Example sentences of "and find [conj] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masters and Johnson ( 1966 ) investigated the causes of impotence in older men , and found that it is caused as much by anxiety about possible physiological change as by the ageing process itself . |
| 2 | When at last a waiter said ‘ Your table is ready , ’ Sara looked at her watch again and found that it was nine-fifteen . |
| 3 | In the opening decades of the 19th century Glasgow woke up and found that it was no longer an ancient market place reached by tree-lined avenues . |
| 4 | Euan MacKie excavated the platform and found that it was artificial . |
| 5 | He himself had received letters from all over England , seeking his advice on questions of conscience , and found that it was unsatisfactory for Anglicans to have to rely on Roman Catholic literature for guidance in such matters . |
| 6 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 7 | … we attended at the School on Monday the 17th [ July , 1833 ] and found that it was divided into six classes , the first being composed of three boys only whose study was the Classics , the second of about 20 who were instructed in the Latin Grammar , and the remaining four classes were composed of boys whose education was confined to Reading , Writing , Arithmetic , and English Grammar , in which instruction the boys in the two senior classes also participated . " |
| 8 | ‘ We should n't either of us have anything to regret , David , ’ she said at last , and found that it was true . |
| 9 | Joshi and Owen ( 1981 , pp. 106–7 ) studied the labour force participation of successive cohorts of women in Britain from 1950 to 1974 and found that it was motherhood , rather than marriage , which determined the length of women 's lives in paid work with Ms Average withdrawing from the labour market for seven years . |
| 10 | He tore it open and found that it was n't empty , just that the fine powder inside took up so little space . |
| 11 | She crossed to the door and found that it was unlocked . |
| 12 | Cassie picked it up and found that it was silk , with a bodice of handmade lace ; beautiful and expensive . |
| 13 | They had carried the body to the nearest house , and found that it was a good-looking young man about twenty-five years old . |
| 14 | Music 24 songs and nothin' to hear Geoff Dyer goes down to the Springsteen river , and finds that it 's dry |
| 15 | The fish snaps at these enticingly offered morsels and finds that it is comparatively easy to bite one off . |
| 16 | Jonathan looked upon all that he had made and found that it was very good . |
| 17 | What should you do if you do n't live in London , and find that it is financially difficult to pay for such courses ? |
| 18 | If you look at Algol and find that it is no brighter than Epsilon or Zeta , you may be sure that an eclipse is in progress . |
| 19 | Darwin had himself studied some of these plants , verifying that they do actually consume the flies which land in their pitchers or on their leaves and get caught there , and finding that it was apparently to nitrogenous compounds that the plants responded . |
| 20 | But to this day I have nightmares in which I have to go back to school , and I 'm so relieved to wake up and find that it was only a dream . |
| 21 | She could wake up and find that it was still the night of their parents ' wedding , that only that afternoon she and Stephen had been on the train . |