Example sentences of "find that [det] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yvonne Harper-Wake , managing director of London 's The Gym at The Sanctuary , was amazed to find that many of the callers were overweight because they were eating all the wrong things . |
| 2 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 3 | Having heard all the horror stories about being nicked for speeding in the US , I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the traffic was travelling at about 70mph , so I set the cruise control at around that speed and tried not to look conspicuous . |
| 4 | She was great as Beattie — and it was heartening to find that most of the other winning ads had humorous themes . |
| 5 | Owen had been to the Coptic Cathedral before but not to a Coptic church ; so he was surprised to find that most of the congregation appeared to be on crutches . |
| 6 | The judge declined to find that any of the information contained in the blue book bore the stamp of confidentiality within the criteria laid down in Faccenda Chicken , ie it could not be described as a trade secret or anything approximating thereto . |
| 7 | The ADC found that all of the 83 district councils responding to the survey expressed concern with the way in which the Secretary of State was implementing the legislation . |
| 8 | Slooten and Dawson found that many of the animals brought in to them were young animals , perhaps inexperienced in the use of their sonar . |
| 9 | On a recent visit to Warsaw I found that many of the street names had been changed during the past year . |
| 10 | They found that many of the chemicals substantially reduced the amount of methylation that took place — either by altering the DNA so that the enzyme no longer recognised it , or by inhibiting the enzyme itself in its action . |
| 11 | He also found that many of the stone circles were associated with other features some distance away , such as a standing stone , hillside notch or rock outcrop and that the lines to these features had astronomical significance . |
| 12 | The committee of inquiry found that many of the teachers they met held the view that Afro-Caribbean pupils ‘ inevitably caused difficulties ’ and were unlikely to achieve in academic terms , although they had high expectations of their potential in sport and the expressive arts ( Rampton , 1981 , p. 13 ) . |
| 13 | We found that many of the school practices were interpreted in this way and an expression of the general basis of this contemptuous type of offence is found in the following comment . |
| 14 | Even so , worklife mobility is still of some importance ; the Oxford researchers ( Goldthorpe , 1980 ) found that many of the downwardly mobile men recovered their position of origin through this means . |
| 15 | This she was able to do , but the evaluators found that many of the books had never been opened and that most of them bore no issue dates , even though it was three years since their acquisition . |
| 16 | The children found that many of the old names had been kept but naturally a number of new ones , such as Frisky , Fay , Titania and Babs , had crept in . |
| 17 | Anne was angry and upset when she heard the news , and found that many of the women at work agreed with her . |
| 18 | An independent report found that many of the plants did not match up to European safety standards , burned high sulphur coal , and were badly sited . |
| 19 | Next day Mr Wolski found that several of the morning newspapers had pictures of the golden eagle on their front page . |
| 20 | A study by Tom Copeland , a finance academic turned consultant at McKinsey , of six LBOs among its clients found that half of the value created in the buy-outs came as a result of unexpected falls in interest rates . |
| 21 | A survey by the National Association of Head Teachers conducted in 1987 found that half of the schools questioned were using voluntary funds to supplement their spending on materials and equipment which in previous years had been provided entirely out of local authority funds . |
| 22 | The survey found that half of the UK 's knacker businesses have gone bankrupt since they began charging last July . |
| 23 | After buying Hugin Sweda , Riva found that some of the quoted assets did not exist , and had to plug the gap by restructuring , borrowing , and cost-cutting . |
| 24 | It also found that some of the avowedly " green " unit trusts were actually investing in many of the polluting companies . |
| 25 | Miles Kington found that most of the Burma Road ( Great Journeys , BBC-2 ) is even wetter . |
| 26 | The committee found that most of the complaints were justified and recommended improvements which resulted in the conditions of service and promotion prospects of the staff being brought into line with the rest of the Civil Service . |
| 27 | But that time has not yet come and Orlan found that most of the surgeons she approached did not want to get involved with her ideas . |
| 28 | Allowing for transactions costs , they found that most of the mispricings were underpricings . |
| 29 | Anne had to make many detours to reach the factory and felt triumphant when she arrived there , but she found that most of the women had come in . |
| 30 | Similarly , Wright found that most of the victims in his sample had received no injuries . |