Example sentences of "[conj] find that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started asking questions — and found that at his own school — Ashchurch primary — the cuts could mean the loss of a teacher and an increase in the numbers of children per class . |
| 2 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 3 | The recent Royal Commission on Incomes and Wealth analysed the sources of finance for the larger quoted industrial and financial companies in the U K and found that between 1950–72 internally generated funds accounted for an average 70 per cent of total finance over this period . |
| 4 | He had experimented with various foods and found that by restricting his diet to one of fresh fruits and vegetables he could control his migraine . |
| 5 | They ignored temporary conversions from roughland to grass leys ( and vice versa ) and found that in the 30 years to 1980 in their 6 study areas , 15,000 hectares of rough pasture had reverted to roughland but 23,900 hectares of roughland had been converted to grass leys . |
| 6 | They surveyed 288 people for nine months and found that in seven out of 10 cases anxiety was making hair loss worse . |
| 7 | Fitzgerald calculated the critical number of samples needed to be 80 per cent certain that the mean score would be no more than one year out , and found that in one book it was 72 samples — which amounted to nearly half the book ! |
| 8 | Rebecca Scott , for instance , a young artist who explores the associative and feminine-identified eroticism of flowers in big , richly coloured , sensuous canvasses , came across Irigaray 's work by chance recently and found that in its characterisation of female interiority , groundedness , concealed sexuality and dispersed sense perceptions , it spoke directly to her and her work . |
| 9 | He then crossed together members of the first generation , and found that in the second generation tall and short peas occurred in the ratio 3 tall : 1 short . |
| 10 | Hewitt and Burton ( 1971 ) analysed the record for southwestern Ontario and found that in a 50-year period there would be 1 severe drought , 2 major windstorms , 5 severe snowstorms , 8 severe hurricanes , 10 severe glaze storms , 16 severe floods , 25 severe hailstorms and 39 tornadoes . |
| 11 | In a separate experiment they actually monitored the eye fixations of subjects while watching the slide and found that in the arousal condition subjects fixated more often on central details , though for less time per fixation . |
| 12 | Staerk Laursen et al estimated colonic concentrations by means of in vivo dialysis of faeces and found that in patients in steady state with inactive ulcerative colitis concentrations after olsalazine ( Dipentum ) and Asacol were almost double those seen with equimolar doses of Pentasa and salofalk ( Claversal ) . |
| 13 | On the other hand , if it was quite clear and unambiguous then a written form was preferred Okay , now a study by Daft et al , Daft as in y'know one marble short of a whatever yeah or okay er Daft et al nineteen eighty-seven had a look at managers ' use of er of these two different media and found that in general most managers were media sensitive . |
| 14 | On top of the hill was a wood of beech trees surrounded by a stone wall ; I climbed the wall and found that underneath the trees were hundreds of moss-covered gravestones of soldiers from Napoleon 's Imperial Army who had died of disease while waiting to invade England . |
| 15 | So we drop the bars too and find that with the conventions described above we have shown that every polynomial can be expressed in the form |
| 16 | I 've visited several large gardens recently and find that in many cases the plants in the herbaceous borders are supported by plastic-coated wire frames of varying sizes . |
| 17 | Many people find great strength in religion and find that in the most difficult moments , a good can come out of what has happened . |
| 18 | Can you imagine opening a daily newspaper , and finding that on every page , there was the same message from God ; or can you imagine watching breakfast TV — or listening to the Today programme — and finding that every feature was a message from God , with different emphases , but always the same message . |