Example sentences of "were [adv] found " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian weapons were rarely found south of the border and the guerrillas used mainly Japanese and American weapons . |
| 2 | He had gone on to remark that the Toraja combined various features which were rarely found together : they had hunted heads , believed in a celestial origin , practised a primeval megalithism , built sophisticated architecture and produced a unique written ( or , rather , carved-and-painted ) language , which very few scholars can read . |
| 3 | The eagles were afterward found dead … ’ |
| 4 | Sheep were generally found on the more upland areas and were often ‘ herded ’ rather than farmed by full-time farmer/shepherds . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Manuscripts of his treatise The Ladder of Perfection were passed from monastery to monastery and were soon found as far afield as southern France . |
| 8 | Analogous atypical results were soon found with patients . |
| 9 | Of course the transport-technology of Charles 's regime , as of any ancien régime , had its hazards : once crowns were mislaid in transit ( though unlike the baggage of the English King John three centuries later , they were soon found ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Police called the hunt for the killer the Forest Belt Case because the victims ' bodies were usually found in woods . |
| 12 | It had peg-like teeth that were usually found in fossils to be heavily worn from perpetually stripping branches of foliage . |
| 13 | Although they resembled the M Type they were usually found on the short workings on the Sutton and Mitcham routes . |
| 14 | We used to call them ‘ ebb-sleepers ’ because they were usually found resting on the rocks at high tide in small groups , each bird apparently asleep with its beak tucked under its scapulars . |
| 15 | For it was in St Jude 's Passage that such corpses as were picked up in Frizingley — whether they had been reported missing or not — were usually found . |
| 16 | Does my hon. Friend agree that probably the only economy in which full employment was implemented was the Soviet Union , where those who did not have a job were usually found somewhere to go , such as Siberia or the Gulag archipelago ? |
| 17 | And of course her misdeeds were always found out . |
| 18 | NCp7 and NCp7B were always found to provide the best protection against restriction enzyme digestion . |
| 19 | The cytoplasmic and filamentous granular stainings were always found concomitantly . |
| 20 | On the other hand many urban areas have sizable gardens and so may attract a greater number and/or diversity of common passerines than were once found here . |
| 21 | They were once found almost everywhere in Britain , but pollution of our rivers and the destruction of the otter 's natural habitat has meant that they 've disappeared from many parts . |
| 22 | Long before Doone came knocking on the door , Perkin could have decided , in case the girl 's body were ever found , to say he did n't remember her . |
| 23 | In 1941 the aircraft she was flying disappeared without trace , crashing in the sea near to the Thames estuary and neither she nor her aeroplane were ever found . |
| 24 | It may therefore be that , if a technique were ever found to evaluate the economic costs and benefits of innovative work design , it might reveal that in a number of cases such innovation had net costs , to management , rather than net benefits . |
| 25 | Test results show that some products which have been publicised as Alar-free by retailers and manufacturers were still found to contain Alar . |
| 26 | In the Northamptonshire village of Cogenhoe half the villagers recorded in 1618 were not there ten years later , and in the Suffolk parish of Horringer only two of the sixty-three family names recorded between 1600 and 1624 were still found in the parish register between 1700 and 1724 . |
| 27 | That riots and local socialism were both found in the most acutely stressed parts of the country is no accident . |
| 28 | The following items were both found on pasture-land . |
| 29 | However low levels of employment were also found among ex-carers particularly those in their fifties and sixties . |
| 30 | The couple were also forced to sell at a loss , the nearby post office and general store , which were also found to be contaminated . |