Example sentences of "survey [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.

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1 In a survey carried out in the mid 1960s of 419 businesses in western Nigeria , 74 per cent said that ‘ partnerships or joint ventures were difficult or undesirable because of financial untrustworthiness ’ .
2 It is difficult to obtain accurate figures from the wilder , more snake-ridden parts of the world , such as Africa , Asia and South America , but an attempt at a global survey carried out in the 1950s gave a total world figure of thirty thousand deaths annually from all forms of snakebite .
3 In June 1989 a survey carried out in Lecanvey parish found that the majority of local people were opposed to mining on Croagh Patrick , according to the Croagh Patrick Environmental Group .
4 The crime survey carried out in Islington , by contrast , is designed to be explanatory and to predict who is most at risk ( Jones , Maclean , and Young 1986 ) .
5 A survey carried out in 1988 revealed people thought the town needed more shopping choice , more specialist shops and a permanent site for the open-air market .
6 A survey carried out in 1978–9 , during the harvest season between October and March , found that almost 30% of all Salvadorean households were engaged in harvest work .
7 The nurses involved in the IMS survey carried out in 1986 for the RCN gave a clear impression of what they regarded as the important features of the work situation : " good job security " , " good atmosphere " , and " doing a worthwhile job " were cited as by far the most important .
8 A rapid and anonymous survey carried out in Birmingham , England , is described by Rimmer ( 1982 ) .
9 A survey carried out in the province showed that a massive 82pc believed abortion should be allowed to maintain the physical or mental health of the woman .
10 A recent survey of selection methods used by companies in both Britain and France for management selection , demonstrated that although the number of British companies using psychological tests had increased since an earlier survey carried out in 1984 ( Robertson and Makin , 1986 ) most organisations still relied on the traditional selection methods of the application form , interview and letters of reference ( Shackleton and Newell , 1991 ) .
11 It found that a total of 57 were at risk of permanent damage , compared to 43 in a similar survey carried out in 1988 .
12 Compared with a survey carried out in 1985 , Inform found that many companies had switched their emphasis from cleaning up polluting waste to cutting it out at source .
13 Now it reports in here a survey carried out in The Doctor , September the twenty sixth , and it was asking there who they actually supported in terms of the National Health Service changes , and you may be surprised to hear who in fact came out on top of that .
14 A recent council survey carried out in the Denes showed about a third of dog owners use the bins .
15 According to a survey carried out in RENFE in 1984 , for example , some 64 per cent of respondents claimed to be children of employees and 14 per cent to be grandchildren of railway workers ( Encinas 1986 : 53 ) .
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