Example sentences of "find [conj] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survey found that burglary was the most common crime , affecting 45pc , followed by vandalism ( 31pc ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | One butterfly I had longed to find since childhood was the purple emperor — very scarce and frequenting the highest branches of oak trees . |