Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] find that " in BNC.

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1 American reviewers also found evidence of fraud and misrepresentation in peer review assessments ( Crawford & Stucki ) , in similar conditions to those already commented on in the UFC Report , and , in keeping with their greater use of information technology , Crawford & Stucki found that online communications and fax machines were contributory factors .
2 In their 1968 study of the frequency of use of British scientific journals , as measured by requests to the British Library , Martyn & Gilchrist found that Nature was the highest ranked journal , and the highest ranked earth science journal was Journal of Petrology ( ranking one hundred and fifteenth ) .
3 Moed & Vriens found that more than 9% of the 4500 papers in their study had at least one discrepancy in their citations .
4 In a similar study , Lawani & Bayer found that 14% of the highly rated papers in their study of cancer research were not highly rated by peers , and that only 2.3% of their highly rated papers were never cited .
5 It was shortly after his time at Oxford , on his first journey to the Continent , that Hobbes found that others were dissatisfied with scholasticism ; and we have already noted that an interest in method was characteristic of the seventeenth century .
6 It is interesting that Trudgill finds that new dialect acquisition is more likely to follow the " fixed route " in older learners .
7 It is interesting to observe that Kuo found that the slide presentation of visual material was more effective than television presentation of the same material .
8 So it was not surprising that George found that nobody would accept the dangerously exposed position of Prime Minister and that Pitt was indispensable even though he had no majority in the Commons .
9 Hulse and Taylor found that the period changed by as much as 80 µs with a 7.75 h cycle , which is uncharacteristic behaviour for a pulsar .
10 Weaver and Steiner found that 85% of 1 to 4 year old children passed stools once or twice a day , and 96% did so three times daily to once every other day .
11 In an in vitro study of an isolated segment of guinea pig ileum , Bülbring and Lin found that 5HT stimulated propulsive motility when applied intraluminally .
12 In Magdeburg he and Matthies found that 2-Dgal injections produced amnesia in rats .
13 Lasser and Levitt found that patients complaining of ‘ gas ’ or ‘ bloating ’ had no excess intestinal gas .
14 Gilbert and Ward found that renters made up 36.4 per cent of their sample of inhabitants of spontaneous housing settlements in Bogota , 12.7 per cent of those in Mexico City and 4.5 per cent in Valencia ( Gilbert and Ward 1985 ) .
15 The Kaszubes in Danzig and Germany found that they could not export their produce to Poland economically simply because Polish produce was cheaper , and in the Corridor they could not export their produce to Germany effectively because , as far as the Germans were concerned , the Kaszubes were Polish .
16 As to abuse of the scheme by solicitors , the research study by Baldwin and Hill found that officials in area legal aid offices ‘ tended to view members of the legal profession with considerable suspicion , ’ but more on the basis that solicitors might make full or excessive use of the scheme than that there was malpractice or dishonesty .
17 In their study of Women and Employment : a lifetime perspective , Martin and Roberts found that , in 1980 , 65 per cent of married women and 56 per cent of women with dependent children under the age of 16 were , in Great Britain , ‘ economically active ’ ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 ) .
18 It was in one of New York City 's ‘ crowded sections ’ that Thrasher and Cressey found that ‘ the photoplay of Little Caesar seemed to have swept certain groups of boys — like a cyclone , leaving a host of consequences ’ and came across boys who swaggered , threw mock-punches , dressed , and ‘ smiled like Cagney ’ and who went around repeating phrases like ‘ You can dish it out but you ca n't take it . ’
19 In a study of strikes during 1970–2 lasting for more than two weeks , Gennard and Lasko found that the number of people involved in a strike , the duration of the strike and whether it was official or unofficial affected the payment of supplementary benefit .
20 Astronomers can calculate when such maxima of solar insolation took place , and Fairbanks found that his two phases of accelerated run-off do not correlate with the maxima .
21 Barnes and Tapper find that a small change in the diversity of crops in an area drastically reduces the number of resident hares .
22 A study of the fans of Oxford United and Millwall found that actual physical violence played only a small part in life on the terraces ( Marsh , Rosser and Harre , 1978 ) .
23 For six-pointed shapes of the type shown in Fig 5.5 , Ellis and Muller found that subjects who had learned labels for the various shapes out-performed controls ( who had simply observed the stimuli in the first phase of training ) on a motor task that required pressing one switch rather than some other in response to these stimuli .
24 ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air .
25 But Ramsey and Barth found that they shared a common sense of humour .
26 In their study of the civic culture , Almond and Verba found that there were differences in attitude toward government between those with different levels of education , and between those who had received some formal education and those who had received none .
27 Almond and Verba found that having been taught about government increases a sense of subjective political competence .
28 Almond and Verba found that evaluation of the political system in Britain was the product of a mix of participant and deferential orientations .
29 In their study , Almond and Verba found that the Americans and the British " tend to be consistently most positive about the safety and responsiveness of the human environment . "
30 Jackson and Robinson found that the hoped for reduction in social divisiveness and the wider range of educational opportunity following the introduction of comprehensive education did not materialise because of sub-group norms and emotional upset at being away from home .
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