Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] found to [be] " 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 | The ceremonial chains used by Cleveland County Council chairman Ted Wood and his wife Ruth was found to be gone just before noon yesterday . |
| 3 | Conditions in camps run by Croats , Moslems , and Serbs were described as equally deplorable ; Serbs were found to be running the majority of such camps . |
| 4 | Even dynamic centre-forward Kenny Mentle was found to be flat-footed and short-sighted . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Having enjoyed ‘ a string of celebrity lovers ’ , he apparently ‘ saw the light after multimillionaire basketball star Magic Johnson was found to be HIV positive . ’ |
| 7 | The overall rate of known opioid use in the adult population of Wirral was found to be almost 5 per 1,000 , but rates were clearly higher for males ( over 6 per 1,000 ) , 16–24-year-olds ( over 18 per 1,000 ) , and for the unemployed ( about 28 per 1,000 ) ( see Table 2.3 , p.22 ) . |
| 8 | Known opioid use in Wirral was found to be heavily concentrated in the larger , socially deprived communities . |
| 9 | When she disappeared , the charity 's bank account here in Britain was found to be empty . |
| 10 | ‘ She also told me that Jamie and Gary were found to be unsuitable as bone-marrow donors for Donna . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( Mary Magdalen is found to be an altogether more sympathetic role model ; she has a nice plain earthiness which seems to make more sense of our actual lived experience . ) |
| 13 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 14 | When forests in the Malay Peninsula ( Kuala Lompat ) and northern Borneo ( Sepilok ) were phytochemically compared , and the levels of nitrogen , fibre , total phenolics and condensed tannin , and degree of digestibility by both cellulase and pepsin determined for both young and old leaves of the canopy species from both places , that at Kuala Lompat was found to be more digestible in having higher nitrogen but lower fibre and phenolic levels . |
| 15 | No safety limits have been set for sediment contamination , but the level of lead in the North Sea was found to be 50 times greater than the global average . |
| 16 | The duplication of titles amongst the different types of institution studied in Sheffield was found to be very low , and in view of the fact that cooperative acquisition is not simple to introduce and that central purchasing agencies tend to delay orders , the authors recommended against it . |
| 17 | One minute , Mrs Doyle was found to be going along with arrangements to play it on a nine hole course and , soon after , it was cancelled altogether . |
| 18 | The NMR structure of CsA/CyP was found to be very different from one of the proposed models of the complex , differing in the CsA orientation relative to CyP by about 90° . |
| 19 | In addition , every stone circle in England and Wales was found to be within a mile ( 1.5 km ) of a surface fault or on an associated intrusion . |
| 20 | Doughty was found to be in breach of the rule which requires a rider to take all reasonable measures to ensure that his mount achieves the best possible placing . |