Example sentences of "it [be] found [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having said that , the hon. and learned Member for Burton makes a good point : it would offend against the views of ordinary persons and would be a crying sense of injustice if people who were not party to the aggravated crime and who had sought to distance themselves from it were found guilty because the balance of probabilities had fallen on them to prove their innocence . |
| 2 | Although this bed is neatly made in the evenings , it is found disturbed again every morning , as if someone sleeps in it each night . |
| 3 | Fifth , class action suits mean that a shareholder with just one share can sue on behalf of the entire body of shareholders and , finally , the widely misused Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act allows any firm that has been charged with fraud more than three times in the previous few years , whether or not it is found guilty , to be perceived as a corrupt organisation and therefore liable for triple damages . |
| 4 | But what happens to a noble family when it is found guilty of high treason ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ during the hours of darkness ’ This point is proved in accordance with local custom if it is found necessary . |
| 6 | Although this made less appeal to Chinese taste than paler varieties , it was found useful for feeding a growing export market to the west . |
| 7 | Even this combined flow at times proved insufficient and it was found necessary to dig a leat . |
| 8 | Indirect Rule had far more ideological content than the Punjab creed : it was found necessary ceaselessly to draw attention — perhaps because it was a principle coming to be so explicitly disputed by those to whom it was applied — to the long and careful weaning required for the native to shed his primitive mode of thinking and adopt successfully the ways of the modern world . |
| 9 | In 1893 , it was found necessary to perform a minor operation on one of the inmates , for which the administration of ‘ laughing gas ’ was required . |
| 10 | No observer was present during the home observations but , for technical reasons , it was found necessary to have an observer in the classroom and , this being so , it was decided to introduce a video-recorder as well . |
| 11 | But we suspect it was found necessary to place the Monkeys ' Dance where the score has it in order to allow time for setting this exotic scene — and six dancers cavorting about on the forestage could make a useful amount of noise to mask what was happening on the darkened scenic stage behind the proscenium arch . |
| 12 | In the early days the Manning conference was quite an informal one day session , but as the service grew and the numbers of boats and crew members complicated the issue it was found necessary to extend to two days . |
| 13 | In considering the requirements of local industry it was found necessary to place emphasis on the students elective programme ie he/she would be able to design his/her own programme to satisfy his/her own needs . |
| 14 | Even in organization theory , however , it was found necessary as recently as 1980 by Bacharach and Lawler to reject a view of organizations as rational , harmonious , apolitical and normatively integrated , substituting instead an approach to them as ‘ arenas for daily political action ’ in which power and influence are mobilized by interest groups to gain control of resources through bargaining and the formation of coalitions . |
| 15 | Even then it was found impossible to make more than rough estimates of overseas investment despite regulations concerning disclosure and the remittance of profits . |
| 16 | It was found dead — again at the school — almost ten years later to the day . |
| 17 | It was based on the number of dependent children in the family and was provided largely because it was found difficult to recruit men without ensuring some financial security for their families . |
| 18 | It was brought to Burford because it was found unable to feed itself . |
| 19 | In spite of this , Mahan wrote ‘ For twenty-two months Nelson 's fleet never went into port , at the end of that time , when the need arose to pursue an enemy for four thousand miles , it was found massed and in all respects perfectly prepared for so sudden and so distant a call . ’ |
| 20 | If we allow that the analogy does not provide a useful general descriptive or explanatory account of the growth of knowledge , we may be surprised that it was found plausible at all . |