Example sentences of "were found to [be] " in BNC.

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1 Catering & Allied took presentations from half a dozen systems suppliers , and put three possibles on trial , but the two others were found to be too complex for the company 's purposes .
2 Four regions were found to be above the average : Scotland , 12.2 per cent ; the West Midlands 12 per cent ; the South-west 11.6 per cent ; and London 11.5 per cent .
3 The policy has been applied nationwide at the company 's 100 locations after a pioneering attitude survey at Reading , where 81 per cent of the workforce were found to be non-smokers .
4 It would be too bad if the Panzers overran our positions and we were found to be in our stocking feet .
5 A recent survey by the Consumers Association ( CA ) showed that a third of the tools hired from 32 randomly selected shops were found to be faulty when examined by experts .
6 Each club have been fined the same amount as Arsenal , who were found to be the less culpable party in the mass scuffle with Norwich City on November 4 .
7 Judge Byron Robb chose it to rule that work on the cult 's nuclear bunkers in Montana had to stop , after their fuel oil tanks were found to be leaking .
8 On close examination by the American Consumers ' Union , some of these switches were found to be connected to no vital function of the machine whatever .
9 The discredited test was used since the Seventies to identify impurities , and many owners were given clean bills of health on houses which subsequently were found to be contaminated and are now in danger of collapse .
10 In 1813 a gang of student body-snatchers known as the Patent Leather Club or Brotherhood of the Knife were found to be stockpiling spare limbs in tubs of salt water in secret rooms off the High Street .
11 The situation is more encouraging in the Netherlands , where parents were found to be involved in the care process ‘ to some extent ’ at least in 90 per cent of cases ; intensive involvement is , however , limited to 39 per cent of cases ( Ploeg and Scholte , 1988 ) .
12 The analyses that were constructed for these frescos were found to be useful in the examination of more famous works .
13 They identified a variety of factors which were found to be held in common by a number of American companies recognised as meeting the criteria for excellence .
14 One particular station , at Peach Bottom in Pennsylvania , had actually been officially stopped from operating after the control room staff were found to be falling asleep on the job .
15 No less than eighty-five per cent of the catering and retail outlets and eighty-four per cent of the accommodation establishments were found to be locally owned in the six locations where detailed research was done : Arundel , Broadway , Chipping Campden , Lavenham , Long Melford and Woodstock .
16 Just as drugs were often used , even when their properties were poorly understood , to investigate physiological processes which they evidently modified , so X-rays were found to be a valuable tool in certain fields of study .
17 World-wide co-operation in the matter of the venereal diseases was first formalized by the Brussels agreement of 1924 when the signatories undertook to provide a free treatment service for seamen of all countries who were found to be suffering from infection .
18 The forces were found to be very small and use very little of the embryo 's energy .
19 But as the therapy continued , Henry had observed , others were found to be guilty of the capital crime of blocking Elinor 's creativity .
20 This product was subsequently found to be prostaglandin H 2 and the unstable endoperoxides prostaglandin G 2 and prostaglandin H 2 were found to be released during platelet aggregation ( Hamberg et al , 1974 ) .
21 Similarly , following acute ligation of the coronary artery in dogs , high levels of thromboxane B 2 were found to be associated with cardiac arrhythmias ( Coker et al , 1981 ) .
22 In addition , thromboxane B 2 levels were found to be elevated in the peripheral blood of patients with Prinzmetal angina ( Lewy et al , 1979 ; Robertson et al , 1981 ) and in coronary sinus blood of patients with unstable angina ( Hirsh et al , 1981 ) .
23 Its ‘ original settlers were found to be a tailor , a publican , two eating-house keepers , and a fruit-pie maker ’ , SB 11 .
24 Boys who were caned at school for smoking were found to be more likely to increase their smoking than those not caned .
25 It took some time , but after 36 buns and a 40-ounce bottle of whiskey had been used up , the gulls were found to be reacting admirably and appeared to be enjoying the ‘ experiment ’ as much as the engineers .
26 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 .
27 As quarrying proceeded , an oblique section of a large cavern was gradually uncovered , and the infill sediments were found to be richly fossiliferous .
28 The bones remaining within the intact pellets were found to be protected from weathering and after two years the pellets were taken apart by hand and the bones from them exposed again .
29 After 36 month 's weathering , the bones of the skull were found to be little altered beyond the condition described above .
30 The teeth also were found to be similar to the condition described after 29 months weathering : for a sample of 31 teeth , 25.8 per cent were split ( Fig. 1.6A , B ) and 9.7 per cent were chipped ( Fig. 1.6E ) ; 34.8 per cent of the incisors were broken .
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