Example sentences of "[adj] found that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Gallup Poll in 1980 found that 85% of respondents considered other Britons to be very or fairly trustworthy . |
| 2 | This found that girls who had felt isolated and embarrassed about being pregnant or having babies felt less stigma about this after they had attended the units and could take a much more realistic view of their situation . |
| 3 | This found that 7% of Irish voters wanted abortion to be legal under all circumstances and another 57% wanted it to be legal under certain circumstances . |
| 4 | Already evidence exists of underprovision of respite care : one recent study reported that a quarter of carers had not had a holiday for more than five years , and another found that 40% of carers could not take a break when they wanted . |
| 5 | The OFT client survey in 1985 found that organisations commissioning consulting architects were , in general , paying 10–15 per cent below the RIBA recommended scale , indicating that there may have been some small reduction in the fee income of architects after 1982 . |
| 6 | Tests conducted at Lyme Regis and Paignton in August 1991 found that bathers were twice as likely to suffer pollution-related ailments including vomiting , diarrhoea , nausea and fever , than people who stayed on the beach . |
| 7 | A UN report on the Iran-Iraq war published on Dec. 10 found that Iraq 's invasion of Iran on Sept. 22 , 1980 , and its subsequent occupation of Iranian territory throughout the war had been unjustified and in breach of international law . |
| 8 | A hearing by Imro 's investigation committee on February 18 found that Midland Bank had failed to take reasonable care in monitoring of the managers ' pricing of the units . |
| 9 | The MMC found that restrictions in the selective and exclusive distribution agreements prevent efficient dealers from growing strong , promoting outside their territory , obtaining competing franchises and gaining bargaining power , thereby bargaining for better terms and obtaining more customers by passing some of these benefits on to final consumers . |
| 10 | The National Fertility Survey of 1978 found that 34% of all women of child-bearing age practised some form of contraception ( 56% in the metropolitan area , 42% in urban areas and 26% in rural areas ) . |
| 11 | In the UK a study in 1970 found that people were twice as likely to continue with coitus interruptus than with the diaphragm and in 1974 the International Planned Parenthood Federation declared that this time-honoured method ‘ probably remains the most widely used of all on a global scale ’ . |
| 12 | A Gallup Opinion Poll of 17 March 1965 found that Americans ranked Britain not only as their most reliable ally , but also as the most influential country in the world after the United States , the USSR and China . |
| 13 | A household survey in Kenya in 1974 found that tax was paid on 77 per cent of the income of the poorest rural group . |
| 14 | A survey conducted by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals in 1988 found that students outside London , after paying for board and lodgings , had £380 a year left for all other expenses , and students in London were even worse off with only £109 a year . |