Example sentences of "[pron] was found to [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This provided the basis for contextual ratings , the most important of which was found to be long-term threat .
2 A custom-built Shetland Islands Council ferry , Westering Homewards , is lying unused on the mainland after she was found to be unsafe for the exposed 22-mile Atlantic crossing .
3 She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind .
4 When Valiant finally caught up with her in a Medway marina she was found to be clean .
5 Unfortunately , in 1959 it was found to be unsafe and alterations had to be made .
6 On Nov. 9 the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) was reported to have indicated that it would consider halting the shipment if it was found to be unsafe or shown to be vulnerable to accidents and piracy , as claimed by some IMO member states .
7 The ratchet-and-pawl device was quite effective in principle , but not robust or reliable enough in constant use , and it seems that , after he completed an engine to drive a mill owned by James Pickard at Snow Hill in Birmingham , it was found to be unsatisfactory , and a crank was substituted .
8 Indeed , it was found to be difficult sometimes to keep down the number of journals to a manageable size .
9 The reports created sufficient interest for Sontochin to be synthesized and tested by the American company , and it was found to be active against malaria in canaries .
10 It was found to be active but only in concentrations too high to be clinically acceptable .
11 When eventually the story was checked it was found to be false , evidently initiated as part of an intercommunal feud by a tribal group which held a grudge against the government .
12 But it was found to be valuable in conjunction with the newly-discovered antibiotic streptomycin ( see Chapter 9 ) .
13 Once again he was found to be innocent , but he was still kept under arrest .
14 He was found to be responsible for the gross mismanagement of oil earnings , and was also implicated in a number of political assassinations .
15 Although several differences in pretreatment characteristics of responders versus non-responders were observed , none of them was found to be significant .
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