Example sentences of "he found that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to his work with tiny seedlings , he found that the electrical field around a sprout was not the shape of the original seed but resembled the adult plant , indicating that any developing organism is destined to follow a prescribed pattern of growth generated by the individual EM field of the organism . |
| 2 | He subjected quantities of quartz crystal to pressures similar to those occurring in active fault zones in the Earth 's crust , and he found that the piezo-electric effect did induce visible ionisation of the surrounding air , just as Persinger predicted . |
| 3 | He found that the only period to be consistent with rational expectations was from 1962 to 1969 . |
| 4 | He found that the annual output of U.S. geoscience literature increased by a factor of 10.3 in 70 years , and that the overall growth was exponential , but that the relative output of journals changes with time . |
| 5 | To his horror he found that the young boy had hanged himself in a moment of despair . |
| 6 | He found that the controlling factors were the magnifications and numerical apertures of eyepieces and objectives , transmission of individual optical elements , and other details of the optical path , including prisms , splitters and polarizers . |
| 7 | He found that the greatest number of large-scale strikes broke out when the presidents were known for their populist and pro-worker policies . |
| 8 | As a result , the Whig MP John Hervey had to work extremely hard to cultivate the corporation , and although he did use various financial incentives , he found that the best way to keep their support was by serving their interests both locally and in Parliament . |
| 9 | At dawn , he found that the transparent covering had split and thirty white insects had emerged on deck , each the size of a rabbit . |
| 10 | To his alarm he found that the brief flight had utterly exhausted him . |
| 11 | The arrangement of the exhibits was crucial : when W. C. Williamson went to Manchester to take charge of the museum there in 1836 , he found that the stuffed animals were merely arranged in ornamental groups ; he soon reorganized them systematically . |
| 12 | ‘ Look how he controlled his disappointment when he found that the dead man was not Sir Henry . ’ |
| 13 | Instead , he found that the whole matter ‘ snowballed ’ . |
| 14 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |
| 15 | By studying a series of successively younger embryos he found that the same cells at the tip of the limbs always contacted the central nervous system first , and that subsequent connections were always made along pathways established by the axon processes extended by these pioneer cells . |