Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] this study " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of any significant anti-secretory effects , it seems likely that the beneficial action of cisapride reported in this study results from its prokinetic qualities , which might enhance the clearance of acidic gastric effluent from the bulb , and thereby reduce its duration of contact with the duodenal mucosa . |
| 2 | Faecal occult blood testing was not used as an entry criteria nor was its usefulness assessed during this study as the investigations to locate a possible source of bleeding would have been pursued even if faecal occult blood tests had been negative . |
| 3 | The effects of the oil industry observed in this study are also consistent with long established observations on both experimental and human epidemics which Topley summarised 50 years ago as indicating that outbreaks of many infective diseases can be produced simply by ‘ movements of susceptible and infected hosts in relation to one another , and aggregations or dispersals of human or animal herds . ’ |
| 4 | The combination of the use of one or other of these enzymes and the ribotyping technique applied in this study provide a highly discriminatory means of strain comparison . |
| 5 | The manometry tracings of spontaneous ileal motility seen in this study closely resembled the in vivo patterns of small bowel motility described by other authors . |
| 6 | Thus , the amount of sulphate given in this study can be reached by dietary means in a proportion of people . |
| 7 | The assay used in this study measures bile concentrations at a single point in time and may well not be an accurate reflection of overall exposure . |
| 8 | Intra-assay coefficient of variation was <10% in the range encountered in this study . |
| 9 | One strength of the technique used in this study is that it can be applied retrospectively to material produced for other purposes . |
| 10 | The purity of the ganglioside preparation used in this study has , however , never been established , and this work has not been reproduced in other laboratories . |
| 11 | The stimuli and apparatus used in this study were identical to those used in Study 2 . |
| 12 | The heterogeneity of proliferative patterns found within the high risk population used for this study is not surprising . |
| 13 | The approach to meaning taken in this study , as mentioned in the Introduction , distinguishes between two states in which meaning exists in the human mind . |
| 14 | Concern with the disincentive effects of taxation has , however , been a continual theme during the whole period covered by this study irrespective of the prevalent rates of taxation or the level of public expenditure . |
| 15 | The first study during the period covered by this study was conducted in 1952 by the Government Social Survey for the Royal Commission on Taxation . |
| 16 | As we showed earlier in this section , there has not been any serious shortage of capital for investment during the period covered by this study . |
| 17 | We have shown that the EGF antibody used in this study binds reliably to EGF peptide as reported by other workers . |
| 18 | Nonetheless , for subjects to use a scale reliably it is necessary to anchor a scale of subjective risk estimates to possible outcomes , the procedure used in this study to measure subjective risk is a compromise between these requirements . |
| 19 | Finally , until recently , gynaecologists recognised only the classic blue-black lesion as being endometriosis and if diagnosis was restricted to this appearance and to severe cases this would influence the effect of age on the risk of endometriosis reported in this study . |
| 20 | The one year re-infection rate determined by this study was 6.25% . |
| 21 | Figure 1 shows the area covered by this study on the southern edge of the Southern North Sea Basin , relative to known gas fields and discoveries . |
| 22 | However , we feel that the clinical indicators of malignancy emphasised in this study may encourage clinicians to be more aggressive , even when faced with negative endoscopic biopsy specimens . |
| 23 | Changes in both faecal sulphate reducing activity and sulphate reducing bacteria counts during the sulphate feeding period , however , strongly suggest a relation between the metabolism of these bacteria and the changes in methanogenesis observed in this study . |
| 24 | The decrease in pancreatitis related mortality seen in this study has also taken place in Scotland and Göttingen , but not in Bristol . |
| 25 | The amount used in this study given in three doses , however , is small compared with the usual lazative dose of about 60 mmol . |
| 26 | Although bovine and human lactoferrin have molecular and antigenic similarities , immunisation of experimental animals with bovine lactoferrin seldom seems to result in cross immunisation against human lactoferrin , and the lack of correlation between levels of anti-human lactoferrin and anti-bovine lactoferrin shown in this study contradicts the hypothesis that cross immunisation against dietary bovine lactoferrin explains the appearance of anti-human lactoferrin autoantibodies . |
| 27 | Transmissibility is not unique , however , to the epidemic strain documented in this study . |
| 28 | As cimetidine has been shown to enhance natural killer cell cytoxicity it is postulated that this may be a mechanism partly responsible for the inhibition of basal xenograft growth achieved in this study . |
| 29 | The assay system used in this study measures total bile content and does not distinguish between classes of bile acids hence differences in constitution of bile would go unnoticed . |
| 30 | The measurement unit used in this study was similar to a flowchart showing the procedures undertaken to store , retrieve and deliver information to users , which enabled the analysts to consider the possible effects of the proposed solutions on each phase . |