Example sentences of "it [be] found to [be] " in BNC.

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1 This costs £26.64 ( £29.65 in London ) , but you get a refund if it 's found to be faulty .
2 But if one looks for Britain 's centre of gravity , it is found to be nearer the first in each pair of choices above .
3 In short , a mere breakdown in a working relationship does not in itself justify dismissal unless , after a reasonable attempt to effect a reconciliation , it is found to be beyond remedy .
4 The scale-invariant components of the Weyl tensor are given by ( 10.41 ) For the sake of later discussion , it is found to be appropriate to choose the scale functions A and B defined by ( 6.2 ) and ( 6.14 ) to be ( 10.42 ) The negative signs are due to the signs of f' and g' .
5 However , for the class of Gowdy cosmologies , it is found to be convenient to consider the class of solutions given by ( 10.64 ) where and are arbitrary linear combinations of the terms in curly brackets , including the Fourier-Bessel integrals of the form ( 10.65 ) and are Bessel functions of the first and second kinds of zero order , and and are sets of arbitrary constants .
6 If it is found to be impossible to reconcile such differences then the public interest and the maintenance of professional standards must be the primary considerations .
7 If it is found to be impossible to reconcile such differences then the public interest and the maintenance of professional standards must be the primary consideration .
8 The fault media item can be physically inspected and , if it is found to be usable , its state can be updated using option 9.3.0 to make it available to LIFESPAN .
9 But when they sent the specimen to the Natural History Museum it was found to be the intestine of a hedgehog , if you will pardon the expression .
10 The decision to dynamite the rock , using five tons of explosives , was taken last week after it was found to be moving at an accelerated rate .
11 However , the following day , when the floorboards were removed to examine the beam , it was found to be so deeply cracked in two places that they ascribed the fact that it had not given way to a ‘ wonder of [ God 's ] providence ’ .
12 Unfortunately , in 1959 it was found to be unsafe and alterations had to be made .
13 The reports created sufficient interest for Sontochin to be synthesized and tested by the American company , and it was found to be active against malaria in canaries .
14 But it was found to be valuable in conjunction with the newly-discovered antibiotic streptomycin ( see Chapter 9 ) .
15 It was found to be active but only in concentrations too high to be clinically acceptable .
16 It was found to be without effect .
17 Indeed , it was found to be difficult sometimes to keep down the number of journals to a manageable size .
18 On analysis it was found to be composed of 90.26% copper and 9.16% tin , with a loss of 0.13% .
19 They regretted that there appeared to be no suitable places of safety in Orkney if it was found to be absolutely necessary to remove children from their homes .
20 When eventually the story was checked it was found to be false , evidently initiated as part of an intercommunal feud by a tribal group which held a grudge against the government .
21 One unit lost over £50 , 000 when the scheme was introduced , because it was found to be doing much less teaching than had been estimated .
22 He started accusing everyone from Sam Gristy to Jan Treffry himself of meddling with his fish barrels , and insisted on one of Sam 's barrels being opened as well ; but when it was found to be brim full Martha told him in plain terms that as far as she was concerned , he had lost the contest .
23 When we looked at the cu cumulative percentage mortality and major morbidity it was found to be significantly less in those sites performing more than one hundred operations , compared to those sites performing less than one hundred operations , during the audit period .
24 And then there was a study into and area of Belfast where most of the men were unemployed and it was the women who were going out to work in the factory and it was found to be the other way round , and the women spoke more of a non-standard than the men did when the men were staying at home .
25 The ratchet-and-pawl device was quite effective in principle , but not robust or reliable enough in constant use , and it seems that , after he completed an engine to drive a mill owned by James Pickard at Snow Hill in Birmingham , it was found to be unsatisfactory , and a crank was substituted .
26 Some years previously , however , a long tunnel , North Cross-cut , was taken off ( along a fault ) from a point further along the Deep Level ( see Fig. 19a ) to try the Dry Gill Vein — at the intersection it was found to be a barren quartz string .
27 Measures during September to enforce the trade embargo at sea included ( i ) US action on Sept. 4 to stop the Iraqi freighter Zanubia , carrying tea from Sri Lanka , which was re-routed without the cargo being impounded ; ( ii ) the searching of the tanker Faur in the Gulf of Oman on Sept. 14 ; ( iii ) warning shots fired on Sept. 27 by a US naval vessel prior to the boarding by US Marines of the Iraqi tanker Tadmur , which was allowed to proceed after it was verified that it carried no cargo ; and ( iv ) the first UK action , on Sept. 30 , when HMS Jupiter stopped an Indian merchant vessel , Akebar , off Qatar , on its return from delivering humanitarian food supplies , but allowed it to proceed after it was found to be carrying refugees and was declared free of contraband .
28 On Nov. 9 the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) was reported to have indicated that it would consider halting the shipment if it was found to be unsafe or shown to be vulnerable to accidents and piracy , as claimed by some IMO member states .
29 Although this is rarely the sole cause of the iron deficiency , in one study it was found to be a contributing factor in 57% of patients .
30 However , as it was found to be the lack of care which followed the loss of a parent , rather than the loss itself , which explained the child 's increased risk of depression in adulthood , the same vulnerability can be expected to result from lack of care in intact family homes ( Harris et al. , 1986 ) .
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