Example sentences of "[noun sg] found that [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A survey of 140 heads , deputies and careers teachers by a marketing consultancy found that 54 per cent thought that businesses went about recruiting school-leavers ‘ not very well ’ or ‘ very badly ’ . |
| 2 | Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) . |
| 3 | The recent study found that 10 per cent of the two year old females were breeding . |
| 4 | Merrill Lynch 's 1985 relocation study found that 44 per cent of the ‘ 303 Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed provided bridging finance directly . |
| 5 | The study found that 56 per cent of the jobs taken by the young people in fact had no formal educational requirements attached to them . |
| 6 | The study found that 72 per cent of employers in the top size band saw qualifications as useful as against only 30 per cent in the smallest , where 49 per cent saw them as not useful compared with only 12 per cent in the largest ( see ibid. , Tables 46 , 48 and 50 ) . |
| 7 | The study found that 17 per cent of organisations surveyed had no idea of the costs of relocation . |
| 8 | The study found that 89 per cent of all companies interviewed provide assistance for an employee buying a home in the new location . |
| 9 | An in-house survey at one establishment found that 48 per cent of business guests went to the hotel because they wanted to use its leisure facilities . |
| 10 | A sample of the fishermen operating the 816 boats in the area found that 93 per cent used the type of gill-net which entangles vaquitas . |
| 11 | In the South Korean capital , Seoul , TRAFFIC found that 85 per cent of clinics were now selling rhino horn , compared to 51 per cent in 1987 . |
| 12 | In Pura , a village in Kamataka , Professor Amulva Reddy and his colleagues from the Indian Institute of Science found that 96 per cent of the wood that poor families burned was in the form of twigs . |
| 13 | The report found that 95 per cent of respondents were aware that cars contributed to environmental pollution . |
| 14 | The Norwegian SNSF project found that 80 per cent of the pollutant content of the winter snowpack is released in the first 30 per cent of the meltwater ( Overrein et al. , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | An earlier GHS survey found that 10 per cent of the care provided for children in one parent families was provided by another member of their households and a further 10 per cent by a relative outside the household . |
| 16 | The bureau 's survey found that 71 per cent of school fires are believed to be deliberate . |
| 17 | A Scottish Homes report on the preliminary findings says the survey found that 20.8 per cent of Scotland 's houses , or 423,000 , showed evidence of damp , serious condensation or mould either singly or in any combination . |
| 18 | The survey found that 16 per cent had made plans about caring for relatives , and many said they were prepared to help with less demanding tasks such as transport and shopping . |
| 19 | The survey found that 39 per cent of British women are faithful to one partner over a lifetime , while one in 17 men and women under 59 have never had sex . |
| 20 | Their survey found that forty per cent of students have tried drugs … but have little idea of the risks . |
| 21 | A survey of nearly a thousand girls starting primary school found that 2 per cent of them had bacteriuria and of these children two-thirds had day and night wetting ( Savage et al . |