Example sentences of "find [conj] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was disappointed to find that accommodation was scarcer and more expensive than I thought it would be and the best that I could afford was a large first-floor room in a bedsitter house on Ladbroke Grove . |
| 2 | Only when he settled as a newly-married man , first at Clevedon , and later at Nether Stowey , was he able to test the healing powers of mere natural beauty , and to find that beauty was not enough . |
| 3 | He took to cleansing , toning and moisturizing his face once he found that soap was bad for it . |
| 4 | The survey found that burglary was the most common crime , affecting 45pc , followed by vandalism ( 31pc ) . |
| 5 | Like too many others , he found that help was not forthcoming . |
| 6 | John ( 1932 ) found that hypertension was only more prevalent in diabetics who were over 40 years of age , while another study failed to confirm an excess prevalence ( Sherrill , 1933 ) . |
| 7 | A recent prospective study of high grade gastric lymphoma found that survival was similar in patients who underwent complete , incomplete , or no surgical therapy before chemotherapy and that the prognostic factors predicting survival were similar to those in patients with nodal lymphoma treated with the same chemotherapy regimen . |
| 8 | Harris found that adaptation was , in fact , due to a change in the proprioceptive sense of the arm . |
| 9 | She looked at all sorts of alternative medicine and found that homeopathy was very effective for Angela 's condition of breathlessness and collapse . |
| 10 | Tobin and Lieberman ( 1976 ) found that passivity was an indicator that a person was likely to respond badly to being in an institution . |
| 11 | In more detail , a study of 153 farms in the area found that redundancy was the most important single reason for leaving farm employment between 1960 and 1970 , as shown in Table 5.7 . |
| 12 | Thomson found that photography was an agreeable way of making a living , but he knew that he , and the camera , were capable of greater things . |
| 13 | Sergeant Davidson and his colleagues made a thorough search of Ballytreabhair Farm , but all they found that night was the sleeping form of Old Den snoring contentedly in his own bed . |
| 14 | They soon found that polo was not their only common interest . |
| 15 | The pathologist found that death was due to natural causes and that the cause of death was status asthmaticus . |
| 16 | In their 1968 study of the frequency of use of British scientific journals , as measured by requests to the British Library , Martyn & Gilchrist found that Nature was the highest ranked journal , and the highest ranked earth science journal was Journal of Petrology ( ranking one hundred and fifteenth ) . |
| 17 | Acting on a hunch , she brought in a low-frequency recorder and found that infrasound was emanating from its forehead . |
| 18 | A household survey in Kenya in 1974 found that tax was paid on 77 per cent of the income of the poorest rural group . |
| 19 | Very often they moved on again after a short stay , for they found that reality was harsher than their dreams . |
| 20 | F. H. A. Marshall 's Physiology of Reproduction ( 1910 ) , in examining current views , found that menstruation was often seen as a disease symptom so that ‘ the phenomenon of menstruation must be looked upon as belonging to the borderland of pathology ’ . |
| 21 | Ostensibly her idea was a good one , but she found that praise was , for that child , not a reward at all ; in fact it led to his communicating with her less often . |
| 22 | One butterfly I had longed to find since childhood was the purple emperor — very scarce and frequenting the highest branches of oak trees . |
| 23 | The later insect groups seem to have found that flight was more efficiently achieved with just one pair of flapping membranes . |
| 24 | Who find that dinner was a stratagem : |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the jury 's finding that Poindexter was part of a conspiracy involving members of the Reagan administration amounted to the clearest judicial verdict yet rendered upon the Iran-contra scandal . |