Example sentences of "studies [vb -s] been " in BNC.

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1 It is here that the Germans have done so much pioneer work , and indeed the whole tendency of their art historical studies has been to regard works of art almost entirely from a chronological point of view , as coefficients of a time sequence , without reference to their aesthetic significance .
2 The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century .
3 Interpretation of the results of these studies has been an important battleground for theoretical disputes over the nature of perceptual learning .
4 The need for user studies has been widely discussed in the past decade , and Chapter 4 of this book looks at the very considerable recent literature on the subject .
5 An even more negative view of such studies has been taken in academic psychology .
6 However , the effect of Bowlby 's studies has been contradictory .
7 A new chair of stained glass studies has been created at York University to which Richard Marks , formerly Director of the Brighton Pavilion and Brighton Museums , has just been appointed .
8 A corollary of these studies has been the classification of places in the UK according to their demographic , employment , and housing characteristics ( Johnson , Salt , and Wood , 1974 , Warnes and Law , 1984 , Champion and Green , 1988 ) .
9 Certainly , it may be admitted that as a consequence of challenges to humanism , the overt force of the national concept within English studies has been diminished ( but far from extinguished ) , and the space for a new and valuable concern with methodology has been opened up .
10 For example , the distinction between pre-clinical and clinical studies has been eroded in some medical courses .
11 Dominating such studies has been a tendency to perceive objects as being reflective in a relatively passive sense .
12 Therefore one major trend in rural public transport studies has been a move away from ‘ behavioural ’ to ‘ need ’ studies and in some cases a joint approach .
13 A series of studies has been designed in this research project to determine how accurately babies can perform the ‘ geometric ’ calculation involved .
14 Information on the effects of social work is frequently not systematically collected ; where a programme of research studies has been conducted over the past decade , it has often proved difficult to develop a co-ordinated body of knowledge which can be applied to future work .
15 The emphasis of many previous studies has been on the ‘ breakdown of democratic regimes ’ rather than their achievement and consolidation ; and they have tended to highlight economic constraints or global influences rather than national political choices and strategies .
16 An incidental byproduct of these studies has been the establishment of a reliable way of measuring several variables of gastric secretion in both the basal and stimulated states in the intact mouse .
17 The outcome of non-randomised studies has been influenced by the fact that the patients selected for surgery tend to be those in good overall condition with a favourable systemic prognosis .
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