Example sentences of "[pron] was find that " in BNC.
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| 1 | MAY I take this opportunity to say how relieved I was to find that the August 1992 issue of your splendid magazine was largely free of the indefatigable hostility directed towards rugby league football by its immediate predecessor ? |
| 2 | She was finding that it was easier to speak to his back than be forced to confront his frightening expression . |
| 3 | She was followed five minutes later by an angry Carole , suitcase in hand , who was to find that she was unable to quit the hotel until midnight . |
| 4 | ‘ No doubt , ’ murmured Dr Neil , who was finding that this interchange , far from dowsing lust , was fuelling it , so that he had a terrible desire to fall on his knees before his skivvy , crying , ‘ Be mine , McAllister , be mine , immediately , ’ like a hero , or perhaps a villain , in a stage melodrama . |
| 5 | And when at last she emerged , beaten and dull , it was to find that her sister was waiting . |
| 6 | When I regained consciousness it was to find that I 'd injured my spine and the doctor had ordered that I was to stay put , otherwise there was the possibility that I 'd end up a cripple . |
| 7 | In fact , so immersed in one another had they been that when they had looked up it was to find that all the other diners had left the restaurant . |
| 8 | When she surfaced it was to find that they were back at Piazzale Roma , the big square thronging as usual . |
| 9 | In their quest to reduce costs , however , the Railfreight managers were keen to explore every way of streamlining their operations , and in the case of Severn Tunnel Junction it was found that total closure would bring substantial savings for relatively little inconvenience . |
| 10 | Many years ago it was found that a variety of solvents extracted a acids and refinements have continued to perfect the process . |
| 11 | It was found that scant attention had been paid to raising the cultural level of party members . |
| 12 | Their cultural as well as their economic life could be broadened : in the winter of 1922–3 it was found that more peasant children from families owning draught animals attended school regularly than those without any . |
| 13 | Owing to the delays that had occurred since the marketing studies were made in 1983 and because of the attractiveness of the finished scheme , it was found that considerably higher prices could be obtained for the flats than had been originally foreseen . |
| 14 | In the early 1980s Astra suspended clinical trials of omeprazole when it was found that high doses of the drug caused cancer of the stomach lining in rats . |
| 15 | It was found that gold leaf was generally used by the Romans to plate high-lead bronzes , although at later periods the choice of gilding method was not governed by the metal composition . |
| 16 | This view would seem to be supported by the Sunday census of March 1851 , when it was found that in London only 37% of the inhabitants attended any form of divine service , whilst in eight other cities with populations in excess of 100,000 the figure was only 42% . |
| 17 | In a paper published this month in Nature by Dr Shigekazu Nagata from the Osaka Bioscience Institute in Japan , it was found that a strain of mice long known to suffer from auto-immune disease lacks a working version of a gene called Fas . |
| 18 | Despite this it was found that in all three areas of Wales the amount of land owned was almost the same . |
| 19 | When referral sources were examined in the light of this , it was found that medical and family referrers were each making different kinds of demand in the three areas . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Because of the side-effects associated with carbenoxolone , interest was revived in liquorice extracts particularly when it was found that despite the removal of glycyrrhizic acid , liquorice retained antiulcer activity . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | A year afterwards , an express came , Mrs. Welch reminded her of her dream , and upon opening the Will it was found that the cabinet was left to Mrs. Blencowe and Mrs. Jennens was directed by her dream to the secret drawers , where she found diamonds and other valuables , which were afterwards given to her daughter Mrs. Peareth |
| 25 | In the survey of secondary schools by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate it was found that schools resorted to short- or longer-term exclusion of pupils ‘ only when absolutely necessary and then with reluctance ’ . |
| 26 | When it was possible to investigate , it was found that over a third of the reactor core had melted , leaving one of the biggest radioactive waste disposal headaches ever known . |
| 27 | When the priest was searched it was found that he was carrying his will , and that he had left money for the restoration fund . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Significantly , it was found that overall the infant mortality rate was slipping behind those of Jordan and Syria as well as Israel . |
| 30 | It was found that when the test environment was the same as that used for pre-exposure , the rats learned only with difficulty to approach the source of the familiar odour — that is , latent inhibition occurred . |