Example sentences of "were [adv] found to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first simple station at Cape Town , appropriate to the short lines of the mid-Victorian colony , were soon found to be inadequate when that city became , in effect , the gateway to a subcontinent . |
| 2 | Specimens recovered from the sea floor showed that this ridge consists entirely of volcanic rocks , and similar ridges were soon found to be present beneath many of the oceans . |
| 3 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 4 | The couple were also forced to sell at a loss , the nearby post office and general store , which were also found to be contaminated . |
| 5 | Major revisions were also found to be necessary halfway through the programme . |
| 6 | Other types of cancer were also found to be higher in geographical areas where chemical plants were situated . |
| 7 | Fragmentation and excessive pace were also found to be important variables bearing on job satisfaction , with many workers , who did not find their work monotonous , stating that it did not absorb their full attention or that they found the pace of it too fast . |
| 8 | Two other variables were also found to be important . |
| 9 | Both were also found to be non-portable and non-extensible to other applications . |
| 10 | Supermarkets , including Tesco 's store in Banbury and the Co-Op in Kidlington , were also found to be selling ham , which experts say had a high risk of food poisoning . |
| 11 | But even Ephorus and Timaeus were later found to be superficial informants on them . |
| 12 | Accounts of some 70 of the refugees being murdered near the shore by an armed gang and of women being raped were later found to be inaccurate . |
| 13 | Mr Ahtisaari said that only 315 people were then found to be unaccounted for , because the mission 's list contained duplications , vague identifications , names of people who have been released and repatriated , names of people never detained and some who have been reported dead . |
| 14 | This membrane contains endotoxins ; although on a cell-to-cell basis , L-forms contain less , they were sometimes found to be more endotoxic than complete bacteria . |
| 15 | What Gordon found was that the passages rewritten by the class containing the most poor readers were the ones which were subsequently found to be the most comprehensible . |
| 16 | Since the framework gave no hint of the long periods of time during which tool types were in use , sites that were originally considered to be contemporary were subsequently found to be separated by hundreds or thousands of years . |
| 17 | The original interview notes were subsequently found to be missing and the two officers were suspended from duty pending the outcome of the investigation . |
| 18 | A supply of seat belts which the owner of Transom Trading had bought for £600 in September from a market trader in good faith and which were subsequently found to be defective . |
| 19 | Another batch of goods which had been bought for £400 and sold for £600 were subsequently found to be faulty . |