Example sentences of "find that [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Less than a month after Mrs Stanfield had returned to Caversham , the God-fearing people of Reading were shocked to find that similar gruesome discoveries were appearing on their stretch of the river . |
2 | Yet despite their insistence on a new form of human experience ( one which is curiously reminiscent of the early sociologists ' insistence that late nineteenth and early twentieth societies were emerging into a new society which was leaving behind gemeinschaft relations of blood and community ) it is somewhat surprising to find that contemporary postmodern theorists give only schematic attention to human consciousness and agency . |
3 | Bach also found that certain homoeopathic remedies could change the bacterial flora of patients although no conventional drugs or dietary regimes had produced any significant change . |
4 | The 1988 British Social Attitudes Survey found that traditional female tasks such as cooking and cleaning are more likely to be shared equally when the woman works full-time . |
5 | Another doctor found that his severe disability inhibited psychiatric patients from discussing their problems , and an occupational therapist found that elderly confused patients occasionally lacked confidence in her but she managed the situation by reassuring them and immediately focusing attention back on them . |
6 | Dravis & yurewicz ( 1985 ) found that blue light emission spectroscopy aided identification of predolomitization fabrics ; Goodall & hughes ( 1985 , personal communication ) successfully used this technique in evaporite petrography . |
7 | Furthermore , they found that female clerical workers were much less likely to achieve promotion than their male counterparts . |
8 | Judy Dunn found that two-year-old second-born children were just as likely as their elders to initiate a quarrel , to tease , and to hit . |
9 | I found that ordinary narrow masking tape was the answer . |
10 | A study of the fans of Oxford United and Millwall found that actual physical violence played only a small part in life on the terraces ( Marsh , Rosser and Harre , 1978 ) . |
11 | A good example of this well into the twentieth century is the evidence of the Women 's Co-operative Guild investigation into Maternity during the First World War , which found that pregnant working-class women often saved for the coming confinement by stinting on food , and there is plentiful evidence of similar attitudes earlier . |
12 | This neuronal organization is unique to the r4/5 region and in r2/3 we found that trigeminal efferent neurons traced from the exit point in r2 are more laterally placed , with their axons all extending laterally through the neuroepithelium ( Fig. 2b , f ) . |
13 | Paxton 's SRI trials ( Paxton 1977 ) found that island-driving improved performance for shorter sentences but decreased it for longer ones . |
14 | The roots of modern pharmacology lie in the empirical discoveries of the past century , when medical men found that single therapeutic agents could effect seemingly miraculous cures . |
15 | Petersen et al under similar controlled conditions found that slow intragastric infusion ( 28 g/h ) of pure ethanol at concentrations of 5% , 12% , and 36% had no effect on gastric acid secretion . |
16 | She found that muddy brown eyes had been replaced by alert blue ones . |
17 | More representative research , such as that conducted by Parker ( 1980 ) in this country and Schwab ( 1976 ) and her colleagues in the USA , found that voluntary early retirement was relatively rare . |
18 | A study conducted in the early 1970s found that non-manual ethnic minority workers earned 77 per cent of the earnings of their white colleagues , skilled manual 89 per cent , while for semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers the earnings were the same . |
19 | H. D. Crone , a scientist with Australia 's Defence Science Technology Organisation examined the samples and found that tell-tale yellow spots on them ‘ are obvious fakes ’ . |
20 | The report by the all-party Commons home affairs committee yesterday on racial attacks and harassment finds that serious reported offences have declined but that the total of less serious incidents has increased . |
21 | It was found that certain valuable cash crops like coffee , cocoa , oil palm and pepper grew well along rivers and that under the forest there was probably enough iron ore to meet world demand for 400 years , large deposits of bauxite , gold , nickel , copper and tin . |
22 | It was also found that C-terminal flanking sequence down to the 127th or 165th amino acid residue slightly stimulated the activity of clone 1–110 . |
23 | Moreover , since Watkins 's death we have found that inexplicable straight lines have been left by ancient peoples in other parts of the world . |
24 | Beyond the age of about 55 , to an increasing degree in older people , it is found that previous premarital experience of sex decreases , especially among women . |
25 | The grain size of igneous rocks is strongly influenced by the rate at which they cooled when formed , and not surprisingly we find that intrusive igneous rocks nearly always have a coarser texture than volcanic rocks . |
26 | They estimate the model using maximum likelihood techniques and find that unanticipated monetary growth does generally have a positive effect on real output . |
27 | States that are exploring a tough policy which borders upon coercion like Kenya will either find that open political protest will challenge the power of the state , or that like family planning in India , an onslaught upon the least economically and politically powerful is only temporarily feasible . |
28 | Employers may find that supporting educational institutions is good for their public image and even direct advertising . |