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Example sentences of "[conj] found that " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The government adopted a decree on April 5 for the provision of homes and jobs to returning Turks , many of whom had sold their houses or found that the local authorities had bulldozed them in their absence .
2	Even more provocative is a poll that found that the vast majority of American women today do n't even identify themselves as feminists .
3	Such an insider 's account will therefore hopefully achieve the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ MacDonald ( 1987 ) demanded of postmodern ‘ anthropology at home ’ , while ‘ practical mastery ’ of the ethnographic field should reduce the problems faced by McCabe and Sutcliffe ( 1978 ) , who set out to pursue participant observation on the police and found that ‘ it would be necessary for anyone wishing to fully understand the process of policing to take into account the difficulties in gaining access and an understanding of just what was going on ’ .
4	When at last a waiter said ‘ Your table is ready , ’ Sara looked at her watch again and found that it was nine-fifteen .
5	She began to ask Simon her usual questions and found that he drove a Merc , preferred cacti to ferns and voted Labour but only because there was no alternative .
6	We also tested a sample of autistic children in the chocolate-finding task and found that they were again behaving just like the three-year-olds : going to the baited box for twenty trials , despite wanting to win chocolates and occasionally trying to filch them from the experimenter 's bag .
7	Then I remembered the location of a luxurious caravan a relative has near Perpignan , so I looked up the guide , and found that there are a number of crags nearby — even better .
8	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 .
9	The boy saw through the fanaticism and found that his sense of chivalry was excited .
10	and found that he had hardened his views and was most obstructive and unhelpful .
11	He stopped the team and found that Brusie , now Tony 's lead dog , had a serious stomach wound , one of her teats having been almost torn off .
12	His interest began when he first opened the garden and found that many visitors wanted seeds from his 10 aquilegias .
13	One day Mr Hurd woke up to find that he was the Foreign Secretary , pinched himself , and found that his first big job was forcibly deporting the boat people in Hong Kong back to Vietnam .
14	But Baldwin weathered these political storms with some adroitness and found that the economic policies he favoured emerged , almost naturally , out of the collapse of the second Labour government in August 1931 .
15	‘ We have tested the system with a 10-litre Dicurane container and found that this leaves it 99.99% clean .
16	The enormity of such a task has been made obvious by an American psychologist in the 1930s , who worked his way through an unabridged dictionary , and found that there were about eighteen thousand words that could be used to describe people .
17	My father was not pleased when he came back early or unexpectedly from the hospital and found that we were out drinking or talking to girls .
18	Influenced by Cézanne , early Cubists such as Picasso and Braque recognised a continuity of space and found that initially this required a rejection of the continuity of line associated with Art Nouveau .
19	The scientists analysed their crystal structure by measuring how the coccoliths scatter light rays and electrons and found that they all shared common features of crystal organisation throughout their history .
20	‘ Meanwhile , I went aboard and found that both engines had failed owing to leaking radiators .
21	She looked , and found that the shoulder-holder was Jeane Russell from Amelia 's party .
22	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 .
23	I questioned the bishop about this and found that the monument needed immediate attention but was not of a high priority and no funds were available .
24	An effect of this sort was reported some years ago by Grastyan ( 1961 ) , who monitored an electrophysiological correlate ( hippocampal slow waves ) of the overt OR during conditioning and found that the electrical response diminished as the CR emerged .
25	Before Christmas I visited W H Smith and found that Spare Rib Magazine had been put in ‘ General Interest ’ , which includes all the soft pornography magazines .
26	On 27 April , an investigating party climbed up from St Pierre to find out what was happening , and found that the Etang Sec now contained a small lake , in the middle of which a small volcanic cone had begun to grow .
27	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 .
28	We lost touch for a couple of years and then we met at the Coventry Specimen Group Stag Night and found that each of us had conceded to an extent and were now using almost identical rods .
29	They measured night-time noise , from 22.30 to 06.36 , in the area next to the nurses ' station in three different types of wards and found that night-time noise over 8 hours in the psychiatric ward was 49 dB(A) ; in the general medical ward was 68 dB(A) ; and in the acute admitting general ward was 66 dB(A) — the general wards being well above the Bentley et al ‘ annoying ’ level .
30	On the day after the debate , Saturday , 19th February , ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ wrote to The Times from what he called ‘ Broad Phylactery ’ , to ridicule the classical attitudes of the Opposition , and said that he had lived in a Broad Sanctuary house for three years and found that it possessed ‘ all the comforts and conveniences of any house in London ’ .