Example sentences of "was found to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are numerous examples of the poor quality of court-appointed lawyers ; John Young went to his death even though his trial lawyer had signed an affidavit admitting he had been ill-prepared at trial due to drug use , the recent break-up of his marriage and the discovery of his own homosexuality ; another attorney had his breath checked by the judge for signs of alcohol , another was found to be in contempt of court after arriving back from lunch drunk … and so I could go on . |
| 2 | Other students joined in and before long , quite spontaneously , a crowd of some 200 or so was found to be singing lustily , with Leonard as the ecstatic , unselfconscious conductor . |
| 3 | After it was unpacked the plaque was found to be missing . |
| 4 | Either they do not want to run the risk of miscarriage ( about one in 100-200 ) which the procedure entails ; or they would not want a termination even if the baby was found to be disabled . |
| 5 | THE MOST important Khmer and Thai sculptures were withdrawn from Sotheby 's major sale of Asian art yesterday after one of the pieces was found to be a fake . |
| 6 | The Commissariat was found to be ‘ exceptionally developed ’ and full of ‘ a series of purely academic-parliamentary institutions ’ . |
| 7 | At the same time their insistence on otherness was found to be inseparable from a fear and disavowal of the same , or the proximate . |
| 8 | The work was carried out during the period 1980–1 and the existing building construction was found to be generally in good condition . |
| 9 | The essential structure of the mill — both masonry and timberwork — was found to be very sound . |
| 10 | But when they sent the specimen to the Natural History Museum it was found to be the intestine of a hedgehog , if you will pardon the expression . |
| 11 | In fact , when compared with another leading sensitive skincare brand in independent laboratory tests , the Sensiq Skin Care Collection was found to be seven times less likely to cause irritation . |
| 12 | Studies were put in hand to see whether it would be practicable to deploy Blue Streak in hardened underground silos in the Welsh mountains or the Scottish highlands , but the cost was found to be so great that it would have beggared the Defence Vote , making the restoration of more efficient conventional forces impossible . |
| 13 | Months after the accident , the town of Narodichi , well outside the no-go zone , was found to be polluted , when other towns within the zone were relatively free of radiation . |
| 14 | By this time , therefore , the Forest Eyre was found to be a cumbersome and ineffectual engine , and was allowed to fall into desuetude : only two short eyres were held in the southern forests during the remainder of the century — in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire in 1348 , and in Hampshire and Wiltshire in 1355 . |
| 15 | But the last time such an exercise was undertaken in 1985 , Britain 's pension was found to be the lowest , apart from that paid in Ireland ( Spain , Portugal and Greece were excluded ) . |
| 16 | The decision to dynamite the rock , using five tons of explosives , was taken last week after it was found to be moving at an accelerated rate . |
| 17 | He was found to be highly contagious and received 37 days of in-patient treatment . |
| 18 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 19 | But Moubarak argued that he might have misjudged the colt 's preparation in not giving him sufficient work since he was found to be suffering from a minor skin infection on his legs after his previous race . |
| 20 | However , the following day , when the floorboards were removed to examine the beam , it was found to be so deeply cracked in two places that they ascribed the fact that it had not given way to a ‘ wonder of [ God 's ] providence ’ . |
| 21 | At assessment she was found to be severely depressed with a score of thirty-two on the Beck Depression Inventory ( Beck et al . , |
| 22 | The active antiulcer substance present was found to be the isoprenyl substituted chalcone , sophoradin ( 13 ) . |
| 23 | For those with raised aluminium levels in the water supply ( of 110 ug/litre ) , the risk was found to be 35–50 per cent higher in people under 70 . |
| 24 | When the Furniture Fund reached £170 the lounge floor was found to be damp . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , in 1959 it was found to be unsafe and alterations had to be made . |
| 26 | The popular movement did not produce the Uprising , but its proven modus operandi was found to be essential to its success . |
| 27 | Their activity created some initial enthusiasm , but was found to be poor compared with quinine . |
| 28 | The reports created sufficient interest for Sontochin to be synthesized and tested by the American company , and it was found to be active against malaria in canaries . |
| 29 | But it was found to be valuable in conjunction with the newly-discovered antibiotic streptomycin ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 30 | It was found to be active but only in concentrations too high to be clinically acceptable . |