Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [be] found to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other species such as S.cerevisiae ( 6 ) , S.pombe ( 7 ) or Dictyostelium ( 8 ) , the repeated units were found to be more heterogeneous . |
| 2 | These magnetic anomalies were found to be hundreds of kilometres long and typically 20–30 km across , and it initially seemed that they were caused by alternating bands of weakly and strongly magnetized rocks . |
| 3 | In addition , thromboxane B 2 levels were found to be elevated in the peripheral blood of patients with Prinzmetal angina ( Lewy et al , 1979 ; Robertson et al , 1981 ) and in coronary sinus blood of patients with unstable angina ( Hirsh et al , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | Some mediums were found to be fraudulent but there seemed to be genuine phenomena underlying the whole business ; and it seemed to be the job of earnest doubters to come to grips with it despite its general slipperiness . |
| 5 | The Auditor General 's criticism of the excessive overlap between shifts , which in some hospitals was found to be too generous to allow only for handover and meal breaks , could be largely countered by establishing the correct balance of staff employed full-time with others employed on a part-time basis . |
| 6 | Some letters were found to be more often confused with other letters and these letters were deemed to share similar features E G , B and P were often confused whereas B and X were n't so you 'd be flashing either a series sequence of letters up , some of which shared features , some of which did n't , or we thought shared features , and then we saw whether they were confused or not , and this was taken to support the idea that features were extracted from the input , or that 's how we constructed the letters or characters that we were perceiving . |
| 7 | In addition , such lobes were found to be negative for the macrophage markers 5C6 and F4/80 ( ref.18 ) and the reticular fibroblast marker ERTR7 ( ref.16 ) . |
| 8 | These cells were probably lymphocytes , as similar cells in serial sections were found to be CD3+ , CD25+ . |
| 9 | On close examination by the American Consumers ' Union , some of these switches were found to be connected to no vital function of the machine whatever . |
| 10 | By the end of the war , the bodies of these cars were found to be very worn and loose . |
| 11 | These ratios were found to be mainly associated with recent returns on equity , growth rates and debt/equity ratios . |
| 12 | During the study period three patients were found to be sensitive to the elemental diet formula used to induce remission and a further patient proved to have profound salicylate sensitivity . |
| 13 | But in the two most acute categories of learning difficulties , severe and profound , these children were found to be over-represented by more than 300 per cent and just under 200 per cent respectively compared to native English speakers . |
| 14 | But in the two most acute categories of learning difficulties , severe and profound , these children were found to be over-represented by more than 300 per cent and just under 200 per cent respectively compared to native English speakers . |
| 15 | The long-established tendency for national populations to become more concentrated in large metropolitan centres and their surrounding hinterlands was found to be interrupted , if not broken : major cities were losing population not just from their older inner areas but from their whole city regions , while more remote rural areas with a history of depopulation began to record population growth for the first time for decades ( Morrison and Wheeler , 1976 ; Vining and Strauss , 1977 ; Vining and Kontuly , 1978 ; Brown and Wardwell , 1980 ; Fielding , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | Municipal incinerators were found to be a large source of dioxins . |
| 17 | Random insertions were found to be variable in their effect on timing . |
| 18 | A complex , migmatised metasedimentary sequence with calcsilicates and metavolcanic layers was found to be intruded by a synkinematic porphyritic granite . |
| 19 | The analyses that were constructed for these frescos were found to be useful in the examination of more famous works . |
| 20 | The logarithms of both adenoma and carcinoma quotients in all cases were found to be linear functions of age , sex , and pseudomelanosis coli . |
| 21 | In two large and representative necropsy studies the cumulative incidence of prostate cancer over all ages was found to be 32.9% and 18.2% . |
| 22 | In some respects these accounts are similar to those in the experimental situation where key characteristics were found to be a common strategy . |
| 23 | Members of a random sample of 1000 men aged 65 in 1955 were followed up and the numbers still alive after successive 5-year intervals were found to be as follows : Construct a life table for these men including estimates of life expectancy at the start of successive 5-year age periods . |
| 24 | In cases where the assumption of equal variances was found to be unreasonable an approximate version of the two sample t test was adopted . |
| 25 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 26 | Many Kurds were found to be dead , variously reported as counted in hundreds and thousands . |
| 27 | In nineteen ninety one , six thousand workplaces were found to be underpaying one or more workers . |
| 28 | Patients were considered to have cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy if at least two of four cardiovascular tests were found to be pathological . |
| 29 | Fragile protuberances like zygomatic processes and ascending rami were found to be broken , but most bones were still intact . |
| 30 | The non completion rate of non-standard entry mature students was found to be 15.2% which was lower than the corresponding figure for mature students who satisfied the general entry requirement which was 21.7% . |