Example sentences of "were found to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nineteen out of 20 claiming asylum were found to be ineligible when their claims were eventually examined . |
| 2 | The teeth also were found to be similar to the condition described after 29 months weathering : for a sample of 31 teeth , 25.8 per cent were split ( Fig. 1.6A , B ) and 9.7 per cent were chipped ( Fig. 1.6E ) ; 34.8 per cent of the incisors were broken . |
| 3 | Hygiene standards and practices were found to be appalling . |
| 4 | Oral and intragastric infusions of beer were found to be potent stimuli of gastric acid secretion , with a response of over 95% of that produced by pentagastrin . |
| 5 | Four out of every five problem drug users were found to be opioid users , the only other salient group being cannabis users , the majority of whom were known only through police arrests for possession ( see Table 2.2 ) . |
| 6 | Only two patients with Crohn 's disease were studied , however , and CD4 + /CD8 + ratios were found to be normal ; similar studies of T cells from inflamed mucosa of patients with Crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis have not showed any significant changes from controls . |
| 7 | After an examination procedure lasting on average 13 months , only about 9 per cent were found to be genuine political refugees , but many others stayed on illegally or were permitted to do so on humanitarian grounds . |
| 8 | They were found to be harmless and the drums were removed . |
| 9 | No words were found to be allowable in these positions , so instead the top-ranked string is stored . |
| 10 | The reason is that after the first attempts had been made , some types , such as C , D and E , were found to be unnecessary . |
| 11 | After ultrasound scanning including a functional assessment , 220 ( 78% ) patients were found to be suitable for percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 12 | Patients with stones of any composition , size and number contained in a thin walled gall bladder with a fasting volume greater than 15 ml were found to be suitable for percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 13 | Also , subjects were asked to describe the first meeting with a close friend or partner ; in this case all the persons described in the account were found to be favourable and the account are being made in retrospect . |
| 14 | The external services employed by the companies were found to be inadequate by 24% of the sample — specifically |
| 15 | The situation is more encouraging in the Netherlands , where parents were found to be involved in the care process ‘ to some extent ’ at least in 90 per cent of cases ; intensive involvement is , however , limited to 39 per cent of cases ( Ploeg and Scholte , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | In one study , some of the patients also had chemical sensitivities , and when the results for these patients alone were considered , 90 per cent were found to be deficient in a particular enzyme system . |
| 17 | According to many accounts , middle-class complacency was severely shocked by the evidence of the children 's condition : in Newcastle , for example , of 31,000 children registering for evacuation , 13% were found to be deficient in footwear and 21 % deficient in clothing ; in Scotland , 39% of children turned up in clothing that was ‘ bad or deplorable ’ . |
| 18 | When we excluded patients in whom a diagnosis of suffocation had been considered before referral 16 out of 68 ( 24% ) patients were found to be suffering abuse . |
| 19 | ‘ She also told me that Jamie and Gary were found to be unsuitable as bone-marrow donors for Donna . |
| 20 | The analyses that were constructed for these frescos were found to be useful in the examination of more famous works . |
| 21 | The state of the fundic wrap can be accurately assessed with the retroflexed endoscope , and shortly after fundoplication 8–9% of wraps were found to be defective . |
| 22 | With young children , a high proportion of questions seems to be beneficial ( Nelson 1973 ) , but in slightly older children at pre-school , questions were found to be detrimental to the maintenance of conversational exchanges ( Wood et al . |
| 23 | And in a study of births to girls aged 12–16 in hospitals of Liverpool , England , variations in the incidence of anaemia were found to be attributable to social class , not age . |
| 24 | Random insertions were found to be variable in their effect on timing . |
| 25 | Histamine receptors , indirectly measured by cAMP accumulation were found to be present on MKN45 , MKN45G but not C170 or LoVo ( Table III ) . |
| 26 | In this study , the usage rates for the lobon-gur solution were found to be poor , ( corroborating the findings of the programme monitors mentioned above ) ; less than 10% of all cases of diarrhoea had been treated with oral rehydration therapy . |
| 27 | However , of the significantly reduced number who were found to be poor , 68 per cent were pensioners ( table 5.1 of A. B. Atkison , ‘ Low pay and the cycle of poverty ’ , in Low Pay , ed . |
| 28 | Secondly , a much higher proportion of working-class women experiencing early loss and premarital pregnancy ( PMP ) were found to be depressed than women in the same group without PMP . |
| 29 | Covering 509 hectares immediately to the east of the city centre , 56 hectares ( 11 per cent ) were found to be vacant ( excluding land in temporary use ) . |
| 30 | Patients were considered to have cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy if at least two of four cardiovascular tests were found to be pathological . |