One interesting finding is …
 The current study found that …
 Another important finding was that …
 The most interesting finding was that …
 In this study, Xs were found to cause …
 The results of this study show/indicate that …
 On the question of X, this study found that …
 This experiment did not detect any evidence for …
 The most important clinically relevant finding was …

X provided the largest set of significant clusters of …
 It is interesting to note that in all seven cases of this study …
 The most obvious finding to emerge from the analysis is that …
 In the current study, comparing X with Y showed that the mean degree of …
 The results of this study did not show that …/did not show any significant increase in 

Surprisingly, X was found to ….
 What is surprising is that ….
 One unanticipated finding was that ….
 Surprisingly, no differences were found in ….
 This finding was unexpected and suggests that ….
 It is somewhat surprising that no X was noted in this condition ….
 Contrary to expectations, this study did not find a significant difference between ….
 However, the observed difference between X and Y in this study was not significant.
 However, the ANOVA (one way) showed that these results were not statistically significant.

 

 

This study confirms that X is associated with …
 This finding was also reported by Smith et al. (1989).
This finding is consistent with that of Smith (2000) who …
Comparison of the findings with those of other studies confirms …
This also accords with our earlier observations, which showed that …
These results reflect those of Smith et al. (1992) who also found that …
Increased activation in the X in this study corroborates these earlier findings.
These results corroborate the findings of a great deal of the previous work in …
This finding broadly supports the work of other studies in this area linking X with Y.
In accordance with the present results, previous studies have demonstrated that …
It is encouraging to compare this figure with that found by Jones (1993) who found that …
Consistent with the literature, this research found that participants who reported using X also …
This study supports evidence from previous observations (e.g. Smith, 2006; Jones et al., 2011).
There are similarities between the attitudes expressed by X in this study and those described by