Example sentences of "[noun sg] carried out [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Laplacian derivation of the response of a series resonant circuit comprising resistance R , inductance L and capacitance C , to an e.m.f. suddenly applied at time , is worthy of comparison with the direct derivation of the same response carried out in section 4.5 through the solution of appropriate differential equations .
2 Another trial carried out in New Zealand , and widely quoted in the medical literature , apparently failed to find any link between the mother 's diet and colic in breast-fed babies .
3 The results of the national census carried out in November 1991 [ see p. 38563 ] were released on March 19 , and recorded a total population of 88,514,501 , or some 20,000,000-30,000,000 less than figures routinely used by the UN and World Bank .
4 The report by Education Department inspectors , based on a routine inspection carried out in May last year , criticised the school , highlighting ‘ major deficiencies requiring urgent attention ’ .
5 The Hull delegate to the National Conference of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children , in Nottingham in October , was surprised to learn that China is less than half as densely populated as the UK , despite the forcible abortion and sterilisation carried out on women in China and used as a means of genocide in Chinese-occupied Tibet .
6 There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time .
7 Important research carried out at Oxford University by Olivera Petrovich ( 1989 ) suggests that such naivety is something which children learn from adults rather than being innate .
8 Research carried out at Queen Mary and Westfield College , London found that in a major incident at a plant of the type proposed a radius of nine miles could be affected , that is from Bolton in the north to Hale in the south , and from Leigh in the west to the easternmost boundary of Greater Manchester .
9 Research carried out at Bristol University 's social policy and social planning department says women are sometimes made homeless because some housing departments follow the letter of the law too strictly .
10 Following on from this the amount of research carried out into MT was seriously reduced , although there has been some renewed interest ( e.g. SYSTRAN ( Toma , 1977 ) and EUROTRA ( Raw et al , 1988 ) ) .
11 It was an implicit assumption of much of the early research carried out in psycholinguistics in the 1960s ( see Greene , 1972 for a review ) that certain syntactic forms were exactly equivalent in meaning .
12 Research carried out in Bradford during 1979 provides a useful illustration ( Lealman et al . ,
13 A good deal of research carried out in Britain and elsewhere between the late 1940s and the present chiefly by industrial sociologists and psychologists , demonstrates fairly conclusively that a high proportion of people in their sixties and seventies can work effectively at their accustomed or preferred occupation , even when this is physically quite heavy or makes significant intellectual demands .
14 This book is mainly about research carried out in London — home of Britain 's largest Caribbean community , though not necessarily typical of all the Caribbean communities in Britain .
15 The normal pattern for the distribution of funding is a form of the Normal Distribution Curve , with the bulk of funding going to middle-of-the-road research carried out in Departments which are already pre-eminent , as can be seen from the figures for NERC support for geology quoted earlier .
16 How can university personnel be involved to support research carried out in schools by teachers ?
17 Which sociological method do you feel would be most appropriate to the sort of research carried out by Corrigan ?
18 Research carried out by Rentokil scientists has shown the insecticides used to control pests , such as cockroaches , are much less effective if sprayed onto greasy kitchen surfaces .
19 Edwards ( 1986 ) , based on research carried out by Viv Edwards , David Sutcliffe , and their fieldworkers Carol Tomlin and Leighton Bruce , is a study within the " variationist " tradition .
20 BRITAIN 'S next generation of buy-in managers will be experienced managing directors seeking greater job satisfaction and prepared to invest around £100,000 , according to new research carried out by investment capital group 3i .
21 Recently some attention has been paid to the differences in degree results of men and women and an experiment carried out at University College , Cardiff shows that women 's degree classes improve when a system of anonymous marking is used .
22 In an experiment carried out at Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1989 , microscopic floating ocean plants ( phytoplankton ) were taken from the nearby bay and brought into the laboratory , where they were subjected to levels of ultra-violet radiation estimated to be equivalent to the amount of ultra-violet being transmitted through the ozone hole which has been developing in Antarctica each spring in recent years .
23 I now have the results of a small experiment carried out in Cambridge .
24 However , before we discuss the difference between this finding and that of Marslen-Wilson 's demonstration of facilitatory effects of context in auditory word-recognition , we should note that another experiment carried out by Fischler and Bloom ( 1979 ) showed that some facilitation did occur with words which were very predictable from their context .
25 In the experiment carried out by Tannenbaum and Williams , focus of attention was manipulated by prior presentation of a preamble concerning either the acted or acted-upon depicted in the line drawing .
26 This was the rationale behind a recent experiment carried out by Veerman and his colleagues at the University of Amsterdam ( Nature vol 302 , p 248 ) .
27 In an experiment carried out by Anthony Arak , a zoologist from Cambridge University , the large calling male was removed from ten groups ; in eight cases the other group members dispersed .
28 However , in 1887 a careful experiment carried out by Michelson and Morley showed that the speed of light was always the same .
29 Another experiment carried out by Forster and Olbrei ( 1974 : Experiment 5 ) used a rapid serial visual presentation ( RSVP ) in which each word of a sentence is presented successively at an extremely rapid rate ( 16 words/second ) .
30 ’ Do n't talk to strangers ’ — it 's a message drummed into children from an early age , but an experiment carried out by Police indicates that the message is n't getting through .
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