Example sentences of "was found [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison , who was the wife of Michelle 's lover John O'Shaughnessy , was found stabbed 54 times at her flat in South London last year . |
| 2 | Hashemi , who was found carrying two kilos of heroin , agreed to co-operate with US officials to entrap Malik . |
| 3 | Each of three independent , stably transfected /bcl-2 cell lines was found to express high levels of Bcl-2 protein , as determined by staining with a monoclonal anti-Bcl-2 antibody ( see below ) , and to be relatively resistant to the lethal effects of serum deprivation ( Fig. 1a ) or staurosporine treatment ( Fig. 1b ) . |
| 4 | One specimen was found to have 5,000 times the expected concentration of plutonium in its flesh . |
| 5 | When DDT was found to have carcinogenic properties it , too , was restricted . |
| 6 | There was the fictitious crisis involving tourists dying of food poisoning in Portugal , and another concerning a foreign minister who vanished without trace in Budapest , and there was the Chilean dope smuggler arrested in Miami who was found to have sixteen wives . |
| 7 | The chamomile was found to have antiviral properties that aid recovery from the viral infections that are a common cause of the diarrhoea which , in turn , causes the dehydration . |
| 8 | The next day it was found dumped two miles away . |
| 9 | The car was found dumped 3 miles away . |
| 10 | A blood sample taken from her after the accident was found to contain 366 mgs of alcohol per 100 mls of blood . |
| 11 | The report includes details of work carried out on milk from two farms near Bolsover , Derbyshire , which was found to contain high levels of dioxins ( Chem . |
| 12 | The ban , effective from October , was introduced after an incident in which the water discharged by a British coaster into Amsterdam harbour was found to contain high levels of heavy metals and other pollutants . |
| 13 | His car was found to contain 19.93 kilos of cannabis resin , with a street value of £65,000 . |
| 14 | Near Speeton , the upper part of the Speeton Clay was found to contain thin seams of volcanic ash that , in rocks of about the same age in southern England , have been concentrated into commercially attractive occurrences of fuller 's earth . |
| 15 | Much later , in 1892 , a sealed bottle of this isoprene was found to contain yellowish lumps which appeared to be similar to natural rubber . |
| 16 | Later still it was found covering extensive areas of the sea floor south of Ireland . |