Example sentences of "found [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SIX-MONTH step-up in checks on the Solway Firth foreshore near Annan after five small radioactive particles were found has resulted in others being located . |
| 2 | While other chaps sing the praises of Meryl Streep , Joely Richardson or Gabriela Sabatini , I 'm much more likely to be found getting worked up over worms . |
| 3 | Despite this precaution it was found to have developed a brownish-orange rim as a result of atmospheric exposure . |
| 4 | When tested at the end of the first year they were found to have developed on average at about half the rate that is usual , though there were indications that at birth they had been potentially normal . |
| 5 | If the surety is a customer or if the creditor assumes the röle of advisor , it may be that the creditor will be found to have owed a contractual or tortious duty of care to the surety . |
| 6 | The tortious liability of the appointing authority under Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd [ 1964 ] AC 465 would have to be investigated , with the probable result that the authority would be found to have owed a duty of care : see 14.11 . |
| 7 | After only a week of this treatment complex molecules were found to have formed in the mixture , including sugars , nucleic acids and amino acids , the building blocks of proteins . |
| 8 | It is a cruel irony of the Battle of Verdun that the outlying forts that Joffre , deeming them useless , had stripped of their guns , were found to have withstood constant bombardment by both sides for many months almost unscathed . |
| 9 | Two patients with symptoms characteristic of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were found to have inherited prion protein disease ( PrP lysine 200 ) , with a mutation at codon 200 of the prion protein gene . |
| 10 | If the embryo is found to have matched CF genes , the parents will then be offered a termination . |
| 11 | Reid was found to have made ‘ foul comments ’ to the referee , George Tyson , at the end of QPR 's match against Manchester City on 9 September , while Caesar 's punishment follows his sending-off during Arsenal 's pre-season friendly against Independiente in the United States . |
| 12 | The system I would like to see is solicitors being given the job of approving up to £500 of legal aid work , with spot checks on quality , taking off any who are found to have abused it . ’ |
| 13 | In the IBM case , IBM was considered by the Commission to hold a dominant position ( inter alia ) in the supply of two key products for a particular computer system , and was found to have abused its dominant position by refusing to supply other manufacturers in sufficient time with technical information to permit the interfacing of those other products with IBM equipment , particularly by tying in the supply of IBM software and hardware and by discriminating between users of IBM software . |
| 14 | Akzo , the Dutch multinational chemical company , was found to have abused its dominant position in a particular chemical market by reducing its prices with the objective of driving out of business a competitor in the market in which Akzo held a dominant position . |
| 15 | The banks were found to have delayed interest rate cuts to individual customers and small businesses to keep up profits . |
| 16 | In June a settlement agent in Fort Worth , Texas , was indicted for embezzlement , an agent in Birmingham , Alabama , was found guilty of the theft of $168,000 , and a computer operator in Denver , Colorado , was found to have transferred $313,127 in HUD funds to his own account . |
| 17 | All the mothers of the affected children were found to have eaten fish contaminated with trichlorophon , which has been found to cause birth abnormalities in rodents . |
| 18 | The group is asking the commission to reopen its inquiry into the environmental consequences of the road and believes the case could still be referred to the European Court of Justice if the government is found to have infringed EC directives . |
| 19 | When the skulls in the crypt of St Bride 's Church were disinterred the wisps of hair remaining on them were found to have turned bright orange . |
| 20 | Royal Gait , the first novice to win the Champion since 1956 , was rested after Cheltenham when he was found to have aggravated a splint in his near-fore but he is fully fit again . |
| 21 | The Zoe Baird mini-scandal , in which Bill Clinton 's first candidate for attorney-general was found to have employed two illegal Peruvians as household helps , shows how feebly the law applies in middle-class suburbs . |
| 22 | Thin veils of smoke , detected by satellite as far away as southeastern Pakistan , 2000 km east of Kuwait , were found to have risen to heights of between 6 and 7 km . |
| 23 | When the BBC surveyed four thousand drug users and their families in 1986 , half of the users were found to have broken free from their addiction . |
| 24 | Nor , for the same reason , can he succeed upon his broader submission that the publicity now given to these documents has so eroded their privacy that the public interest in their future non-disclosure should be found to have evaporated . |
| 25 | In addition , those who move frequently have been found to have increased risk for some forms of both chronic and infectious disease . |
| 26 | He became unwell and was found to have contracted a rare form of food poisoning that attacks the kidneys . |
| 27 | After landing , the aircraft was found to have split fabric and extensive minor damage to the wings , which could only be attributed to overstressing at high speed . |
| 28 | Both factories were tested in the six TNT principles and were found to have achieved the most improvements in a six month period . |
| 29 | At laparotomy , performed after a period of attempted stabilisation , the whole of the stomach and omentum was found to have herniated into the left hemithorax . |
| 30 | In April 1957 , when what remained of the work was being cleared up , some specimens which had been laid by to crystallize were found to have done so , and so they were sent for pharmacological investigation . |