Example sentences of "a survey [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men 's toiletries producers Lynx have commissioned National Opinion Polls to carry out a survey on men 's attitudes to pressures of living and work . |
| 2 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
| 3 | Despite these criticisms , the report stimulated initiatives based on its recommendations and in the first half of 1981 Her Majesty 's Inspectors carried out a survey of Haycocks II provision in the nine English RACs . |
| 4 | According to a survey of delegates , the majority were happy with the preponderance of ideas-related over object-related sessions . |
| 5 | A survey of hedgerows by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology shows that more than 10 per cent of hedgerows have been lost in the period between 1984 and 1990 . |
| 6 | This issue of sexism has a direct relevance to the main topic of this book : a survey of housewives and their attitudes to housework which I carried out in London in 1971 . |
| 7 | It is nice to have a survey of resorts , necessarily selective , from a good , experienced skier who can weigh so many aspects . |
| 8 | Other ingredients in the exhibition include a series of reworked pictures decorated with dead flowers , a group of vitrines containing small tableaux which correspond to the imagery of his paintings , and a survey of watercolours created during the last ten years and encompassing the familiar iconography of Valhallas and palettes with wings . |
| 9 | The society will consider carrying out a survey of solicitors ' charges for conveyancing to compare them with those of competitors here and with professions in other countries . |
| 10 | The initiative report and papers , updated to incorporate developments in the intervening two years and in particular the impact of AIDS are being published as a survey of drugs research in the 1980's . |
| 11 | The level of graduate recruitment among the top eight accountancy firms has fallen by 9% over the past year , according to a survey of firms carried out by ACCOUNTANCY ( see table below ) . |
| 12 | Woodward described the findings of a survey of firms in Essex . |
| 13 | Besides this , we carried out a survey of males aged 10–35 , among the general population , living in areas where more than 10 per cent . |
| 14 | In a survey of school-children , we might expect that the answers they give in an interview held in the headmaster 's study will be different from those they give at home , or out of doors . |
| 15 | A survey of lands belonging to the manor of Sheffield in 1611 describes the farmsteads and gives the names and measurements of all the fields . |
| 16 | . The erm the gist of it sir is that English Nature er carried out er last year a survey of ponds in this area , though we are not certain that they were able , owing to the exigences er created by the attitudes of certain landowners , er to erm investigate every pond in the area . |
| 17 | A survey of adults in two small Ugandan villages found 20% had some sort of disorder , mostly depressive . |
| 18 | A survey of providers has been completed from which a list of those with whom we will contract will be drawn . |
| 19 | A survey of farmers ' attitudes , and of possible social effects in rural areas will complete the study . |
| 20 | A survey of members we carried out at that time indicated concerns about the costs of implementing regulation , particularly in relation to the audit of smaller companies ( see ACCOUNTANCY , January 1992 , p 21 ) . |
| 21 | In a survey of dreams reported by university students , they found that dream images which were highly vivid also tended to be " surprising " , and at the centre of the visual field . |
| 22 | A survey of earnings in the tax year 1976–1977 made by the Bar for the purpose of its evidence to the Royal Commission on Legal Services showed that the net fees of junior barristers ( before provision for pension , sickness insurance , indemnity insurance and national insurance contributions ) averaged £7,319 , but for barristers who had been only three years or less in practice were only £2,769 . |
| 23 | ( Problems With Debt : A Survey of Creditors ' Perceptions and Practices , May 1989 ) |
| 24 | A spate of fires in disconnected homes , culminating in the deaths of children in Sunderland , prompted Southwick Neighbourhood Action Project to carry out a survey of disconnections on an interwar estate of semi-detached houses recently modernised with gas fires , back boilers and central heating . |
| 25 | Lane and Roberts conducted a survey of attitudes and opinions among the strikers , observed the activities of the strike committee , and had lengthy interviews with management , shop stewards , and strikers . |
| 26 | This is a survey of attitudes towards civil and political rights in Britain based upon over 2000 interviews with the general public and over 1000 interviews with a political and governing elite , namely , party group leaders on local government councils throughout Britain . |
| 27 | A survey of women in Massachusetts has found the average length of a first healthy pregnancy to be 41 weeks and 1 day , with subsequent pregnancies at 40 weeks & 3 days ; Black and Japanese women have shorter pregnancies . |
| 28 | GOVERNMENT health watchdogs are to carry out a survey of women working in computer microchip factories amid fears they may suffer a higher risk of miscarriage . |
| 29 | For example , in 1960 a survey of women at home with young children noted , ‘ Clearly the nature of women 's roles is changing , and the situation at present is one of conflict and stress ’ ( Gavron , 1966 ) . |
| 30 | If you did a survey of women of the age which people can work at , who would be willing to work if work were available , you 'd have er completely different figures . |