Example sentences of "study carried [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In a study carried out of job interviews in America , it was discovered that most interviewers had made decisions about a candidate in the areas just mentioned within the first four minutes of the interview .
2 A study carried out at Aberdeen University discovered rather depressing facts about communications between adults and their children as observed in three-minute periods in streets , buses and shops .
3 A survey based on a stratificational analysis is not appropriate or feasible for a sociolinguistic study carried out in Brazil ; the chief objections are that the notion of a continuum is neither congruent with the sharp distinction between rich and poor , nor does it adequately discriminate between the individuals studied , all of whom were relatively poor .
4 In this context it is worth looking at a recent study carried out in California by Harbicht Research Inc for Southern California Edison , a local utility company who investigated how local residents felt about a proposed " wind-farm " project .
5 For example , one study carried out in El Salvador concluded that children born after short intervals were of poor nutritional status owing to the effect of the short interval on breastfeeding .
6 One study carried out in Canada showed that 20 per cent of cases could be attributed to true IgE-mediated allergy to food .
7 A study carried out in Alloa by Professor Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe , in charge of epidemiology at Dundee University , concluded that it did not .
8 The results of a fifteen month study carried out in Utah , USA ( 1991 ) found no evidence that the introduction of warning labels on drinks packaging had affected knowledge and perceptions of the nature of alcohol .
9 PREGNANT women who eat a light snack shortly before giving birth can shorten labour and produce a stronger heartbeat in their baby , a study carried out in Belfast shows .
10 This is the conclusion drawn by a study carried out by researchers at University College , London .
11 A study carried out by Kerr for the Department of the Environment found that it was the better properties with gardens that were most likely to be bought ( especially three-bedroomed , semi-detached houses ) while the number of flats purchased remained small .
12 A recent study carried out by Management Today of the top 250 performing companies , highlights Rentokil at No. 46 .
13 The findings of a pilot study carried out by NATTA on attitudes to the Severn Barrage develop this last point further .
14 In a similar way , the study carried out by Christine Shiu ( this volume ) revealed pupils ' mathematical thinking within a topic , which was of considerable value in planning the teaching .
15 The following example of a telephone dialogue comes from a study carried out by Elena Lieven and myself , in which one child ( the hider ) was asked to explain to a friend where she had hidden an object in a room in which the friend was sitting .
16 In the study carried out by Blackmore she found that a cotton towel removed bacteria more efficiently than did paper towels but concluded that both types of towel were far superior to warm air drying methods .
17 In a study carried out by Morris and Heal ( 1981 ) , residents felt ‘ more secure and confident ’ following the introduction of beat officers .
18 Hazard and Operability Study A study carried out by application of guide words to identify all deviations from the design intent with undesired effects for safety or operability , ( Reference 6 ) .
19 The study carried out by Tei and Owen ( 1980 ) involved presentation of a grating in central vision while subjects fixated a central point .
20 The results of a study carried out by Johns ( 1991 ) suggest that in this genre simple verbs without modals or closely linked prepositional phrases are regularly fronted while long and syntactically complex subjects are not .
21 There were 47 control studies , 50 research studies ( no clinical diagnostic problem ) , and 375 studies carried out as part of the clinical service offered by the Department , at the request of consultant clinicians .
22 Because of the sort of problems outlined above ( for a more detailed discussion the reader is referred to Mayer ( 1960 ) and Piercy ( 1964 ) it is desirable that the results of studies carried out on patients with brain damage be confirmed , and if possible extended , among normal subjects .
23 The single cell recording studies carried out on rhesus monkeys show a very good correlation between the blobs and wavelength tuning , suggesting a role in colour vision .
24 It accepted the British government 's contention that environmental impact studies carried out at Twyford Down and the four other projects satisfied the spirit of the EC 's environmental assessment directives .
25 Studies carried out in Hull , did nothing to confirm this prediction .
26 A number of independent research studies carried out in California , Massachusetts , Hawaii and London have shown that moderate drinkers have a lower mortality rate than total abstainers and are less likely to suffer from coronary disease .
27 In the past some of the most famous research studies carried out in Britain by means of social surveys have not been concerned with testing hypotheses .
28 Results of studies carried out in Great Britain and the United States serve as illustrations .
29 Our results agree with studies carried out by Roncucci et al , Bleiberg et al , and Terpstra et al , however , who have all found that subjects with adenomatous polyps had a significantly higher labelling index than those with no colonic disease .
30 Throughout the 1970s and 1980s , controversy has raged over cost-benefit studies carried out by water authorities to justify large land-drainage schemes .
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