Example sentences of "he find that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that personal exchanges with the French could not flow so freely : interruptions for translation disturbed the train of thought . |
| 2 | He found that petty crimes of stealing from work , and the more major crimes of bribery and corruption , often passed unnoticed or were dealt with informally and unofficially by firms . |
| 3 | He found that Deep Level had been carried S.E. on the vein for 30 fathoms beyond the old works and was yielding a little ore . |
| 4 | The most prominent of these were hilltops , and he found that all leys had a hilltop for at least one of their terminal points . |
| 5 | In particular , he found that many researchers admitted to giving cited works positive and negative credit simultaneously in the same reference , a finding which supports the contention advanced by MacRoberts & MacRoberts ( 1984 ) that authors dissemble to diffuse the impact of negative references . |
| 6 | He found that geophysical literature had a half-life of less than three years ) . |
| 7 | In his survey of all incidents involving a solitary offender recorded by the police as rapes or attempted rapes between 1972 and 1976 in six English counties , he found that 204 men were arrested for rape or attempted rape . |
| 8 | He found that six lakes were fishless , including five lochs in the Galloway area , 24 lakes were acidified in Scotland , Cumbria , Wales and Southern England , 37 lakes were vulnerable in all the above areas , and ten waters showed fish loss , in particular the River Esk in Cumbria and the River Forth in Scotland . |
| 9 | He found that Labour councils spent more on education and built more council houses than Conservative councils . |
| 10 | He found that hyperactive children improved dramatically on a diet which excluded all artificially flavoured and coloured foods . |
| 11 | He found that 600 cartons had been set aside ready for him . |
| 12 | But in all cases he found that local people 's blood showed concentrations only marginally higher than national averages , and locally grown vegetables had concentrations within safety limits . |
| 13 | Billig ( 1987b ) asked respondents to list the advantages of a monarchy , and he found that common responses were to cite financial benefits from the tourist trade and the importance of the monarchy for creating social unity . |
| 14 | He found that positive feedback was predictably given most often for accuracy and quantity of reading . |
| 15 | In later years , when he was in the position of having to counsel others he found that these doubts were quite common , and in answering their doubts he answered his own as well ! |
| 16 | He found that open class lexical items were mostly involved in substitution errors , while closed class lexical items were most frequently lost or added . |
| 17 | Coasting a bit , fiddling with his gears , he found that third gear worked . |
| 18 | He found that this feeling was not unpleasant . |
| 19 | However , he found that mature students as a whole obtained better degree results than non mature students . |
| 20 | If as a result of his investigations he finds that committed people display a greater degree of happiness than others then it would be an important piece of empirical information for him to consider . |
| 21 | The dilemma of those who evoke consciousness as the basis of phenomena was succinctly stated by Ronnie Knox in his limerick on idealism : There once was a man who said " God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there 's no one about in the Quad . " |