Example sentences of "[pers pn] be found to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 3 | When Valiant finally caught up with her in a Medway marina she was found to be clean . |
| 4 | They were found to be harmless and the drums were removed . |
| 5 | On Aug. 17 , US naval vessels intercepted two Iraqi coasters in the Gulf , but allowed them to proceed after they were found to be empty ; on Aug. 18 , US vessels fired warning shots across the bows of two Iraqi tankers in the Gulf of Oman . |
| 6 | The northerners thought the others posh and ‘ mardy ’ ( affected ) , while in return they were found to be coarse and vulgar . |
| 7 | They were found to be wet through but well . |
| 8 | This costs £26.64 ( £29.65 in London ) , but you get a refund if it 's found to be faulty . |
| 9 | The scale-invariant components of the Weyl tensor are given by ( 10.41 ) For the sake of later discussion , it is found to be appropriate to choose the scale functions A and B defined by ( 6.2 ) and ( 6.14 ) to be ( 10.42 ) The negative signs are due to the signs of f' and g' . |
| 10 | If it is found to be impossible to reconcile such differences then the public interest and the maintenance of professional standards must be the primary considerations . |
| 11 | If it is found to be impossible to reconcile such differences then the public interest and the maintenance of professional standards must be the primary consideration . |
| 12 | The fault media item can be physically inspected and , if it is found to be usable , its state can be updated using option 9.3.0 to make it available to LIFESPAN . |
| 13 | However , for the class of Gowdy cosmologies , it is found to be convenient to consider the class of solutions given by ( 10.64 ) where and are arbitrary linear combinations of the terms in curly brackets , including the Fourier-Bessel integrals of the form ( 10.65 ) and are Bessel functions of the first and second kinds of zero order , and and are sets of arbitrary constants . |
| 14 | It is no good the Minister , whenever he is found to be wanting and to be wrong , starting to hurl abuse across the Chamber or making allegations that have absolutely no substance . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , in 1959 it was found to be unsafe and alterations had to be made . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Indeed , it was found to be difficult sometimes to keep down the number of journals to a manageable size . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was found to be active but only in concentrations too high to be clinically acceptable . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But it was found to be valuable in conjunction with the newly-discovered antibiotic streptomycin ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 23 | Once again he was found to be innocent , but he was still kept under arrest . |
| 24 | He was found to be responsible for the gross mismanagement of oil earnings , and was also implicated in a number of political assassinations . |
| 25 | Although several differences in pretreatment characteristics of responders versus non-responders were observed , none of them was found to be significant . |