Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] found [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Importing jute from India , its merchants found that this could be mixed with whale oil to provide hard-wearing coarse fabric .
2 A study by Tom Copeland , a finance academic turned consultant at McKinsey , of six LBOs among its clients found that half of the value created in the buy-outs came as a result of unexpected falls in interest rates .
3 Qureshi and Walker ( 1986 , p. 115 ) in a survey of people over 75 , and their carers found that caring could be a difficult experience for both parties : the lack of alternative resources drove people together , imposing dependency .
4 Emile Zola declared that ‘ our artists must find the poetry of stations as their fathers found that of forests and rivers ’ and the station has been securely enshrined in every aspect of art and culture .
5 When subjects are woken from REM sleep and questioned about their dreams Edwin Kahn and his associates found that the incidence of reporting colours increased to 70 per cent .
6 Maslow in his experiments found that amongst his highest men and women ( those who had fulfilled themselves in life ) there were two distinct groups .
7 There are also sparsely distributed , highly nutritious fruits , and Bell and his colleagues found that only the Thomson 's gazelle eats much of these .
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