Example sentences of "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 | To imagine this is to be aware that the aggressive term which I have applied to Amis 's novelistic method , ‘ ventriloquism ’ , has the drawback of suggesting that when an author throws his voice , the character who receives it will necessarily be found to be inanimate , a dummy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The idea that families do not ‘ look after their own ’ is not found to be true in practice . |
| 6 | ( The asbestos had been built into the carriages to act as sound and heat insulation , but had of course later been found to be a health hazard . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The couple were also forced to sell at a loss , the nearby post office and general store , which were also found to be contaminated . |
| 9 | After it was unpacked the plaque was found to be missing . |
| 10 | It could be raised if found to be effective in achieving public interest objectives . |
| 11 | He was apparently found to be running a temperature , but after a long season of competing in the best company , he may be past his best . |
| 12 | He had come to supervise the slaughter of one of the nuns ' flocks which had been found to be infected with Salmonella typhimurium . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This assumes that all the women who are found to be carrying a child with Down 's syndrome will want to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If the transactions are found to be lawful and enforceable and interest rates remain high , the council stands to lose at least £69.1 million - the estimated negative value of its portfolio in February . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It would be too bad if the Panzers overran our positions and we were found to be in our stocking feet . |
| 20 | Among the Cheka people high intellectual standards combined with education and culture had not assumed the outward expression which I had found to be so hateful among the former Russian intellectuals … . |
| 21 | The Commissariat was found to be ‘ exceptionally developed ’ and full of ‘ a series of purely academic-parliamentary institutions ’ . |
| 22 | This new vision began to prove that the more you strip the documents the more mysterious they are found to be . |
| 23 | At the same time their insistence on otherness was found to be inseparable from a fear and disavowal of the same , or the proximate . |
| 24 | Dawson wrote this editorial after discussing the idea with Baldwin and MacDonald , both of whom he had found to be ‘ receptive ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The oligosaccharides have been found to be particularly concentrated in colostrum — the thick , creamy pre-milk that is produced by the breasts in late pregnancy and during the first few days after birth before the breastmilk proper comes in . |
| 27 | The work was carried out during the period 1980–1 and the existing building construction was found to be generally in good condition . |
| 28 | The essential structure of the mill — both masonry and timberwork — was found to be very sound . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |