Example sentences of "[det] study found [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This study found that intermittent buzzing reminded the child to go to the lavatory and so avoided wetting in 68 per cent , but in the group when the buzzer was related to actual wetting there was a bigger improvement rate of 80 per cent . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , it seems that the traditional view of a toad 's faithfulness to its birth pond is justified : this study found that between 79 and 96 per cent of toads returned to their original ponds , and , not surprisingly , that the greater the distance between ponds , the less likely toads are to move between them . |
| 3 | This study found that 73% of lone mothers depended on income support at the time of the survey , and of these only 28% had had regular full time employment before becoming a lone parent . |
| 4 | Another study found that poorly differentiated solid carcinomas showed only weak staining and in our small sample a poorly differentiated tumour would significantly decrease the apparent sensitivity . |
| 5 | The same study found that people who read a daily paper were more likely to watch the news on TV than people who did not . |