Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [be] found to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 35,000 plant species were carefully screened for anti-cancer properties , and yew bark extract was found to be effective against tumours in mice . |
| 2 | While a higher proportion of temporary workers than of the total labour force were found to be women workers ( 6 per cent compared to 41 per cent ) , temporary workers were also ‘ considerably younger ’ than the generality of workers , largely because a high proportion of the former are still teenagers . |
| 3 | At the French Pyreneean cave of Niaux a bison painting in the Salon Noir was found to be 12,890 BP plus or minus 160 years old . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The site of maximally changed local blood flow was found to be in area 44 . |
| 6 | I am not aware of the details but the compulsory incident reporting system was found to be wanting and so was changed to a voluntary one . |
| 7 | As quarrying proceeded , an oblique section of a large cavern was gradually uncovered , and the infill sediments were found to be richly fossiliferous . |
| 8 | The variance within subjects and within biopsy samples was found to be higher for the BrdU method than the PCNA method , but the variance within crypts was equal ( Table II ) . |
| 9 | Histamine receptors , indirectly measured by cAMP accumulation were found to be present on MKN45 , MKN45G but not C170 or LoVo ( Table III ) . |
| 10 | Last season £18,000 in bar takings were found to be missing but no culprit was ever found . |
| 11 | Considering " all-cause cardiovascular mortality , " the exercise test was found to be moderately sensitive and moderately specific . |
| 12 | NUCLEAR Electric and the Hartlepool power station management are to be congratulated on their openness in reporting in their newsletter No 123 that a back-up cooling pump had failed a routine test because a fuel inlet was found to be isolated . |
| 13 | The daily faecal bile acid excretion was found to be significantly higher in the polyp group compared with cancer patients , while the difference between the polyp group and controls was of borderline significance ( Table III ) . |
| 14 | A fuel inlet isolating valve was found to be shut , putting a back-up cooling pump out of action . |
| 15 | By this time , therefore , the Forest Eyre was found to be a cumbersome and ineffectual engine , and was allowed to fall into desuetude : only two short eyres were held in the southern forests during the remainder of the century — in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire in 1348 , and in Hampshire and Wiltshire in 1355 . |
| 16 | One particular station , at Peach Bottom in Pennsylvania , had actually been officially stopped from operating after the control room staff were found to be falling asleep on the job . |
| 17 | Point counting can be done by preparing transparent overlay coordinate grids at various sizes ; eye strain is found to be less than with a petrographic microscope . |
| 18 | The Le Mans officials were blameless as their safety measures were found to be more than adequate , and the speed at which the injured were taken to hospital was also exemplary . |
| 19 | The RNA polymerases were found to be between 15% and 20% active using a titration with the strong T7A1 promoter at 9 nM in gel retardation assay ( described below ) . |
| 20 | As previously reported , the serum gastrin concentration was found to be high in the renal failure patients compared with those with normal renal function . |
| 21 | The ceremonial chains used by Cleveland County Council chairman Ted Wood and his wife Ruth was found to be gone just before noon yesterday . |
| 22 | The concentration of YCV-309 reducing by 50% platelet activating factor induced aggregation of human or rabbit platelets was found to be 10 - 7 M and this concentration was used in the in vitro studies on the dispersed pancreatic acini . |
| 23 | Later 32 season ticket slips were found to be forgeries . |
| 24 | The Solomon Islands health ministry has declared a water disaster in Honiara , the capital , after the tap water supplied by one of the city 's four water sources was found to be highly contaminated . |
| 25 | In nearly all of the other work residual pattern and colour vision was found to be extremely poor and only demonstrable after extensive training with special testing procedures . |
| 26 | Most studies of this type have yet to evaluate the efficiency of such species as dispersers rather than visitors or feeders , but in cloud forest of Costa Rica , where three pioneer tree species were found to be visited by six bird species , only three left seeds in a viable condition , the ‘ seed shadows ’ , found by radio-tracking , extending up to 500m from the parent tree . |
| 27 | The binary tree structure was found to be very straightforward to implement and use , but slow in look-up times , so multi-way trees were investigated . |
| 28 | The mains water tap was found to be turned on , and I gradually became aware of warmth emanating from the living room fireplace . |
| 29 | We demonstrated this statistically ( J. Milroy and Harris , 1980 ) : the data in table 5.5 , were subjected to the chi-squared test , and the difference between the distributions of meat items and mate items was found to be very highly significant . |
| 30 | A closely related peptide sequence was found to be present in all three GGF molecules , namely GGF-I peptides 2 and 7 , GGF-II peptide 12 and GGF-III peptide 13 . |