Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] found to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly for Sweden , three of the four variables are found to be significant — although the results generally for that country are less satisfactory than for the other three . |
| 2 | No words were found to be allowable in these positions , so instead the top-ranked string is stored . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | On the other hand , utilities were found to be insensitive to both unanticipated inflation and the unanticipated changes in the expected real long-term rate of growth of sales because this sector is highly regulated . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Hummingbirds and hawkmoths are largely associated with trees producing flowers near the forest floor , where noctuid moths are found to be important pollinators in the smaller species of Meliaceae and butterflies in such families as Rubiaceae . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The situation is more encouraging in the Netherlands , where parents were found to be involved in the care process ‘ to some extent ’ at least in 90 per cent of cases ; intensive involvement is , however , limited to 39 per cent of cases ( Ploeg and Scholte , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | Firstly , positive school experiences were found to be important . |
| 10 | Only two patients with Crohn 's disease were studied , however , and CD4 + /CD8 + ratios were found to be normal ; similar studies of T cells from inflamed mucosa of patients with Crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis have not showed any significant changes from controls . |
| 11 | The state of the fundic wrap can be accurately assessed with the retroflexed endoscope , and shortly after fundoplication 8–9% of wraps were found to be defective . |
| 12 | Three open sprinklers were found to be sufficient to stop even the most rapidly developing fire . |
| 13 | The external services employed by the companies were found to be inadequate by 24% of the sample — specifically |
| 14 | Sometimes the original number of volumes is found to be inconvenient and a work is compressed , and so that we can get ‘ four volumes in two ’ , ‘ eight volumes in four ’ , etc . |
| 15 | In cases where the assumption of equal variances was found to be unreasonable an approximate version of the two sample t test was adopted . |
| 16 | If bladder and testicles are found to be clear of disease , the most likely culprits are an adductor strain or osteitis pubis . |
| 17 | With young children , a high proportion of questions seems to be beneficial ( Nelson 1973 ) , but in slightly older children at pre-school , questions were found to be detrimental to the maintenance of conversational exchanges ( Wood et al . |
| 18 | It appears that most errors will be detected because none of the candidate strings is found to be allowable by the lexical look-up . |
| 19 | Many Kurds were found to be dead , variously reported as counted in hundreds and thousands . |
| 20 | After ultrasound scanning including a functional assessment , 220 ( 78% ) patients were found to be suitable for percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 21 | When we excluded patients in whom a diagnosis of suffocation had been considered before referral 16 out of 68 ( 24% ) patients were found to be suffering abuse . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | From these extensive and varied surveys the detrimental effects of ionizing radiations are found to be somatic ( manifest in the exposed individuals themselves ) and genetic or hereditary ( affecting descendants ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Four out of every five problem drug users were found to be opioid users , the only other salient group being cannabis users , the majority of whom were known only through police arrests for possession ( see Table 2.2 ) . |
| 26 | In 1868 a flood of unprecedented proportions washed away most of the caissons ( the strong cases keeping out water while the foundations are built ) while the Skerne 's trusses were found to be flawless . |
| 27 | The pattern of cell divisions was found to be invariant , every normal worm going through exactly the same pattern of cleavages to form the body . |
| 28 | The logarithms of both adenoma and carcinoma quotients in all cases were found to be linear functions of age , sex , and pseudomelanosis coli . |
| 29 | Last season £18,000 in bar takings were found to be missing but no culprit was ever found . |
| 30 | Patients were considered to have cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy if at least two of four cardiovascular tests were found to be pathological . |