Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] found that the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If it were found that the BEF was indeed across the River Marne and moving into the gap between Kluck and Bülow , then Bülow should retreat to the River Aisne .
2 When the piles were examined it was found that the bones of condemned men were also placed here , some of the skulls showing clear signs of decapitation .
3 It was found that the decision of the GMC to prevent advertising in the press was a lawful exercise of the statutory powers conferred on it by s35 of The Medical Act 1983 , and that if a statutory power was exercised intra vires , reasonably and in accordance with the purpose of the Act conferring the power , ( even though it restricted the plaintiff 's freedom to trade or practice his profession ) the court could not review the exercise of the power on the basis that it caused a restraint of trade , since the exercise of the power in accordance with the policy and the purpose of the Act could not be contrary to public policy and any review by the court would be unconstitutional .
4 In their use of the test it was found that the order of salience of certain roles varied between different cultural groups .
5 It was found that the substance of the matter and not only mere theory was to be regarded .
6 It was found that the HsdM and HsdS subunits were present in an excess over the HsdR subunit for both the wild type and the temperature-sensitive systems .
7 This drug was discovered in the 1940s when it was found that the omission of certain fresh foods , including greens from the diet of chicks results in the development of ulcers .
8 It was found that the machine had been purchased by a Sultan in the Middle East , but its whereabouts could not be discovered .
9 When the train had stopped , it was found that the child 's body was lying on one side of the rails but his head had been completely severed from the body .
10 In the late 1960s it was found that the drug amphetamine could induce some of the symptoms of schizophrenia in otherwise normal subjects .
11 When the LI% was analysed before and after the trial ( Table II ) it was found that the total LI% or compartmental LI% did not change over the one month period in the absence of supplementation ( Figs 1 and 3 ) .
12 Although it was found that the defendants had been at fault , Atkinson J. considered that , irrespective of this , the defendants would have been liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher .
13 In a major study of sexual offences conducted by the Cambridge Institute of Criminology between 1950 and 1954 in which 3000 cases involving sexual offences were investigated , it was found that the proportion of offenders recorded by the police as having committed carnal knowledge of girls aged 13 to 16 who were not brought before the courts was much higher ( 46 per cent. ) than for men charged with other heterosexual offences ( 12 per cent . ) .
14 An attempt to determine the relationship was described in Chapter 4 , and it was found that the A-measure varies roughly linearly with the radiometer reading over a wide range of exposures .
15 When they were looked at in more detail it was found that the colonies grew from one single tube ( sicula ) which is often facing in a different direction from the tubes inhabited by the rest of the colony ( see below ) .
16 It was found that the heatflow , or rate at which heat is moving upwards through the Earth 's crust , is several times higher along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge than on the ocean floor on either side .
17 The planning department 's scanning of business information could duplicate that done by the business units but it was found that the planners were more concerned with understanding the structure of industries and markets rather than with more detailed facts .
18 In five of the six companies it was found that the planning department could be involved in special projects on an ad hoc basis .
19 In a study in which children 's eye movements were recorded while they scanned an array and listened to messages to focus on items in the array ( Lloyd , 1983 ) , it was found that the number of shifts between the items in the referent array varied significantly as a function of message adequacy .
20 In splendid confirmation of Vine and Matthews 's hypothesis , it was found that the age of each sample was proportional to its distance from the mid-ocean ridge .
21 When specific immunoassays for the measurement of PLA2 became available , it was found that the concentration of immunoreactive pan-PLA2 is nearly always increased in the early stages of acute pancreatitis .
22 In addition , it was found that the breach was caused by the negligence of the defendants , and that it would have been relatively easy for the defendants to insure against potential liability to the plaintiffs .
23 However , when the patients were divided into those with good control ( HbA lc <9 per cent ) and bad control ( HbA lc <9 per cent ) it was found that the group with poor control had a significantly reduced platelet-aggregate ratio .
24 More disasters followed , when it was found that the track had been laid slightly out-of-gauge , and all of the new cars 27–41 broke their axles in the first two weeks .
25 On investigation it was found that the horse watched his questioner and judged when to stop tapping according to the questioner 's inclination of the head and facial expression .
26 As early as the 1880s , it was found that the Commons could not adequately examine and comment on the estimates .
27 In those days , there existed no bridges across the River Thames above the old London Bridge and the ferry at Chiswick was much favoured because it was found that the Eyot broke the stream during up-tide .
28 It was found that the parish of Westoning was in arrears and the patient was ineligible .
29 It was found that the results were the outcome of some basic mistakes in observation and calculation of the data .
30 The shock/horror disclosure that children were watching video nasties in vast numbers was severely criticised when it was found that the research had undergone a little trimming with a chain-saw here and there .
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