Example sentences of "found to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the fins of fossil specimens are carefully dissected , the lobes at the base are found to be supported by one stout bone close to the body , two bones joined to it and finally a group of small bones — the pattern that is found in the limbs of all land vertebrates . |
| 2 | The overriding emphasis in all this work was on the ‘ network ’ , which in silicates was found to be made of regular chains or layers of SiO4 molecules sharing common oxygens . |
| 3 | May these , as we go to still higher energies , in turn be found to be made from still smaller particles ? |
| 4 | In addition , thromboxane B 2 levels were found to be elevated in the peripheral blood of patients with Prinzmetal angina ( Lewy et al , 1979 ; Robertson et al , 1981 ) and in coronary sinus blood of patients with unstable angina ( Hirsh et al , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | Ca 2+ levels were found to be elevated in synaptosomes prepared from potentiated dentate gyrus 45min after the induction of LTP , and this may explain the enhanced ability of potentiated synaptosomes to release preloaded transmitter . |
| 6 | Months after the accident , the town of Narodichi , well outside the no-go zone , was found to be polluted , when other towns within the zone were relatively free of radiation . |
| 7 | Two of Britain 's remaining areas of lowland heath , and a coastal marsh used by thousands of migratory birds , have been found to be polluted by contaminated water leaking from neighbouring household rubbish dumps . |
| 8 | Partly because if we explicate the concept of requesting , it will be found to be constituted of the very speaker beliefs and wishes listed in part in ( a ) - ( g ) ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 9 | If at any time after payment has been made by the Insurer in settlement of such claims the Insured Person is found to be living any sum so paid by the Insurer shall be refunded . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Most adults with cystic fibrosis were found to be living fulfilling lives into adulthood . |
| 12 | The subject of this care and protection order , then a minor , was found to be living , as man and wife , with her uncle — ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Other students joined in and before long , quite spontaneously , a crowd of some 200 or so was found to be singing lustily , with Leonard as the ecstatic , unselfconscious conductor . |
| 15 | The defence of the coastline had also to be seen to , and was not infrequently found to be wanting , most particularly when small forces of enemy soldiers attacked the English shore and ravaged villages and towns which they found undefended . |
| 16 | A second barrel was opened , and a third , but some said this was n't necessary , for it was the accepted custom that if one barrel was found to be wanting , the shortage was assumed to be the same in all the rest . |
| 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 | When Ronald Summerfield died three years ago his house and shop were found to be piled high with antiques he 'd collected over the years . |
| 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 | , The NRC ordered the indefinite shutdown of the Sequoyah Fuels plant in Gore , Oklahoma , after uranium was found to be leaking into the ground . |
| 21 | One broker was found to be operating from a telephone box at Heathrow airport . |
| 22 | On the first day of camp , 11 of the 13 patients from the UK ( including M7 ) were found to be colonised by P cepacia. 5 of these P cepacia-positive individuals have been traced and all are now colonised by the epidemic strain . |
| 23 | Rumours got around that a collector in Paris had one in a bank vault in the 1940s ; but this story was recently investigated , and was found to be based on a misunderstanding . |
| 24 | P C Raymond Hall was shot last November in North London when he tried to arrest Kelly and an accomplice who were in a lorry which was found to be packed with more than three tonnes of explosives . |
| 25 | When light which is polarised in a direction making an angle a with the optical axis falls on the crystal only a fraction unc of the beam is found to be transmitted . |
| 26 | Her brother ( patient 304 ) was found to be affected , but neither of their parents had any definite signs of the condition . |
| 27 | As shown in Fig. 4(A) and Fig. 4(B) , the P3A + variant was found to be expressed constitutively in all tissues analyzed , including skeletal muscle and thymus . |
| 28 | The ceremonial chains used by Cleveland County Council chairman Ted Wood and his wife Ruth was found to be gone just before noon yesterday . |
| 29 | He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them . |
| 30 | 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 . |