Example sentences of "study carried [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One study carried out in Canada showed that 20 per cent of cases could be attributed to true IgE-mediated allergy to food . |
| 6 | A study carried out in Alloa by Professor Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe , in charge of epidemiology at Dundee University , concluded that it did not . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The findings of a pilot study carried out by NATTA on attitudes to the Severn Barrage develop this last point further . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In a study carried out by Morris and Heal ( 1981 ) , residents felt ‘ more secure and confident ’ following the introduction of beat officers . |
| 15 | The study carried out by Tei and Owen ( 1980 ) involved presentation of a grating in central vision while subjects fixated a central point . |
| 16 | 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 . |