Example sentences of "measuring [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A slowing of the heart with relaxation might be monitored by an electrocardiograph ( ECG ) , and a reduction in sweat gland activity monitored using apparatus measuring skin conductance levels ( SCL ) . |
| 2 | The means of measuring response varied from attitudinal statements to degree of penile tumescence . |
| 3 | Techniques for Measuring Biomass : |
| 4 | But measuring banking capacity is so difficult that nobody really knows whether an excess exists |
| 5 | Problems abound in measuring income distribution and although there has been a reversal in equality trends since the mid-1970s , middle-class identity in Japan is more closely related to earning middling incomes than attachment to class specific values . |
| 6 | But it does mention them in at least two contexts , one is when you 're measuring noise when it says that changes of twenty five percent should be recorded . |
| 7 | Measuring heritability comes into its own for those characters for which we have no knowledge of the genetics . |
| 8 | In the 1960s , cloze procedure came to be seen by some researchers as the answer to many of the problems of validly measuring text difficulty . |
| 9 | Two often-cited studies are illustrative of the problems of measuring support and assessing its timing , and therefore the mechanisms through which it exerts its effects . |
| 10 | The objectives were to help organisations assess their readiness to purchase and deliver services , individually and jointly ; to plot relationships between agencies ; and to set benchmarks for measuring progress ; and to agree priorities for action . |
| 11 | They agreed on the need to develop common methods of measuring progress in all areas . |
| 12 | To breath life into this quality message , West Midlands insist that all British Gas AND contractors ' employees involved in Period Contracts attend a two day workshop — which covers : History and background of Total Quality ; Competition ; Internal/External customers ; Management style ; Personal Quality ; Measuring progress ; Penalties for poor quality ; Problem solving ; Issues and an action plan . |
| 13 | Solomonoff and Kolmogorov independently invented a systematic way of measuring complexity . |
| 14 | Recently a new method of measuring platelet aggregation has been described ( Cardinal & Flower , 1980 ) which enables platelet aggregation in response to various agonists to be studied in whole blood . |
| 15 | Another way of asking whether cloze gets close to measuring comprehension is to consider what would happen if the sentences in a passage were randomly reordered . |
| 16 | Even if it measures the use of redundancy up to ten words either side of the deletion , this is still not the same as measuring comprehension : as we saw in the Bailey and Harrison study , redundancy and comprehensibility can be very different aspects of a text . |
| 17 | Most a.c. bridges are similar in form to the Wheatstone bridge for measuring resistance described in section 3.9 . |
| 18 | He slid her a coolly measuring look , clearly not accustomed to being told what to do by a mere make-up artist , but to her relief he did as he was bid , lowering himself into the chair and sliding down to tilt his head back into the sink . |
| 19 | A test rig measuring wind strength on a hillside near Nymphsfield in Gloucestershire , operating for just 3 weeks , has already recorded gusts of up to 40 mph . |
| 20 | Let's say we 've got erm a radar for , for measuring speed |
| 21 | And if this goes round a sort of roughly circular track , the we 're not measuring velocity , we 're measuring speed . |
| 22 | Measuring crime : criminal statistics |
| 23 | Users of the 1991 census should nevertheless carefully consider whether crude population totals are the most suitable base for measuring penetration . |
| 24 | Firstly , as the chapter on education will indicate , an effective method of measuring talent and ability has yet to be devised . |
| 25 | The meaning of any percentage figures for reductions in export support would depend on hard bargaining to determine ( i ) the base period against which reductions would be measured ; ( ii ) dates for implementation ; and ( iii ) standards for measuring export values or quantities . |
| 26 | Time passed and more humane , non-invasive methods of measuring blood pressure were devised . |
| 27 | It needs to cover the essentials of self-management : diet , insulin , type and duration of action , injection timing and technique , measuring blood glucose and the normal range , hypoglycaemia , exercise and illness . |
| 28 | Usually it is covert and can only be diagnosed by specifically measuring blood lipids . |
| 29 | There are also machines on sale for measuring blood pressure , to be used at home . |
| 30 | Mathiesen et al found a difference in urinary albumin excretion between captopril and no antihypertensive treatment by measuring blood pressure and urinary albumin excretion every four months in 44 patients similar to ours , but this was true only after four years of follow up . |