since childhood may be found inappropriate to be carried around continually in adult life . |
| 23 | But in the ruts of streams , on lacustrine islets , occasionally along the shores of lakes , and in the clefts of rocks , there may be found stunted specimens of several species of trees . |
| 24 | He pledged that pensioners using the earmarked homes for short stays and for day care would be found alternative facilities . |
| 25 | Mr Kemp pledged that pensioners using the earmarked homes for short stays and for day care would be found alternative facilities once they had closed . |
| 26 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 27 | His widow Sheila said last night she had hoped and prayed her missing husband would be found alive . |
| 28 | Mr Major , who normally sleeps in a top-floor flat above his office , will be found other accommodation in Whitehall . |
| 29 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 30 | The fear is that , even if the random atrocities stop , prisoners will be found guilty on the basis of torture-induced confessions , and executed . |