Example sentences of "found [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1808 " It having been Represented to this Meeting that the Fund for raising the Militia men by a Publick Box was found Inadequate to raise the men , of course the Funds were found deficient by one Hundered and eight pounds 14/- … this Meeting consider themselves bound to advance upon this Deficiency the one half … |
| 2 | They have been found deficient in their prescriptive capacity rather than in their analysis of the social structure of organizations ( of which they say very little ) . |
| 3 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 4 | He had been found asleep on the floor of a taxi outside a night club and claimed he had hired it for the evening as his bedroom . |
| 5 | More than one drunken fireman was reputedly found asleep in an adjacent stable . |
| 6 | He then returned to the sitting room and sat in front of the television where he was found asleep by his father and the others when they returned 40 minutes later . |
| 7 | There , in 1892 , he was found asleep and drunk on his beat , and was reduced to third-class constable and the fifteen rupees salary upon which he had started over twenty years earlier . |
| 8 | I was found asleep under a hedge , a partly sampled bottle still clutched protectively in my hands . |
| 9 | During one incident a thief actually climbed through a window to pinch a cashbox and , another time , a drunk was found asleep in the office . |
| 10 | The eighties brought commercial pragmatism , with for example many refreshment-trolley services run by private firms that employees of any organisation as large as BR would almost certainly have found impractical . |
| 11 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 12 | There had been rumours lately that the new owner was going to stop even local people from using the estate , because poaching had been going on , and some of the deer had been found wounded . |
| 13 | The tortoiseshell cat was found wounded and frightened in Grangetown , Middlesbrough , and brought to an animal sanctuary . |
| 14 | WELLINGTON ( AFP , AP ) — Three New Zealanders and an American given up for dead were found alive yesterday after drifting for four months on an upturned trimaran in the south Pacific . |
| 15 | Luckily , they had survival gear and were found alive and well , albeit a trifle sheepish , at the top of the climb . |
| 16 | Engine failure north of Reggane and they might not be found alive . |
| 17 | His widow Sheila said last night she had hoped and prayed her missing husband would be found alive . |
| 18 | The Avila press believe , as do we , that had a proper search been conducted from the beginning , Jeremy would have been found alive . |
| 19 | Thorson ( 1941 ) suggests that living specimens have been found in W. Greenland , but he also cites the Azores amongst further distribution where they are not now found alive . |
| 20 | Stephen had gone out first , scrambling up the shaft , putting all his weight this time on the rope and wondering what would happen , whether they would ever be found alive , if the rope came unfastened from the spur of rock to which they had tied it . |
| 21 | THREE young men missing overnight after a speedboat trip were found alive today after a massive air and search in Cardigan Bay . |
| 22 | The opal allotoca , a two-inch fish species thought to be extinct , has been found alive and well in a large Mexican cattle pond . |
| 23 | , A blind , underground-dwelling spider species long thought to be extinct , Troglodiplura lowryi , has been found alive and well under the Nullabor Plains desert in South Australia . |
| 24 | He had first been found guilty of setting fire to an armoured personnel carrier commandeered by students and a car during the 19898 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing . |
| 25 | He was found guilty and sentenced to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 26 | At their trial in Pristina in February 1989 , all were found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 27 | If you are found guilty , the trial enters into its next very complicated part — the sentencing phase . |
| 28 | As he was found guilty of having intercourse with a girl of under 16 years of age , logic surely draws the conclusion that if she is unable to testify in court , she is unable to give informed consent to sexual intercourse ; in other words that the grounds on which the charge was dropped should have been the grounds on which rape was proven . |
| 29 | Victoria Carrington , 23 , of Northolt , west London , a convent-educated stockbroker who attacked a mother and daughter on an Underground train after they knocked into her newspaper was fined £400 by Knightsbridge magistrates and ordered to pay £600 compensation after being found guilty of assault . |
| 30 | He was found guilty of conspiracy to murder but not guilty of attempted murder . |