Example sentences of "of studies of " in BNC.

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1 His unusual topic gave Fry trouble with the title of his lecture : ‘ The mere fact that we have no word to designate that body of studies which the Germans call Kunstforschung — a body of studies of which the actual history of Art is only a part — is significant .
2 Picasso also made a series of studies of Lopokova and Massine in the can-can for Massine 's Boutique Fantasque .
3 A series of studies of such businessmen have been conducted by Nigerian scholars , and these are particularly significant given the fact that Nigeria accounts for one third of ‘ value added ’ in manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole ( excluding South Africa ) .
4 In a similar vein there has recently been a whole range of studies of pre-industrial states by anthropologists , largely in terns of class analysis .
5 A survey * of studies of costs has just been published by the OECD 's general economics division ( which shows how mainstream economists are being drawn into what was once a green ghetto ) .
6 Aid for them anyone ? * ‘ A survey of studies of the costs of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions ’ , by Peter Hoeller , Andrew Dean and Jon Nicolaisen .
7 A cursory study of motivation in education reveals a multitude of studies of pupil motivation but virtually none of teaching staff , let alone non-teaching staff .
8 What we need to determine now is what further processes , if any , must be assumed to operate during the habituation procedure if the results of studies of latent inhibition are to be explained .
9 There is some reason to doubt that all the discrepancies can be eliminated by taking account of the short-term/long-term distinction : Lantz 's ( 1973 ) demonstration of superior latent inhibition with spaced trials came from a procedure in which the first conditioning trial followed the last trial of pre-exposure ; James ' ( 1971 ) demonstration of perfect retention used , in training , the interstimulus intervals typical of studies of short-term habituation .
10 Evidence to support this interpretation comes from a series of studies of partial reinforcement in autoshaping by Collins , Young , Davies , and Pearce ( 1983 ) , Collins and Pearce ( 1985 ) , and Pearce , Kaye and Collins ( 1985 ) .
11 Evidence that recognition of an event can survive a change of context when other forms of learning do not comes from a variety of studies of human memory .
12 In his excellent review of studies of ‘ what managers do ’ , Hales has argued that three areas of difficulty may be encountered in the published research evidence on managerial work , viz :
13 Introducing an interesting collection of studies of classrooms in different countries , Frankish comments ; ‘ Different as the classrooms described in this issue may appear , it is still surprising that they are so alike ’ .
14 Dozens of studies of the genetic material itself , the DNA , and the proteins it encodes , indicate that these change in a random statistical fashion , but at fairly steady rates over evolutionary time .
15 Immediately following the nationalisation of the coal-mines in Britain at the end of the Second World War a team of social scientists from the Tavistock Institute in London began an extensive series of studies of work organisation in that industry .
16 What , however , a large number of studies of the effects of regulation do show is that there are frequently unintended consequences of regulation which impose a cost on society that must be weighed against the expected benefits of the regulation .
17 In the course of studies of saline intrusion near wells and in regional aquifers , a computer model developed to simulate scavenger well pumping in Pakistan agrees well with field observations .
18 This was followed by a series of studies of the relationship between living environments , the elderly , and ill health ( Exton-Smith 1955 ) , and of methods of minimizing length of stay in hospital by the establishment of out-patient assessment and follow-up clinics ( Adams et al 1957 ) , day hospitals ( Cosin 1954 ) , and preventive health care ( Anderson and Cowan 1955 ) .
19 During the post war period there have been a number of studies of the transition from school to work .
20 The Glasgow University Media Group 's series of studies of press and TV coverage of major events relies heavily on the technique .
21 La Fontaine , in her review of studies of British kinship suggests that there seems to be ‘ a preference for particular siblings rather than a general solidarity with brothers and sisters ’ ( La Fontaine , 1985 , p. 54 ) .
22 This is reflected in a number of studies of kinship , but I shall use the terms employed by Firth , Hubert and Forge ( 1970 , ch. 6 ) .
23 As a major zone of primary production , the eastern equatorial Pacific continues to be the focus of studies of modern and geological oceanic and climatic processes .
24 In addition the literature has a definite ‘ social problem ’ orientation , which is shown most clearly in the vast number of studies of the ‘ working mother ’ .
25 A consistent finding of studies of depression is that rates for women are approximately double that for males of similar groups ( see Figure 5.3 ) .
26 There have been a number of studies of poverty in the UK that have been made over the past twenty-five years that have consistently indicated that a substantial minority of people may experience serious relative deprivation .
27 And Hugh Schonfield 's on-going series of studies of first-century Palestine was appearing at regular intervals throughout the 1970s .
28 Beatrice Webb initiated a number of studies of aspects of poverty for the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws of 1905–09. [ doc .
29 It therefore lacks the precise single end point of studies of survival after infarction but for the patient who survives an acute coronary attack questions such as whether he will be able to return to work and earn his living , to lead an active family life and to enjoy his leisure pursuits are of the greatest importance .
30 The global success not only of Japanese enterprise in the 1980s but also of the other NICs of East Asia has been seen by some commentators such as Blunt ( 1989 : 21 ) as a spur to the renaissance of studies of effective leadership in recent times .
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