Example sentences of "find [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wide-spaced eyes were dark and brooding , but there was a softness in them which mirrored his nature and which his wife Carrie found to be comforting and reassuring . |
| 2 | State 6 to State 4 — usually after a faulty item has been checked ( eg. cleaned ) and found to be good , but it is decided that no further data should be added to the item . |
| 3 | State 6 to state 4 — usually after a faulty item has been checked ( eg. cleaned ) and found to be good , but it is decided that no further data should be added to the item |
| 4 | One reason for this may be the doctrine of corporate liability in English criminal law ( discussed in Chapter 4.3 , and found to be unsatisfactory ) ; in particular , it may be difficult to establish the fault necessary for manslaughter , although easier to secure a conviction under legislation on railways or merchant shipping . |
| 5 | This had already been tried and found to be unsatisfactory with the old Vigilant . |
| 6 | A statement of law which , although based on facts found to be relevant by the court , does not form the basis of the court 's decision , e.g. a dissenting speech in the Court of Appeal or House of Lords . |
| 7 | Anyone found to be susceptible to another serious heart attack can then be treated with drugs or with an electrical implant to regularise the heartbeat . |
| 8 | These changes introduced by 12 year-old children are precisely the type of text feature which Marshall and Glock found to be essential if poor readers were to learn all they could from a passage . |
| 9 | In that time , we were tied to the gold standard , which we found to be inadequate and inflexible , especially as it depended in part on the mining activities in the gold mines of South Africa and the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | This is because when there is an actionable nuisance the law provides a legal remedy by way of injunction or damages and this it is not prepared to do in respect of every odour found to be annoying or objectionable ; neither would it be practicable especially since odours are notoriously subjective in nature affecting some individuals and not others and causing a variety of symptoms . |
| 11 | An examination of the parenting arrangements following loss of mother showed that indifference and a low level of control had characterised the childhood experiences of a number of the women found to be depressed . |
| 12 | For instance , apart from the group labelled ‘ other neurotics ’ , a high rate of broken homes was characteristic of the whole group of adults with disorders when compared to child guidance patients found to be well as adults . |
| 13 | The exhilaration soon faded upon checking his fuel state , which he found to be low . |
| 14 | Of particular interest in this case is the fact that as part of a nutritional screen serum and red cell glutathione concentrations were measured and found to be low . |
| 15 | The Federation of Small Businesses is asking local authorities to use the discretion available to them to offer rates relief to businesses found to be suffering hardship . |
| 16 | The ‘ artificial circumstance ’ of the theatre and of ‘ live ’ variety allowed some middle-class observers a safe glimpse into that ‘ tumult and promiscuity ’ which Arnold Bennett found to be typical of American hotel lobbies and which most respectable people took to be the hallmarks of the new city . |
| 17 | Its chemical composition was determined at the Rockefeller Institute in New York and found to be identical with the material synthesized at the Winthrop laboratories 3 years earlier . |
| 18 | Some parts of the blueprint will have been tried and tested , and found to be reliable . |
| 19 | The smallest tank found to be adequate to breed a large pair of cichlids was 36″ × 15″ × 15″ and one author had six of these tanks running with deep bed undergravel filtration with no serious problems for the five years . |
| 20 | Firefighters formed a human chain to carry the four brothers to safety but they found to be dead at hospital . |
| 21 | The woman was trapped in the car and found to be dead by emergency teams . |
| 22 | ‘ The vast majority of cases found to be positive are due to household products which can be bought from the chemist and the player is then simply given a telling off . |
| 23 | A test performed at a reputable clinic — and found to be positive — is checked by doing further test on the same sample using different methods to detect HIV antibodies . |
| 24 | In other words , 67% of the urine samples found to be positive on culture were judged at the time of voiding to be clear . |
| 25 | For an exposure to a source found to be positive for HBsAg , the employee who has not previously been vaccinated should receive the hepatitis B vaccine series . |
| 26 | By arranging the samples to be tested in a two-dimensional array , either physically or conceptually , pooling the samples in both columns and rows ( figure ) , and doing PCR on the pooled samples and those individual samples found to be positive by ‘ grid referencing ’ , it is possible to increase the efficiency of screening . |
| 27 | ‘ A local housing authority may perform any duty under section 65 or 68 ( duties to persons found to be homeless ) to secure that accommodation becomes available for the occupation of a person — ( a ) by making available accommodation held by them under Part II ( provision of housing ) or under any other enactment , ( b ) by securing that he obtains accommodation from some other person , or ( c ) by giving him such advice and assistance as will secure that he obtains accommodation from some other person . |
| 28 | ‘ A local housing authority may perform any duty under section 65 or 68 ( duties to persons found to be homeless ) to secure that accommodation becomes available for the occupation of a person — ( a ) by making available suitable accommodation held by them under Part II ( provision of housing ) or any enactment , or ( b ) by securing that he obtains suitable accommodation from some other person , or ( c ) by giving him such advice and assistance as will secure that he obtains suitable accommodation from some other person , and in determining whether accommodation is suitable they shall have regard to Part IX ( slum clearance ) , X ( overcrowding ) and XI ( houses in multiple occupation ) of this Act . |
| 29 | Cases included 7,000 tons of ash from a Berlin power plant which was sent to be mixed with cement but found to be radioactive . |
| 30 | Another helpful procedure would be to let children who are learning to read silently have some experience of reading aloud , to one another , passages of their own choosing , not ‘ from cold ’ , as a test of reading skill , but after they have become familiar with a text in general terms and have perhaps had a chance to look closely at syntax or vocabulary found to be perplexing . |