Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be found to be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is an inescapable fact that , despite all the care taken in passing legislation , some statutory provisions when applied to the circumstances under consideration in any specific case are found to be ambiguous . |
| 2 | High support was found to be associated with a low rate of illness , and a high level of events with a high rate of illness . |
| 3 | The twist to the story came when the old man was found to be a carrier of the very germs that he blamed the coloured people for bringing into the country . |
| 4 | The scale of disrepair disclosed by the survey affects all tenure sectors although , as usual , the condition in the private rented sector is worse than elsewhere ; for example , one in six dwellings in the private sector was found to be unfit for human habitation … |
| 5 | It would not be unusual , however , to provide ( Clause 7.02 ) that new capital should be provided in the same proportions as the original contributions unless otherwise agreedwhich would at any rate provide the basis for subsequent negotiation when additional funding is found to be required . |
| 6 | The concentration of lithocholic acid was found to be higher in patients with polyps than controls as was the concentration of total secondary bile acids ( Table II ) . |
| 7 | In a criminal case , if the accused person is found to be guilty , he or she may be fined or imprisoned ; the successful party in a civil case may be awarded damages or granted an injunction . |
| 8 | A cat suffering from alopecia was given an injection of a cortico steriod and a dog brought in by a near-hysterical owner was found to be only badly bruised . |
| 9 | In a pool of 30 WFS countries ( see Table 10 ) , the mortality of infants born less than 24 months after the preceding birth was found to be 80 per cent higher than that of infants fortunate enough to have been born after an interval of 24 to 47 months . |
| 10 | The stimulatory activity was found to be stable up to 60°C for 10 minutes . |
| 11 | The exit-entrance distinction was found to be more specific for depression , and people who attempted suicide not only had an excess of exit events , but also an excess of entrance events . |
| 12 | This fine division was found to be necessary especially in dealing with pupils or parents . |
| 13 | There is strong evidence from Butler and Stokes ' surveys that housing tenure over-determines party support , in relation to ‘ occupational class ’ : in council housing only 51 per cent of those in occupational classes I-IV with a partisan self-image were found to be Tories , as against 76 per cent in owner-occupied housing . |
| 14 | In nineteen eighty three , the yearly consumption was found to be seventy six million tonnes , so where would you mark that ? |
| 15 | While in the case of the press alternatives were difficult to find , in that of radio other stations existed that could be listened to if the national station was found to be boring or did not cater for listeners ' tastes . |
| 16 | Most adults with cystic fibrosis were found to be living fulfilling lives into adulthood . |
| 17 | Duodenal tissue contained more tissue type plasminogen activator than stomach tissue , but the concentration of urokinase type plasminogen activator in duodenal mucosa was found to be similar to that of the stomach ( Table I ) . |
| 18 | On a tactual version of the Formboard Test , in which wooden forms have to be fitted into spaces of the same outline shape , patients with right posterior damage were found to be much slower than those with damage to the left hemisphere ( De Renzi , Faglioni and Scotti , 1968 ) . |
| 19 | Even at the then much praised Alfort school , their four-year course was found to be too long . |
| 20 | However , the Conservative Government of 1922 was destined to prove an ill-fated one , for in May 1923 , only six months after assuming office , Bonar Law was found to be suffering from incurable cancer of the throat , and he immediately resigned . |
| 21 | Changes in firm valuation were found to be consistent with the tax-based models of capital structure . |
| 22 | But neither the second 1871 recommendation regarding widows , nor the order respecting deserted wives were generally implemented , as outdoor relief was found to be cheaper than taking children into the workhouse . |
| 23 | Armed with this tool for diagnosing asymptomatic carriers of the infection and those who had been infected in the past , several screening studies were undertaken in the early seventies , and to many people 's surprise the incidence of past and present infection was found to be very high amongst those attending departments of venereology or genito-urinary medicine . |
| 24 | In the matter of an application for a warrant of further detention ( H.C. , 1988 ) , the continued detention was found to be invalid as the stated reason was that the suspects might impede the arrest of others , a factor which was irrelevant in terms of section 37(2) . |
| 25 | Delivering the three modules in an integrated way was found to be a very useful method of assisting language learning . |
| 26 | High acidity of the duodenal contents has for a long time been found to be associated with gastric metaplasia , both in humans and in laboratory animals . |
| 27 | An expanding body of work does provide evidence of racial discrimination in medicine , and St George 's Hospital Medical School was found to be using a computer program to shortlist applicants that downgraded those with non-English names . |
| 28 | This inter-rater reliability was found to be 0.88 , which is high enough for results to be considered reliable . |
| 29 | This situation of mutual exclusion was found to be the case in a certain number of sentences in our corpus . |
| 30 | Unlike the German or British environment , the Dutch workplace was found to be multi-lingual from the smallest to the largest enterprises . |