Example sentences of "find that [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was undoubtedly a big market , as many car firms found that without small robots they could not complete the automation of their paint spraying lines . |
| 2 | Bailey and Harrison found that for certain types of passage cloze scores were potentially unreliable indicators of comprehension . |
| 3 | A mid-1980s ' survey of 650 firms in 130 US industries found that for new processes , lead time and learning curve advantages were rated as being the most important methods of protecting new innovations , while secrecy and marketing-related advantages were generally regarded as being more important than patents . |
| 4 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 5 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |
| 6 | Devlin and O'Cathain found that of 122 children consecutively referred , 22 became dry after a structured interview ( with the child alone as well as with a parent ) , advice on personal hygiene and cleanliness training , daily bladder exercises , and provision of a ‘ star chart . ’ |
| 7 | They found that of those males who reported acute sickness or chronic sickness without any limiting effect on activity , a larger proportion of the lower than the higher socio-economic groups consulted their doctors ; there was no consistent trend in the case of the females . |
| 8 | We found that on two occasions it was unable to copy a large file across 5 floppy discs . |
| 9 | Instead of finding Whites had more favourable attitudes to the police than Blacks , and had been stopped , etc. , less ( as found in the studies of larger areas ) , we found that on some measures Whites were similar to Blacks in their attitude and experience , though there was still a tendency for Blacks to be less favourable to the police . |
| 10 | The researchers found that at three weeks of age , 39% of the infants had been exposed to passive smoking from any source . |
| 11 | Hawton and Blackstock ( 1976 ) found that during these visits the doctors had , in most cases , detected symptoms of psychological distress , including anxiety and depression , and were also aware that the patients were contending with social and relationship difficulties . |
| 12 | A MORI poll conducted in 1981 found that among skilled workers in the North of England , Labour had a 32% lead over the Conservatives . |
| 13 | A MORI poll ( April 1989 ) for a BBC programme , Thatcher 's Children , found that among young voters ( 15 — 28 ) aspirations were distinctly bourgeois . |
| 14 | Dalton found that in industrial plants conflict between line managers and staff specialists arose from the ambition and individualistic behaviour of staff officers , their efforts to justify their existence and gain acceptance of their contribution to the work of the organization , and their dependence on approval by line managers for access to higher staff positions . |
| 15 | In this study , we found that in obese patients psyllium moderately but significantly delays gastric emptying of a solid meal . |
| 16 | For example , Herriot ( 1969 ) found that in passive sentences like The sister was hated by the brother it took longer to name the actor and acted-upon than in corresponding active sentences ( The brother hated the sister ) . |
| 17 | To my great surprise , I found that in all types of managerial organization in many different countries over 35 years , people in roles at the same time span experience the same weight of responsibility and declare the same level of pay to be fair , regardless of their occupation or actual pay . |
| 18 | However , I found that in many instances this slipping action makes the disc useless , as it is unable to cut to any depth before it stops rotating . |
| 19 | He also found that in many instances children were able to correct their own errors when their attention was drawn to them . |
| 20 | Moreover , Adamson et al found that in epithelial-cell-fibroblast cocultures , direct contact between these cells greatly increased the rate of fibroblast growth . |
| 21 | When , however , in one district , private hospitals attempted to provide data they found that in most cases they could not identify patients ' districts of residence ( S Israel , personal communication ) . |
| 22 | Although there are specialist personnel and industrial relations roles , we found that in smaller firms the negotiations with trade unions were carried by a very few managers . |
| 23 | And I found that in some respects that became negative you know … in some ways that also screwed the lesson |
| 24 | The MMC ( 1980 : 97 ) found that in some guards ' depots , twelve-hour days were routinely worked , and that , apparently , ‘ those staff who wish to work their Sundays mostly have the opportunity to do so every other Sunday without strict regard to the numbers actually required to operate train services ’ . |
| 25 | They found that in some patients , self-cutting could be prevented by the provision of physical contact by a therapist , such as in putting an arm round the patient . |
| 26 | The evaluators found that in some schools library committees had become moribund , and although this was often blamed on industrial action , some people did seem to have lost interest once they had received and spent their grant . |
| 27 | I found that after 2 hours of playing the small adventure game called Wumpus my friends youngest child lost all her worries about pressing the wrong key , except that she kept falling down the cavern when she did . |
| 28 | When we published our reports on country houses at risk ( Tomorrow 's Ruins , Silent Mansions and Endangered Domains ) we found that within two years up to two-thirds of the houses had found new owners or new uses . |
| 29 | 1986 ) found that by 8 years of age only 3.3 per cent of children had never been dry at night but another 4 per cent had relapsed after achieving control ( secondary enuresis ) . |
| 30 | In innumerable works one finds that for many movements the last bar of one movement changes to the time signature of the following movement . |