Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] found to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blood was cross-matched and was in fact needed for a transfusion prior to surgery because Mr Reynolds was found to be anaemic . |
| 2 | Even dynamic centre-forward Kenny Mentle was found to be flat-footed and short-sighted . |
| 3 | Councillors have revealed that 293 people in Hartlepool were found to be homeless and in priority need in the first three quarters of 1991/92 compared to 320 in the whole of the previous year . |
| 4 | When she disappeared , the charity 's bank account here in Britain was found to be empty . |
| 5 | ‘ She also told me that Jamie and Gary were found to be unsuitable as bone-marrow donors for Donna . |
| 6 | To take a genuine historical example , it was over seventy years before Copernicus 's prediction about the phases of Venus was found to be correct , and several centuries before the Copernican prediction that the fixed stars should exhibit parallax was confirmed . |