Example sentences of "research [noun sg] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Law Societies have renewed the research contract to enable the Report to be kept up to date , and to help assess how the other Member States are implementing the Directive .
2 A three-year research programme to assess the life-span characteristics and as-built performance of flat roofing systems in underway .
3 Warner Brothers immediately set in motion its own research programme to explore the feasibility of the idea ; it would run for some months before anyone realised it had been an April Fool and abandoned their research .
4 The French government has launched a research programme to map the spread of the algae and to find ways of destroying them [ see ED 56 ] .
5 The US Energy Department has started the Waste Isolation Pilot Project ( WIPP ) , a five-year research programme to test the suitability of an underground site in New Mexico for the storage of nuclear waste from government facilities .
6 research programme to enhance the stability and survivability standards of Ro–Ro passenger ferries .
7 After a few months , the controversy settled down , and the Department of Conservation announced a 3-year research programme to provide the answers to key questions about the status of banks Peninsula population of Hector 's dolphin .
8 Bristol-Myers Squibb is funding a US government research programme to study the Pacific yew , including its genetics , biology , ecology and distribution .
9 His death prompted his mother to launch a high-profile research campaign to isolate the causes of cot death and help prevent it .
10 So the marketing director enters a coalition with the research director to pressure the boss to allocate more resources to product design .
11 The Strategic Study is a three-year research initiative to lay the foundations of a new Institute strategy to help architects practice more effectively in a rapidly changing world .
12 Let them commission a research team to examine the phrase in all the languages of the world , to see how it varies , to discover what its sounds denote to those who hear them , to find out if the measure of happiness changes according to the richness of the phrasing .
13 However , all but three of the 36 liaison group schools collaborated with the research team throughout by continuing to trial packages of materials sent to them and to provide facilities for the research team to visit the schools .
14 The first research team to investigate the prevalence of opioid use through multi-agency surveys and fieldwork was the London-based Drug Indicators Project ( Hartnoll et al .
15 At the moment , no law requires any company or research organisation to notify the HSE of its intention to scale up to fully commercial production in the field of genetic manipulation .
16 To this end conference ( i ) approved a report recommending measures to improve safety at Soviet-built reactors in the east European countries ; and ( ii ) adopted a proposal , submitted by the Soviet Union , to set up a nuclear research centre to study the effects of radioactive contamination at the site of the Chernobyl accident .
17 No doubt a research project to assess the increase of acidity by rain by heather ( Calluna vulgaris ) would also pick up the effect of accumulated dust .
18 Meetings of the Working Group in Prague in August 1990 and Athens in October 1990 were attended , and a proposal for a research project to evaluate the usefulness of floodplain sediments as a low-density geochemical sampling medium was drawn up .
19 Concern over the reported variations in success rates of represented and unrepresented applicants to tribunals led the Lord Chancellor in 1987 to commission a two-year research project to investigate the effectiveness of representation at tribunals ( Genn and Genn , 1989 ) .
20 It is the purpose of this research project to investigate the mechanisms of the decision-making process underpinning the migration of households into that part of rural Britain lying immediately beyond the South East Regional Planning Region ( SERPLAN ) , which , according to all recent population censuses and estimates , is a belt of sustained and substantial population growth .
21 The data comes from the Charity Household Survey , which originated in 1985 when Charities Aid Foundation and a consortium of nine other major British charities commissioned a small market research company to design the survey .
22 The survey arose because two final year students at Imperial College gambled with £6,000 of savings to establish a research company to plug the information gap between engineering industry and the students they wish to recruit .
23 The survey arose because two final year students at Imperial College gambled with £6,000 of savings to establish a research company to plug the information gap between engineering industry and the students they wish to recruit .
24 When the findings have been put into the kitty then relationships between facts and relationships between research studies can be seen more clearly and these in turn will lead the knowledgeable research worker to spot the points where further enquiry needs to be made .
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