Example sentences of "be found to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest accounting firms could be on the receiving end of proposed new penalties to prevent abuse of market power including fines of up to 10% of turnover — if they are found to be using predatory pricing . |
| 2 | This assumes that all the women who are found to be carrying a child with Down 's syndrome will want to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 3 | Two British crematoria have been found to be emitting levels of dioxins between 25 and 70 times current precautionary limits for new incinerators . |
| 4 | German officials reported on Jan. 29 that a German freighter , the Godewind , bound from Szczecin in Poland for Syria , had been found to be carrying 16 Czechoslovak-made T-72 tanks for the Syrian armed forces , apparently in contravention of the Czechoslovak government 's promise to end such transactions . |
| 5 | That evening there was another line-up , when , as a result of the medical tests , four more people were turned away , including the Spaniard Alex had kicked , who had been found to be suffering from bronchitis . |
| 6 | Long-stay hospital patients , especially the elderly and mentally ill , have been found to be suffering from malnutrition . |
| 7 | A government official told the Libyan news agency that large numbers of illegal immigrants had found their way into Libya by desert routes without passports and some had been found to be suffering from serious diseases . |
| 8 | Tiny Andrew Morrison , who was born nine weeks early at the Countess of Chester Hospital , is among 481 children treated by a junior doctor who has since been found to be suffering from TB . |
| 9 | THE most Anglo-Saxon of games has been found to be compromising with apartheid . |
| 10 | THE most Anglo-Saxon of games has been found to be compromising with apartheid . |
| 11 | Nevertheless among these peoples there are sometimes individuals , frequently sincere , who claim to have no belief in a ‘ god ’ of any kind , but who , notwithstanding this , will often be found to be living a life in accordance with at least some part of an organised religion , and doing so often quite unbeknown even to themselves . |
| 12 | However , syphilis is a systemic infection and , if the treponeme is looked for , it will be found to be affecting many different organs in the body , from the liver to the lungs and the brain to the bones . |
| 13 | If the young daughters of women with gonorrhoea are examined some 5 per cent will be found to be suffering from a gonococcal vulva-vaginitis . |
| 14 | However , if he is a currency speculator he may be found to be trading in currencies and as he resides in the United Kingdom it would be very difficult to show that the trade was carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | Under the no boundary proposal one learns that the chance of the universe being found to be following most of the possible histories is negligible , but there is a particular family of histories that are much more probable than the others . |
| 16 | In nineteen ninety one , six thousand workplaces were found to be underpaying one or more workers . |
| 17 | It took some time , but after 36 buns and a 40-ounce bottle of whiskey had been used up , the gulls were found to be reacting admirably and appeared to be enjoying the ‘ experiment ’ as much as the engineers . |
| 18 | Some of the individuals they trapped were found to be wearing rings already . |
| 19 | Judge Byron Robb chose it to rule that work on the cult 's nuclear bunkers in Montana had to stop , after their fuel oil tanks were found to be leaking . |
| 20 | Local education authorities which were found to be abusing their powers risked direct action by Whitehall , he said in a letter to 108 chief education officers in England . |
| 21 | Fourteen per cent of adults aged 16 and over — about 6 million altogether — were found to be looking after or providing regular help to someone who was sick , elderly or disabled . |
| 22 | Some of his patients were found to be drinking as many as 40 cups of tea a day ! |
| 23 | Most adults with cystic fibrosis were found to be living fulfilling lives into adulthood . |
| 24 | About half of the travelling families were found to be living on official local authority sites with only 28 per cent living on derelict land . |
| 25 | In 1813 a gang of student body-snatchers known as the Patent Leather Club or Brotherhood of the Knife were found to be stockpiling spare limbs in tubs of salt water in secret rooms off the High Street . |
| 26 | Apparently they were literally poised to arrest both Nigel and Kerry when the clothes were found to be missing from the cupboard this morning . |
| 27 | It would be a strange irony indeed if , as Europe left behind it the threat of nuclear war , that threat were found to be arising elsewhere in the world . |
| 28 | Uranium shutters , that shield the cobalt radioactive source until the patient is in position , were found to be crumbling . |
| 29 | One particular station , at Peach Bottom in Pennsylvania , had actually been officially stopped from operating after the control room staff were found to be falling asleep on the job . |
| 30 | World-wide co-operation in the matter of the venereal diseases was first formalized by the Brussels agreement of 1924 when the signatories undertook to provide a free treatment service for seamen of all countries who were found to be suffering from infection . |