Example sentences of "[adj] and find that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I questioned the bishop about this and found that the monument needed immediate attention but was not of a high priority and no funds were available . |
| 2 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 3 | After this time they doubled the amount of current and found that the energy books almost balanced . |
| 4 | I have tried them all and find that the first method suits me best . |
| 5 | It was n't an act of vanity , or even a professional kind of analysis ; it was more with the unease of a person who picks up something familiar and finds that , at some unrealised point in the recent past , it has somehow been exchanged for the property of a stranger . |
| 6 | Gedge told The Legend ! in an NME interview in April 1986 : ‘ When we play live I can sometimes come across as glib or arrogant and find that people take exception to what I say when all I 'm trying to do is talk to the audience . ’ |
| 7 | I tried the clean channel ( channel 1 ) first and found that , good as its word , it remained clean , surviving all I could throw at it . |
| 8 | Duncan and McCarthy examined data for the period 1956–70 and found that ‘ strike activity peaked , as expected , during the last quarter of the financial year but it was also at a very high level ( not expected ) during the first quarter . ’ |
| 9 | He tore it open and found that it was n't empty , just that the fine powder inside took up so little space . |
| 10 | She was more than a little astounded , however , that , as Naylor stood facing her in the hall of her home , she should suddenly feel breathless and find that she was extending that courtesy even further . |
| 11 | Even then we would play it a bit too close and find that some unforeseen emergency would send us scrambling around looking for something we could sell to avoid starvation . |
| 12 | Joshi and Owen ( 1981 , pp. 106–7 ) studied the labour force participation of successive cohorts of women in Britain from 1950 to 1974 and found that it was motherhood , rather than marriage , which determined the length of women 's lives in paid work with Ms Average withdrawing from the labour market for seven years . |