Example sentences of "[det] be found to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sandstone was quarried here at first , but later mined when this was found to be more economical than removing the ‘ overburden ’ — the rock and soil which has to be dug away in quarrying to get at the useful strata . |
| 2 | This was found to be a general feature of elastomers because of the presence in most polymers of water soluble impurities . |
| 3 | The chemical which supplies the colouring is dihydroscyanthraquinone , also called alizarin ; this was found to be a derivative of the hydrocarbon anthracene , from coal-tar . |
| 4 | The early mortality for elected admissions was point four percent and this was found to be significantly lower than the early mortality rate for emergency admissions which was two point four percent , some six times higher . |
| 5 | ( It used to be at more frequent intervals , but this was found to be too disruptive . ) |
| 6 | There are numerous examples of the poor quality of court-appointed lawyers ; John Young went to his death even though his trial lawyer had signed an affidavit admitting he had been ill-prepared at trial due to drug use , the recent break-up of his marriage and the discovery of his own homosexuality ; another attorney had his breath checked by the judge for signs of alcohol , another was found to be in contempt of court after arriving back from lunch drunk … and so I could go on . |
| 7 | Such is found to be the effectiveness of having a second person-in-role ( usually another teacher ) that Newcastle upon Tyne Drama Advisory Team have cultivated the idea of offering a ‘ character ’ to the local schools ( they call it ‘ Rent-a-role ’ , so that a class in a primary school , say , working on the topic of The Peasants ' Revolt can — with sufficient notice of course ! — ask one of the team to come into the school as Wat Tyler ) . |
| 8 | The Universal Decimal Classification was devised with a very fine specification , and as such is found to be useful for technical libraries and for information retrieval . |
| 9 | If any of these are found to be tractable , then they all are . |
| 10 | Hence vertical perspective cues provide the only consistent and reliable information about the distance to the surface and these were found to be more effective in practice for depth and size scaling . |
| 11 | In classical physics , if I measured each electron 's position as it was delivered they would all be found to be in the same place . |
| 12 | Many were found to be dead and the total casualties were reported to be about a hundred . |
| 13 | Little was found to be more than 150 Ma old . |