Example sentences of "[adv] find that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He eventually found that the ideal mix was 55 per cent Polled Lincoln Red , 35 per cent Polled Beef Shorthorn ( he had also succeeded in polling the latter ) and 10 per cent Aberdeen Angus , which improved the qualities he desired without reducing size and liveweight gains .
2 I use a punchcard roll and began by punching out the customary two rows of holes for the overlapping join , only to find that the first row stretched the plastic slightly , giving a wavy edge .
3 When was the last time you bought an item at one shop , only to find that the same item was much cheaper in another shop ?
4 I came in as a young teacher , enthusiastic , full of new ideas but you soon find that the old attitudes rub off on you , and so you end up thinking , ‘ Oh , why am I doing this ?
5 They read Drude 's plant geography and decided to do a similar study , but soon found that the European techniques did not work on the almost featureless prairie .
6 Sandys soon found that the easiest part of his Nuclear Reformation was writing and pinning up his ‘ Articles of Religion ’ in Westminster .
7 The researchers have already found that the simulated effect of global warming in Britain ( an increase in temperature of 30 C ) produces two and a half times more new plant growth .
8 While I fully accept that the poor have become a cause by which many politicians and intellectuals can further their personal ambitions , I do nevertheless find that the Hayekian case is deficient .
9 The prime minister did not achieve all his objectives , and he returned home to find that the new tide of anti-American criticism was still rising .
10 From southern latitudes , where Sagittarius can pass overhead , there is plenty to see ; I have always found that the best way to identify the various clusters and nebulæ is to take them ‘ one by one ’ , using the nearest naked-eye stars as guides .
11 Students usually find that the first term 's work is relatively gentle .
12 Whether it 's a long-term or short-term problem you will find gentle exercise and relaxation through yoga will be beneficial to you mentally and physically , and we always find that a good massage goes a long way to easing tension and making you feel better .
13 Foreigners always find that a difficult process — in fact only one of them made a real success of it — and Disraeli possessed what Ezra had been denied — the elasticity and toughness of a good Jew .
14 This is because in any sample of right handers it is usually found that a considerable proportion of subjects do not show the expected right ear superiority for verbal material .
15 I have tried most of them , apart from the downright ridiculous ones , mainly from curiosity , but still find that a simple clip-on bobbin , or a good butt indicator , is best .
16 They also found that the average value of was significantly different from y i which implies that the empirical version of the CAPM had a smaller slope than that predicted by the risk-free rate version of the CAPM .
17 The report also found that the overwhelming majority of lone parents are women , most of whom are divorced or separated ; single mothers are the smallest group of lone parents .
18 Nonetheless , they also found that the professional newcomers to the area were often upset by the environmental consequences of modern farming ( see Chapters 8 and 9 ) and since they lacked a rural power base they formed environmental pressure groups to protest against the farmers , thus creating a new form of social division in the rural community .
19 They also found that the ex-married women had been married for about eight years , on average , before becoming lone mothers .
20 They also found that the whole paper was poorly constructed .
21 North has also found that a similar escapement was known more than a century and a half later to Leonardo da Vinci .
22 Anderson ( 1981 ) also found that a higher proportion of redundant women were not entitled to any payments compared with men .
23 It was also found that the weak force did not obey the symmetry C. That is , it would cause a universe composed of antiparticles to behave differently from our universe .
24 Finally , it was also found that the average self-reported first age of use of heroin by 236 clients of the Detoxification Unit was 17 years , with the age range 16–18 years accounting for nearly half of all reported first ages of heroin use .
25 We also find that the composite ATPase and elongation factor trees used to root the tree of life are misleading .
26 Many surgeons offer patients an operation only on condition that they give up smoking — and often find that the ensuing improvement makes surgery unnecessary .
27 But even in democratic societies knowledge of the past changes as historical scholarship develops and it is often found that the official record of the time under study contains errors or even deliberate falsification .
28 True to Reid 's claim that the debate jumped to solutions , we now find that a major response to economic decline and youth unemployment has been the Youth Training Scheme organised through the Manpower Services Commission of the Department of Employment , in which the school sector plays little part .
29 The biggest cut comes in Germany where its packaging plant in Braunschweig is to close at a cost of 275 jobs , and the decision highlights the growing structural problem in the German economy : growing numbers of German and international companies now find that the high cost of employment makes it too expensive to manufacture there .
30 In looking at them one will frequently find that the main element of dissatisfaction is sexual or allied to sexual matters .
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