Example sentences of "[was/were] found by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A partial solution to this problem was found by the Danish scientist Niels Bohr in 1913 . |
| 2 | Raybestos was found by the High Court to have violated six conditions of its planning permission . |
| 3 | The problem was found by the National Audit Office during an audit of the Social Fund , which provides loans to meet maternity expenses , funeral costs , heating during periods of cold weather , ‘ important ’ intermittent expenses , and in emergencies or disasters . |
| 4 | A long search ensued for similar formulae in terms of radicals ( that is , formulae involving unc and the coefficients of the given equation ) for the roots of equations of higher degree , but none appeared until the 16th Century when a formula for the cubic was found by the Italian Niccolo Fontana ( more commonly known as Tartaglia , " the stammerer " , because of a speech impediment brought about by injury in childhood ) . |
| 5 | Not long afterwards the solution of the general quartic ( or biquadratic ) equation was found by the Italian Ferrari and in 1545 both the cubic and quartic formulas were published in the Ars Magna of Jerome Cardan . |
| 6 | The original bill had received parliamentary approval on April 24 [ see p. 38161 ] but was found by the Constitutional Court on May 29 to be unconstitutional , in a ruling requested by President Arpad Göncz . |
| 7 | In this trial the polymeric diet was discontinued for ethical reasons when no improvement was found by the 10th day of treatment . |