Example sentences of "it was found that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Seeds from the faeces of three species of mammal were subjected to various light treatments and it was found that passage through two of them reduced the effectiveness with which exposure to far-red light overcame the effects of previous exposure to red light .
2 It was found that males and females would become sexually excited and were strongly motivated to mate even though they seemed incapable of correctly carrying out the act of copulation .
3 It was found that gold leaf was generally used by the Romans to plate high-lead bronzes , although at later periods the choice of gilding method was not governed by the metal composition .
4 It was found that decisions about placements were often long delayed while efforts were made to solve the family 's problems .
5 Similarly , as with other studies , it was found that amounts of cotinine , a derivative of nicotine , in nonsmokers exposed to other' smoke were similar to the amounts found in light smokers .
6 It was found that CNV asymmetry was greater in the former condition but the direction of asymmetry did not differ for " functional " and " structural " matches .
7 The idea that p53 may be an essential component of the apoptotic pathway suffered a set-back when it was found that mice without any p53 gene were viable .
8 It was found that anxiety level had no effect on the consistency or direction of eye movement or on the relative extent of left-right deviations of gaze in response to verbal and spatial questions .
9 During early system evaluation it was found that experts much preferred a simple direct dialogue style that presented basic diagnostic information such as test point values and component values , whereas the inexperienced required more directed problem analysis and advice .
10 It was found that mothers preferred to grind up the rice prior to boiling , due to the scarcity of fuel — the ground rice requiring less boiling time and hence less fuel .
11 It was found that changes in volatility in the futures market led changes in volatility in the spot market by up to 15 weeks .
12 Utilizing plasmid DNA and the Taq polymerase amplification system it was found that runs of two or more consecutive G's were the major site of adduct formation with lesser damage at GA AG and GC sites ( 8 ) .
13 But in fact , when comparative levels of spending per head of population were studied by the regional treasurer , it was found that NETRHA spending was more or less right .
14 It was found that women on the high fat diet gained weight more easily than women on the low fat diet and a similar project for men reached the same conclusion .
15 It was found that end-users were able to master the basic commands of the interface sufficiently well to be able to retrieve references on search topics within their fields of interest .
16 Among other things , it was found that index futures prices lead spot prices by a few minutes in the USA .
17 It was found that Staphylococcus aureus protein A had a pronounced inhibition on ADCC ( mean of 71% with a range of 51% to 92% inhibition ) .
18 It was found that growth and mortality were no greater in dense stands of conspecifics than in others .
19 It was found that xenografts treated with histamine were significantly greater than the controls ( p=0.034 ) .
20 It was found that words were named faster ( i.e. , the task was easier ) when they had high spatial redundancy , and the same was true for nonsense nonwords created specifically for the experiment ( e.g. , " cird " and " bosket " , in contrast with " ilso " and " abtion " ) .
21 The effect of passage through the primate gut has been examined in the tamarins in Amazonian Peru , where it was found that germination success rates were about 70% .
22 A few years ago , it was found that nature had done this already : young stellar objects have jets associated with them .
23 In the survey of secondary schools by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate it was found that schools resorted to short- or longer-term exclusion of pupils ‘ only when absolutely necessary and then with reluctance ’ .
24 It was found that schools which experienced budget cuts due to the formula had higher costs because they were small or had surplus places .
25 Each accident was assessed also for its potential large-scale consequences , and it was found that 7% of the accidents could potentially have led to major accidents .
26 It was found that detection latencies were generally longer when the change in ear of presentation took place during presentation of a subordinate clause than during a main clause .
27 In a study of a forest as a whole , the Budongo Forest in Uganda , it was found that 40% of all seeds were eaten by rodents before and immediately after germination and about a further 30% were killed in 2 years by browsing antelope , while there were further losses from seed rot , insect and fungal attack and drought .
28 It was found that antibiotics could have side-effects .
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