Example sentences of "found that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was undoubtedly a big market , as many car firms found that without small robots they could not complete the automation of their paint spraying lines . |
| 2 | We found that for the same journey in the same conditions , our average mpg shot up to 52 . |
| 3 | Nutritionist Jenny MacDiarmid and chartered psychologist Dr Marion Hetherington , who carried out the study , found that for three out of four the taste , smell and texture of chocolate was irresistible . |
| 4 | Margaret Spear , in a different study from the one reported in this volume , found that for identical work boys were marked higher than girls for supposed understanding of principles , aptitude for science and O level suitability ( Spear , 1984 ) . |
| 5 | The 1977 Royal Commission on the Press found that for a quality newspaper , production costs accounted for 31% of total costs ; the next largest group of costs were attributed to newsprint and ink . |
| 6 | He told The Art Newspaper , ‘ Every two years we have a renewed clothes allowance , and we found that for a very little extra we could provide our warders with these outfits . |
| 7 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |
| 8 | Bailey and Harrison found that for certain types of passage cloze scores were potentially unreliable indicators of comprehension . |
| 9 | The Association found that for the first time the municipal government was taking its demands seriously and was prepared to make concessions which would effectively improve working conditions . |
| 10 | Harrison and colleagues found that for vessels with a residual lumen of less than 0.4 square mm in cross-sectional area , there was a high incidence of re-thrombosis . " |
| 11 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 12 | A mid-1980s ' survey of 650 firms in 130 US industries found that for new processes , lead time and learning curve advantages were rated as being the most important methods of protecting new innovations , while secrecy and marketing-related advantages were generally regarded as being more important than patents . |
| 13 | Using data for concurrent five-minute periods , he found that for 14 , 15 , 16 and the morning of 19 October , there was a highly significant positive relationship between the volume of index arbitrage and the size of the mispricing . |
| 14 | One study of how teenagers learn about sex and contraception found that for both girls and boys , friends were the most frequent first source of information . |
| 15 | Finch , in a study of preschool playgroups , found that for working class women self help was illusory , because taking turns in looking after other people 's children did not fit in with their life styles or with their aspirations . |
| 16 | The 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that for widows the first recommendation of 1871 was generally observed , some Boards of Guardians going further and insisting that the widow maintain two children by herself before any relief was given , while others refused relief to healthy able-bodied widows no matter how many children they had . |
| 17 | I found that for tie problems such as ‘ 1+1 ’ , ‘ 2+2 ’ , response times were very quick and similar for the more and less able children . |
| 18 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 19 | A Consumers ' Association report found that of the 32 tour operator 's policies surveyed , all but four fell short of its recommended levels of cover . |
| 20 | A recent Institute of Directors ' survey of 200 successful female executives found that of the 87 per cent who claimed to have encountered career obstacles not experienced by male colleagues , difficulty with childcare , at 37 per cent , was the biggest factor . |
| 21 | Emile Zola declared that ‘ our artists must find the poetry of stations as their fathers found that of forests and rivers ’ and the station has been securely enshrined in every aspect of art and culture . |
| 22 | A National Opinion Poll survey found that of those who expressed a desire to give up smoking , over a third were very keen to stop [ 3 ] . |
| 23 | In a study of his four published Song Books , I found that of the forty-two tunes I could identify ( four I could not ) , some 60 per cent are ‘ traditional ’ , mostly of rural origin ( the bulk Scottish ) , while only about 12 per cent come from comic music hall songs and about 25 per cent from bourgeois sources ( parlour ballad , light opera ) . |
| 24 | They found that of those males who reported acute sickness or chronic sickness without any limiting effect on activity , a larger proportion of the lower than the higher socio-economic groups consulted their doctors ; there was no consistent trend in the case of the females . |
| 25 | Devlin and O'Cathain found that of 122 children consecutively referred , 22 became dry after a structured interview ( with the child alone as well as with a parent ) , advice on personal hygiene and cleanliness training , daily bladder exercises , and provision of a ‘ star chart . ’ |
| 26 | Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) . |
| 27 | Wright and West , in a study of all incidents recorded by the police as genuine rapes or attempted rapes in six English counties over a five-year period from 1972 to 1976 , found that of a total of 297 cases , fellatio was attempted or demanded in 30 incidents , cunnilingus in 13 , buggery in 12 and other sexual acts usually involving masturbation in 35 . |
| 28 | A study in 1971 found that of 132 political states only 12 were true nation-states in which everyone had the same native tongue . |
| 29 | The inhabitants of Mauléon remained pro-English rather longer than most , for the good reason that they found that to be governed from England was the nearest one could then come to being autonomous . |
| 30 | ‘ A first episode of bleeding several weeks ago led to a thyroid function test , and we found that to be a little low , so that 's now being treated medicinally . |