Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] found that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As there may be in excess of 1000 mouth to feed , then it can prove difficult to keep up a constant supply of live foods and the authors have found that dried food is adequate as a first food .
2 Not surprisingly , the ecologists have found that human influence looms largest among the causes of the bay 's ills .
3 Some social workers have found that such directness produced an admission which enabled some honest work to take place and help to be offered .
4 Other surveys have found that many parents , especially those who use public transport , do not want to turn children into commuters , dragging them to a workplace nursery every day .
5 Many farmers have found that similar benefits apply to calf rearing .
6 If IQ were entirely inherited ( a contentious assumption ) and if IQ were related to crime ( many studies have found that low IQ is ) , this would be perfectly compatible with an environmental explanation : it could well be that people with low IQ are treated unfavourably by others and this unfavourable treatment makes them more likely to commit crime .
7 Other studies have found that caring relatives are more likely to favour residential care as a solution for the elderly confused if the old person exhibits difficult behaviour ( Levin et al . ,
8 A survey by German scientists has found that many fish in the North Sea suffer from tumours , bacterial ulcers and liver damage caused by pollution .
9 In the case of tampons , apart from the still-present dangers of Toxic Shock Syndrome , doctors have found that many women suffer from drying and ulceration of the vaginal membranes , which itself can allow toxins to enter , and in the United States researchers found fibres from tampons embedded in the vaginal wall .
10 Dutch scientists have found that acid-loving rush and sphagnum species have taken over from Lobelia and Littorella ( reduced from 500 to 30 sites ) and 20 other rare plants of heathland pools .
11 The courts have found that this requirement was satisfied by a building society , a person indemnified by the Automobile Association , an insurance company and a county police authority .
12 Moreover researchers have found that internal inconsistencies in hospital case notes are common , especially in children with a low birth weight .
13 US researchers have found that healthy people exposed to ozone in laboratories for several hours lost 40 per cent of their lung power .
14 Public-opinion polls have found that contaminated sites are the environmental problem that Americans feel most squeamish about .
15 Lorne Golub at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his colleagues have found that low doses of doxycycline seem to have a direct effect on collagenase , at least in the laboratory .
16 At an ageing research centre in Arkansas , Bob Schmookler Reis and his colleagues have found that cultured skin cells accumulate plasmids as they multiply and reach their natural life span .
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