Example sentences of "tests [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no significant difference between PSC and control groups in the frequency of blood groups ( O , 45% v 37% ; A , 54% v 51% ) or in liver function tests undertaken at the time of liver biopsy . |
| 2 | SEFIC examinations , at appropriate levels , may be taken in lieu of the short Oral Tests prescribed for the Second and Third Level English for Business and English for Commerce examinations . |
| 3 | The tests developed by the project team were not related specifically to the curriculum operated by the schools associated with the project but they were based almost exclusively on the topics in the Cockcroft foundation list . |
| 4 | A relatively small number of questions on percentages was used in the tests developed by the project . |
| 5 | But " oral " can also be used of tests given in the form of a one-to-one interview , or where answers are tape-recorded . |
| 6 | This engine was still in the original crate and had only six hours on it as the result of run-up tests done at the factory in 1944 . |
| 7 | The tests done by the National Rivers Authority are different from those that we are doing . |
| 8 | All the patients were seen in consultation and laboratory tests performed at the end of the presently reported follow up . |
| 9 | Twelve patients had revisional surgery and it seems likely that the results of tests helped with the treatment decisions for these patients . |
| 10 | Items on change , and those involving a number of articles costing £x.99 yielded some of the highest success rates obtained in the tests used in the project . |
| 11 | Suppose a judgement about reaching criterion performance had to be made on the basis of the results of the tests used in the consistency experiment described above , what would be the decision for individual pupils ? |
| 12 | In defence of the tests employed by the APU , Foxam , in a letter to the Times Educational Supplement ( 10 October 1980 ) , points out that the teachers whose pupils took the tests thought that the language in the written tests was appropriate . |
| 13 | The range of subject matter is , as always , extensive ; the Melbourne Cricket Ground , a history of Durham CC , the evolution of fast bowling , Gooch 's milestone of 7,000 Test runs , the participation in cricket of women in Victorian England and a tongue-in-cheek press report from the year 2045 mentioning the 54 Tests played in the calendar year , striped uniforms for each of the four umpires , and stiletto marks on the floor in the Long Room at Lords 's . |
| 14 | The difficulties mostly concern tests based on the antagonism of sister-senses ( i.e. senses associated with a single lexical form ) . |
| 15 | The result of social and cognitive tests administered to the children between the ages of one and three obliged the authors to conclude that their data provided ‘ little or no support for the notion that how a mother interacts with her baby during the baby 's first few months of life has any particular consequences for later social or cognitive development ’ . |
| 16 | And this is why it will be particularly damaging to introduce the tests proposed by the Secretary of State to monitor what children know and can do at fixed ages , 7 , 11 , and 14 . |
| 17 | To say that a given rule is valid is to recognize it as passing all the tests provided by the rule of recognition and so as a rule of the system . |
| 18 | Is this process of finding out ( performing tests indicated by the definition ) classification ? |
| 19 | One would be to say that the predicating of names like ‘ white ’ does not involve classification ( taking classification to be the performing of tests indicated by the definition of the general name ) . |
| 20 | In deciding the second of tests posed by the court in Waterfield , the court will consider not merely whether or not the power exists , but whether it has been properly exercised , and hold that , if the manner in which an admitted power is exercised is improper , it takes the constable outside the execution of his duty again . |
| 21 | There ai n't no sanity clause ! ’ ) , but the humour of the occasion is dampened by the fact that this maelstrom of accusal and refutation , doing nothing to enhance the good name of psychology in general or the British Psychological society in particular , involves the principle of confidentiality of psychological tests coupled with the issue of a man sent to prison for a crime that — perhaps — he did not commit . |
| 22 | Most of the respondents could manage the tests associated with the comb , cup , spoon , sugar and gloves . |
| 23 | Because of the results of blood tests taken at the time of your accident , Len . ’ |
| 24 | There is no evidence to suggest that the results and findings recorded in this and other chapters of this report do not apply equally to tests taken in the Welsh language . |
| 25 | A statement released by ICI after the fire said : ‘ Atmospheric tests taken within the site boundary indicated negligible amounts of hydrochloric acid in the smoke from the fire . |
| 26 | Karimov claims to have discovered a direct correlation between nuclear tests conducted at the Soviet testing site of Semipalatinsk over the years and earthquakes throughout the former Soviet Union . |
| 27 | The German state prosecutor 's office announced on April 8 that tests conducted on the bones of a man who died in Brazil in 1979 confirmed that the body ( discovered in 1985 — see p. 33759 ) was that of Josef Mengele , the so-called " Angel of Death " held responsible for the deaths of 400,000 prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War . |
| 28 | The Commission 's recommendations for the extension of DNA profiling must be accompanied , as the Commission 's own researchers proposed , by the safeguard that legal aid should be provided in all cases to a defence expert to carry out an assessment of the evidence by replicating the tests conducted by the prosecution and considering their interpretation of the results . |
| 29 | One of the tests constructed during the 1930s is the Peabody Library Information Test designed by Shores and Moore . |
| 30 | Once a newly proposed bold theory has succeeded in ousting its rival , then it in turn becomes a new target at which stringent tests should be directed , tests devised with the aid of further boldly conjectured theories . |