Example sentences of "survey [vb pp] out by the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Surveys carried out by the council and school children showq a marked increase in traffic over the last year .
2 The major impetus for this work have been the national surveys carried out by the Home Office , the British Crime Surveys of 1982 , 1984 and 1988 .
3 These surveys add data to those furnished by previous surveys carried out by the Preservation Division in recent years , that measured the brittle paper problem in the Library and the condition of particular areas of the special collections and manuscript collections .
4 Excise tax data showed a 4 percent increase in smoking in 1990 , and household surveys carried out by the Health Department confirmed the increase .
5 While there are no completely accurate figures , the two national disability surveys carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) in the late 1960s and 1980s indicate that there are alive today just under 100,000 people aged 50 or older who have been disabled for 20 or more years , and that around another 200,000 will reach this age within the next 10 to 20 years ( Harris , 1971 ; Martin et al . ,
6 A reference to a payment of £10 , towards a Survey carried out by the Greenodd Canal Co. , is of very great interest .
7 THE BRITISH teenager is happy at home and one in three do not want to leave the parental nest ever , according to a survey carried out by The Indy this week .
8 A survey carried out by the BBC indicates that before television broadcasting began , 69% of respondents thought televising the House of Commons ‘ a good idea ’ ; only 14% though it ‘ a bad idea ’ .
9 An even more recent survey carried out by the Society for Companion Animal Studies , and based on interviews with 10,500 households , revealed a surprisingly high 70 per cent of the general population and 84 per cent of dog owners think that dogs help us relax and reduce stress .
10 A survey carried out by the Silsoe Research Institute for the Health and Safety Executive found 156 out of 210 ptos inspected damaged .
11 In 1979 , a survey carried out by the Manpower Services Commission showed that 65 per cent of those people unemployed for more than one year were over thirty-five years of age .
12 ‘ Modern ’ , ‘ really attractive ’ , ‘ well-designed ’ , ‘ easy to use ’ ; these are some of the enthusiastic comments made by sixth-formers in a recent survey carried out by the MORI organisation , to discover what readers thought of the University 's newly-designed Prospectus .
13 Even in 1990 when the recession had started to bite deeply 46 per cent of employers in a major survey carried out by the Training Agency reported recruiting difficulties ( Guardian 14 September 1990 ) .
14 A cross-trainer ( multi-purpose ) shoe will be your best buy , according to a survey carried out by the Consumers ' Association , and as long as your feet are well supported and cushioned you should n't pay more than around £40 .
15 The survey carried out by the traders ' magazine , ‘ Checkout Ireland ’ , came up with the ‘ alarming result ’ that 80pc of retailers have been affected by crime .
16 A survey carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys between 1985 and 1988 estimated that there were more than 6 million adults in Britain suffering from one or more disability .
17 The Queen 's Corgis are officially more popular than her husband , according to a children 's survey carried out by the car firm , Toyota .
18 According to a survey carried out by the Bureau of National Affairs in 1986 , 36% of the responding organisations currently had a smoking policy , 2% were to implement one during 1986 and another 21% had such a policy under consideration [ 7 ] .
19 ONE ESSEX stretch of the M25 is more prone to traffic hold-ups than any other section on the whole of the London orbital route , according to a survey carried out by the Automobile Association .
20 And in Britain , the last survey carried out by the Sports Council revealed that up to 75 per cent of the population were doing very little at all to get fit .
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