Example sentences of "survey [verb] out by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These problems were highlighted in a report issued by the EEC itself , from a survey carried out by the European Science Foundation . |
| 2 | A survey carried out by the Labour Party revealed that two-thirds of the authorities questioned were experiencing difficulties in recruiting parent governors , a quarter of them claiming that the problems were serious . |
| 3 | Local councils throughout the United Kingdom have stopped using peat in favour of environmentally friendly alternatives , a new survey carried out by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) has found . |
| 4 | A sample survey carried out by the Inland Revenue throughout the country suggests that the average national increases will be 7½ times the 1973 level . |
| 5 | The Consumer Concerns survey carried out by the National Consumer Council ( NCC ) in 1979–80 revealed a quarter of all respondents encountering problems walking in the previous year , over half of which were considered serious . |
| 6 | These should include asking the children themselves how to solve the problem , feeding back their own views to them , and enacting effective laws and enforcing them ( in a recent survey carried out by the local trading standards department of 54 premises selling cigarettes in Oxford a 12 year old was able to buy cigarettes in 13 of them ) . |
| 7 | A survey carried out by the Medical Officer of Health for Sheffield in 1912 showed very few MOsH to be in favour of day nurseries . |
| 8 | A survey carried out by the British Market Research Bureau revealed that nearly half of Britain 's working population refuse to think about their retirement , with one in three couples admitting that they never even discuss old age between themselves . |