Example sentences of "find that the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we might expect to find that the giving of grades has a crop of side effects peculiarly its own . |
| 2 | Any foreign manager arriving in Britain is amazed to find that the permutations of Ford Sierra , Vauxhall Cavalier and the like that he must offer his staff now define the pecking order in British society . |
| 3 | ASPIRING coaches in the Durham and Cleveland area have been stunned to find that the cost of the basic part one course has doubled in two years to £88.50 . |
| 4 | Lord Meston , on his behalf , submits that the judge erred in declining to find that the removal of the child by the mother from Ontario was ‘ wrongful . ’ |
| 5 | It was a relief to find that the narrowness of mind was common to both sides . |
| 6 | On returning to the trenches , Charlie was surprised to find that the thought of at last being involved in a real fight had put the men in better humour . |
| 7 | Cardiff was now somehow not surprised to find that the sound of the man 's voice was familiar — even though they had never met before . |
| 8 | So many returners admit to stage fright at the beginning of a re-entry programme , only to find that the expectations of managers and colleagues are much more realistic than they have given them credit for . |
| 9 | The analysis is usually based on the strict modernism which was the ideology of the professions involved , and is epitomized in comments such as ‘ we seem to find that the aesthetics of an industrial product will take care of themselves automatically after we have provided a balance between function , simplicity and utility ’ ( Bayley 1979 : 71 ) . |
| 10 | With such a wide range of adaptations it is not surprising to find that the shapes of bivalves are highly varied — some are globular , others flat and plate-like , some like razor shell ( Ensis ) have become greatly elongated to avoid burrowing , and some in forms of the usual ‘ mirror image ’ symmetry has been lost . |
| 11 | It is very common to find that the combination of the adverbal adjective and its preceding verb can be matched by a single verb , without any change at all in the overall syntactic pattern or in the meaning : 14 ( a ) you should make the string longer you should lengthen the string ( b ) his sister wanted to set the owl free his sister wanted to release the owl or his sister wanted to free the owl ( c ) Liz had knocked her fiancè unconscious Liz had stunned her fiancè ( The same remark can be made of what are plainly close relatives of this construction , namely separable verbs where the second part is an adverb , or " particle " , as with put up ( = accommodate ) , or pull off ( = achieve . ) |
| 12 | In such a mixed territory it is no surprise to find that the quality of watercourses is often strikingly disparate . |
| 13 | After seventy-three minutes of a disappointingly dull game , Lewis pounced on a shot by Cardiff 's Ferguson only to find that the sheen of his new Jersey caused the ball , with its polished leather , to slip from under him towards goal . |
| 14 | Employing an electroencephalogram to measure the brain waves of opossums when awake , when asleep and when playing dead , investigators were surprised to find that the condition of the brain when death-feigning is taking place is the same as that in the wide-awake animal . |
| 15 | There are innumerable instances of bands signing large deals to major record companies only to find that the aim of the record company is to try and push the band in a totally unsuitable direction . |
| 16 | The Commissioners were not surprised to find that the arrangement of the master and the matron of the workhouse not being man and wife had not succeeded , and they concluded that all four should be called on to resign , as ‘ none of these appear fit for their respective offices ’ . |
| 17 | People whose wealth consists mainly of real property , on the other hand , are likely to find that the value of their wealth rises at least as rapidly as the general price level . |
| 18 | TRACE II , like Hearsay-II had no guarantee that the correct weights had been chosen but found that the behaviour of the system was very robust under parameter variations . |
| 19 | An extreme instance is provided by Godden and Baddeley ( 1975 , 1980 ) , who found that the ability of divers to recall a list of words learned either under water or on the beach was much better when the test took place in the same conditions as had prevailed during original learning . |
| 20 | The Dunbars found that the structure of their study population in Ethiopia differed in 1974 — 5 from that of 1971 — 2 . |
| 21 | Sampson and Wooldredge ( 1987 ) , made elegant use of the data from the 1982 British Crime Survey and found that the probability of burglary victimisation and household theft victimisation increased with the rate of local unemployment . |
| 22 | The Commission found that the coverage of this period was generally calm , factual and restrained . |
| 23 | When subjects are woken from REM sleep and questioned about their dreams Edwin Kahn and his associates found that the incidence of reporting colours increased to 70 per cent . |
| 24 | In a subsequent longitudinal study which observed the development of 7 year old children , Stanovich , West and Feeman ( 1981 ) found that the effects of context diminished as reading experience increased . |
| 25 | Oakenshott ( 1979 ) found a preference for small towns among employers because of their more pleasant physical environments and easier access to the countryside , compared with the larger cities , while Spooner ( 1972 ) found that the attractiveness of the area was the most important factor influencing firms moving into the South West . |
| 26 | The judge found that the substance of the post-termination commission clause was that in the event of termination following a prescribed period of service , commission would be paid to the plaintiff in respect of premiums actually paid under the relevant policies issued during his appointment but that it was subject to the proviso that the agent 's entitlement to such commission would cease if he entered into competing activities . |
| 27 | Ganong ( 1980 ) found that the identification of a phoneme on a continuum between and varied according to whether it was the first phoneme of kiss or gift . |
| 28 | Throughout Indonesia we found that the fears of myth are still alive today . |
| 29 | All subjects participating in our study were caucasians ; we have studied other samples from general populations of caucasian origin and found that the frequency of the ACE/ID polymorphism was fairly similar to that in the ECTIM study . |
| 30 | He found that the frequency of dependent clauses in the written language of high-ability 13 year olds did not increase thereafter while it did for low-ability children . |