Example sentences of "find that a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luce opened her eyes to find that a burly stranger in workmen 's overalls was at the wheel , and she was lying cradled against Michele 's chest , her head on his shoulder . |
| 2 | He was horrified to find that a British grocery family , close relatives of the Jews who had taken over his lands , had title to the property . |
| 3 | The easiest thing to do is stop reading , to find that a whole year has passed without even a glimpse of a business book . |
| 4 | The courts will generally be reluctant to find that a natural event breaks the chain of causation as the plaintiff has no-one else to sue if the defendant is exonerated . |
| 5 | The carrack was brought to anchor in the Bay of Cascais two evenings later , and after an uncomfortable night rolling about in the confused waters of that harbour , Sara rose early and went on deck to find that a thick mist had descended . |
| 6 | Some authors supported combined use of both agents with good results , while others found that a sclerosing agent does not improve haemostatic rates . |
| 7 | As Stephen Leacock and I walked down the street after that luncheon we found that a small crowd of students was gathered around the white statue . |
| 8 | Similarly , Pound and her colleagues ( 1985 ) found that a long history of depressive illness in a mother , or a combination of depression and personality problems , was associated with problems ( especially of sleeping ) in her children . |
| 9 | He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax . |
| 10 | Even so , I found that a curious structure remained at the service 's centre . |
| 11 | For example , in his national survey of household resources and standards of living , Townsend found that a higher proportion of older lone women than lone men had less than £100 worth of assets and fewer than six consumer durables . |
| 12 | In analysing tax schedules , the Messere study found that a higher proportion of taxpayers ( over 95% ) paid the basic rate in the UK than elsewhere , and that both the initial and top rates of tax on earned income were higher in the UK than elsewhere . |
| 13 | We adjusted the instrument to full sensitivity , and found that a standard fish — a 330-g live trout — barely registered at depths below 150 m . |
| 14 | In 1992 George Uhl , of Johns Hopkins , found that a second variant of D2 , known as B1 , seemed peculiarly common in people addicted to tobacco , cocaine , heroin , tranquillisers , marijuana and amphetamines as well as alcohol — almost the whole list of commonly addictive substances . |
| 15 | In his research on Mexico and Brazil , he found that a good proportion of his samples were interested in following national and international news on the radio and in the newspapers ( Kahl 1970 ) . |
| 16 | In Chapter ii we found that a good deal of social science has been informed by this view ; but it is nevertheless natural to wonder why individualism should be excluded from the group of disciplines that aim to provide us with a grasp of the social world . |
| 17 | When Nigel went into the Left Arts Review he found that a good review of Eleanor 's book was ready and waiting . |
| 18 | If the points were electrically stimulated to induce correct electrical balance , the impending physical changes were averted , In many cases they found that a pathological condition could be reversed by stimulating and rebalancing the points . |
| 19 | But they found that a tremendous amount of grain was lost by being shed on to the stubble . |
| 20 | In particular , Siegel ( 1967 ) found that a close examination of his results led to the conclusion ( see also Riley 1968 ) that it was unwarranted to assume that responses learned in the first stage could not be the source of the transfer seen in the second . |
| 21 | They found that a large proportion of the children had already spent the greater part of their lives in care . |
| 22 | In a recent case , Oxford University stripped a graduate of his doctorate , because a tribunal found that a large part of his thesis was similar to one borrowed from the library of another university . |
| 23 | Despite the acceptance of this principle the Commission found that a large number of people were not obtaining adequate legal services and set out the principles that should , in future , govern the provision of legal services : |
| 24 | Zander found that a large number of payments in were accepted and that it was a tactic well used by defendants . |
| 25 | When the Spanish conquerors entered Mexico they found that a special variety , the fire opal , having a clear orange or yellow body , was held in high esteem by the Aztecs . |
| 26 | ( Italian Railways found that a high proportion of passengers became travel sick on the train . ) |
| 27 | However , in a regional survey of LEA policy initiatives in the arts , Tweddell ( 1988 ) found that a high proportion of LEAs had included the arts within their individual local priorities . |
| 28 | They found that a local custom in the country was to walk around barefoot at all times of the year and in all weathers . |
| 29 | In his private practice he had adults in psychoanalysis and some children too , though with children he now concentrated more on the ‘ therapeutic consultation ’ , where he found that a single interview could at times unhitch a developmental hold-up . |
| 30 | found that a left field superiority in reaction time emerged only with an inter.stimulus interval of 100 msec. or longer . |