Example sentences of "they found [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The only published study that can be directly compared with the Gardner report is that by Mc Laughlin et al on workers at nuclear facilities in Ontario ; they found no increased risk of leukaemia in the children of fathers working in these facilities .
2 The evidence on standards of reading was examined : while the committee judged these inadequate for present-day society , they found no strong evidence of actual decline .
3 They found no pervasive effect of membership in affiliative networks in the presence of stress .
4 In 1989 Mattila et al reported the results of a case-control study in which they found a strong association between dental disease and acute myocardial infarction .
5 Twenty years too late and they found a thousand ways to stop the rise of Hitler , it was the only way for them to keep sane , the survivors .
6 The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look .
7 Overall , they found a greater tendency to underpricing .
8 They found a long platform and the remains of a goods shed .
9 They found a mean deviation due to the Sun 's gravitational field corresponding to 1.760 ±0.016 arcsec at the Sun 's limb , which is in excellent agreement with Einstein 's prediction .
10 They found a receptive audience among farm labourers , particularly in eastern England .
11 When patrolling policemen checked the pub they found a rear window smashed and could hear Joyce and another man inside .
12 Finally they found a cheap bottle of sherry , which had been won in a church bazaar , lying forgotten in a drawer .
13 They found a cheap lodging at last in a back street in Islington , giving their names as Mr and Mrs Smith .
14 But then they found a rich seam of form , thanks to renewed goal power , which narrowly failed to earn European qualification .
15 They found a closer association between GHQ scores and events when those events were categorised according to their emotionally distressing impact than according to change in lifestyle .
16 Using daily data for the period from June 1987 to June 1988 ( 272 observations ) , after allowing for transactions costs of 0.5–1% , they found a substantial degree of underpricing for Nikkei Stock Average futures : 42% of the time there was an underpricing in excess of the estimated transaction costs .
17 The mystery was solved when the Allies captured Radio Luxembourg in 1944 , where they found a new type of magnetic tape recorder combining the two inventions already mentioned .
18 They came home , packed their bags , left Wales for good and set up in Brussels until they found a new house .
19 They found a new billet in a working-class household .
20 When the runners , who included several international competitors , arrived at the crossing at Strensall , near York , they found a single policeman calling them to a halt .
21 When the first people left for the fields in the morning they found a dead dog on the path .
22 They found a theoretical perspective on the matter by developing Baur 's application of Hegel 's dialectic to church history .
23 They found a quiet corner of the yard .
24 Eventually , as the lunchtime crowds subsided officewards and the pub was left to a few loud tourists , they found a quiet corner and sat down with their drinks .
25 They found a marine paradise , a habitat rich in all types of coldwater sea life .
26 Secondly , they found a large number of studies which showed that parents of people with schizophrenia have greater marital disharmony than controls .
27 They found a high degree of positive relationship between areas of faulting and abnormal meteorological events , including UFO activity .
28 They found a significant difference between the two areas in terms of the percentage of breeding pairs with no eggs or eggshells of inferior quality ( e.g. very thin , granular , porous , fragile , without coloured spots ) .
29 They found a wooden bench seat in a corner and squeezed into it with their drinks — Edward had a pint of bitter and Sally a Babycham in a pretty glass decorated with a dancing fawn in a blue neck-bow .
30 They found a median change in alkalinity of -50 u eq/l , with 80 per cent of the lakes showing a loss of alkalinity ( figure 4.15 ) .
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