Example sentences of "they discovered that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only later that they discovered that the mysterious column , which in the heat haze had looked like twenty-five Lancia trucks , had in fact been Timpson 's patrol . |
| 2 | They discovered that the first-order autocorrelation of the mispricing series was 0.93 , indicating that mispricings tended to persist over periods of the order of a few hours . |
| 3 | On investigation , they discovered that the first agency had failed to get proper authorisation from Visa for the transaction . |
| 4 | When they returned , they discovered that the main body of men had already flown out and that a party of drivers under Scratchley was waiting for them to join the vehicle convoy south through the Great Sand Sea . |
| 5 | They discovered that the sudden rise in the numbers of girls wanting to read Engineering coincided entirely with a visit to the school from the WISE bus . |
| 6 | When Society members inspected the guard 's compartment , they discovered that the original vacuum gauge was still in place and that , apart from a few alterations to the window arrangements , the coach is essentially as built . |