Example sentences of "it [verb] been find " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , however , it has been found that bright light at other times of the day — in the evening , which also mimics the light in summer-time , and at noon , which does not lengthen daylight hours — has an effect also . |
| 2 | Before presenting the Service 's estimates to Parliament , the department should , in theory , prune its programmes down to the financial target line imposed by the Treasury ; but , in practice , it has been found that the bow-wave tends to dissipate as the actual financial year goes by because there are always delays in most programmes that lead to underspending on individual projects . |
| 3 | For example , it has been found that there are two specific regions of the left hemisphere which are necessary for the proper use of language . |
| 4 | It has been found more convenient to leave jurisdiction in cases concerning offences against the vert and venison to the ordinary petty sessions . |
| 5 | The adult rat provides another example : it has been found that cells in its prostate gland need the hormone testosterone . |
| 6 | It has been found that injected microorganisms are able to migrate in the subsurface , but these display relatively high levels of attenuation . |
| 7 | With certain flavours , however , it has been found that habituation can generalize perfectly well when latent inhibition fails to do so . |
| 8 | It has been found , however , that most people only use about half their breathing potential which means the brain is only receiving about half its quota of oxygen . |
| 9 | Recently it has been found that those old people who either have pets of their own or who have access to animals are often actually healthier — and are certainly happier — than those who have no such contact . |
| 10 | Furthermore , it has been found that the association between delinquency on the one hand and height , weight and physique on the other is greatly reduced once social , background factors are taken into account . |
| 11 | In studies of small mammal decay , it has been found that in hot climates the soft parts decay and the carcase is reduced to bone and sinew within 6–8 days ( Korth , 1979 ) . |
| 12 | Under permanently wet conditions , small mammal bone becomes soft and easily broken , and it has been found that small mammal bones preserved in wet caves become extensively broken , whereas in dry caves they are better preserved , but other factors may also modify such an assemblage . |
| 13 | Percentage loss of prey from tawny owl pellets was found to be greater in summer than in winter ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and this could relate both to the greater numbers of immature rodents taken as prey , the bones of which are less mineralized and therefore easier to digest ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and to the likelihood of the birds producing the pellets being themselves immature In the case of the great horned owl it has been found that the stomach pH in immature birds is lower than that of adults ( Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) and there is therefore greater destruction of bone and loss of prey . |
| 14 | Digestion can therefore be expected to be greater in mammalian predators , and so it has been found here . |
| 15 | Partly as a result of this , it has been found that digestion in falcons causes greater modification of bones than has been found in owl prey assemblages ( Yalden & Yalden , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | It has been found , however , that the corrosive effects of digestion on bones and teeth in the predator 's stomach are not duplicated by any other alteration process and so may be used to identify bone assemblages derived from predators . |
| 17 | It has been found convenient to divide space-time into the four regions as illustrated in Figure 3.1 . |
| 18 | It has been found that this form of conditioning can occur much more rapidly if the response prevents unpleasant stimuli occurring or stops them once they have started . |
| 19 | It has been found in the air sinuses of many species of whale at strandings around the world . |
| 20 | In Cornwall it has been found to be unnecessary . |
| 21 | Not over-wrapping babies ( mothers in the UK , it has been found , tend to over-wrap their babies ) . |
| 22 | It has been found that boards with a sprayed-on coating of etch-resist lacquer may require up to 15 or 20 minutes . |
| 23 | — it has been found that the food has little effect in satisfying hunger . |
| 24 | Again , it has been found to be uncommon among those living on traditional unprocessed foods . |
| 25 | In the United States , it has been found that a diet very rich in unrefined high-fibre starch has caused remission of the disease in 85 per cent of the adult-onset diabetic patients on which it has been tested . |
| 26 | In recent years it has been found that a high proportion of patients suffering from piles require no further treatment once they have switched to a high-fibre diet and as a result pass soft stools that can be evacuated with minimal straining . |
| 27 | It has been found that ninety-eight per cent of young adults ( with normal hearing ) in a sound-proof room can ‘ hear something ’ , mostly the sound of steam or a ringing noise . |
| 28 | A recent application in our own hands has been in the treatment of multiple sclerosis where it has been found to be of value in restoring at least some nerve function in about 60–70 per cent of patients treated . |
| 29 | The Earth 's own magnetic field has a pulse frequency of 10 Hz ( 10 pulses/second ) and it has been found that if patients are placed in magnetic fields of around 10 Hz , or are given electro-acupuncture at 10 Hz , healing can be speeded up . |
| 30 | Unfortunately for such critics it has been found that acupuncture works equally well , if not more effectively , on animals . |