Example sentences of "found [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A survey by US federal scientists has recorded " total failure " to reproduce among colonies of murres — diving birds found widely in the northern Pacific . |
| 2 | He decided that he was never likely to do even as well as they and that he had better look for another career , which eventually he found successfully in the world of travel . |
| 3 | She was raped and then killed and a few days later her naked corpse found somewhere in the hills . |
| 4 | The second is directed towards the sculptured shapes found mostly in the aeronautical and motor industries . |
| 5 | According to the Scottish Agriculture and Fisheries Department , the cadmium level was only slightly higher than that found naturally in the area . |
| 6 | Rivalling the Indus River dolphin for the dubious distinction of most endangered dolphin , is the baiji or Chinese river dolphin , a little-known species found only in the Yangtze River . |
| 7 | Until recently , little was known about the tiny and endearing Hector 's dolphin , found only in the coastal waters of New Zealand . |
| 8 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 9 | In one found only in the West , e.g. in the course of excavations in the City of London , he appears as a handsome bull-slaying god , signifying the renewal of the world at the time of the New Year . |
| 10 | Simultaneously , it was being discovered that the ill-chosen or ill-formed materials and techniques used in the new build of the sixties was beginning to break down after only ten years : autopsies on building failures indicated that earlier cavalier attitudes to the intricacies of new technological phenomena such as interstitial condensation and concrete additives , called for newer skills and deeper understanding found only in the education and training of the building surveyor . |
| 11 | Almost identical in size and looks to this prosimian ancestor of ours is the extraordinary tarsier , a primate just six inches tall , found only in the high jungle canopy of Indonesia and the Philippines . |
| 12 | Sometimes it was known as the Char because of its sign — a crude but unmistakable painting of that fish found only in the deepest lakes — Buttermere being one — and already considered a fashionable delicacy in London . |
| 13 | Two patients in the non-constipated group had , during fasting , a rectal motor complex ( RMC ) , a cluster of contractions at a rate of 7–9/ min found only in the rectum ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 14 | Olimpia 's ground beetle , a green- and gold-coloured species found only in the Italian Alps , is facing extinction . |
| 15 | Spiritual congress of this kind is , in fact , found all over the world and throughout history — as the biographies of famous Christian and other mystics confirm and occurs more often than is generally supposed in our own contemporary Western world . |
| 16 | For GMSA we used a set of double stranded oligonucleotides ( see Fig. 4A ) containing the canonical octamer motif found in e.g. the adenovirus 4 origin of replication , the human histone H2B promoter , and the immunoglobulin heavy chain enhancer ( oligonucleotides Ad4 and D ) , the degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motif from the Ad2 origin of replication ( oligonucleotide Ad2 ) , the TAATGARAT motif from the HSV immediate early gene ICP4 ( oligonucleotides ICP4 and B ) , the degenerate octamer-TAATGATAT motif found upstream of the HSV ICP0 gene ( oligonucleotide C ) and a motif differing by a change from T to G converting the HSV ICP0 site to a perfect TAATGARAT motif ( oligonucleotide A ) . |
| 17 | The two or three families who had come without money or slaves and who had kept themselves rigorously segregated from the few black people they found already on the island , were still shunning newcomers . |
| 18 | The absence of spontaneous contractions in the normal gullet is related to the nature of the oesophageal smooth muscle cells , which have a stable membrane potential and do not show the characteristic slow wave activity found elsewhere in the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 19 | We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that . |
| 20 | the issue to be determined ( 8.4 ) ( 1.1 ) ; the expert 's qualifications ( 8.5 ) ( 1.1 ) ; that he is to act as an expert and not as an arbitrator ( 8.6 ) ( 1.3 ) ; how the expert is to be appointed ( 8.7 ) ( 1.1 ) ; that the decision will be final and binding ( 8.8 ) ( 1.3 ) ; the due date for payment of the amount determined ( 8.9 ) ( 1.3 ) ; that the expert has the power to award interest ( 8.10 ) ( 1.3 ) ; provision for interest to run for late payment of the amount determined ( 8.11 ) ( 1.4 ) ( sometimes found elsewhere in the agreement ) ; and how the expert is to be paid ( 8.12 ) ( 1.3 ) . |
| 21 | Post mortem examinations are being carried out on the two bodies found yesterday at the foot of a mountain ridge on the Isle of Skye . |
| 22 | Post mortem examinations are being carried out on the two bodies found yesterday at the foot of a mountain ridge on the Isle of Skye . |
| 23 | He did extend his stay , helped to arrange and classify the Sherard collection of plants , many obtained from Greece and Asia Minor , and found more in the Botanic Garden to take back to Holland . |
| 24 | The linguistic form there appears to excuse but in fact indicts her , a rhetorical device found also in the sonnets to the Friend . |
| 25 | If one can hazard one generalization from the responses to this question , it is that the early enthusiasm for undergraduate interdisciplinary ventures which was evident in the 1970s has now given way to a more ambivalent attitude , perhaps because the practical institutional and professional problems have become more evident , a view found also in the OECD ‘ Interdisciplinarity Revisited ’ report ( Levin and Lind 1985 ) . |
| 26 | Raw flint from the mines as well as finished artefacts were analysed , mainly hoards of flint axeheads found far from the mines , and there were some unexpected results ( fig. 6.5 ) . |
| 27 | The rally was certainly not for rookies , as we found out at the onset ; only the intervention of the King of Jordan could resolve some problems along the way . |
| 28 | When I take two and found out at the end of it there was a bit of erm Die Hard cos they 're a bit at this . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's this business of acceleration faking gravity again — what you found out on the Big Dipper . |
| 30 | It should cover fixed outbuildings , but , as many people found out during the hurricane of 1987 , it does not cover fences . |