Example sentences of "data [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The size of the experimental groups was calculated to yield a power of 90% to detect a change of biological importance ( 40% ) , allowing for some experimental failures and given the SD of data calculated from preliminary studies .
2 Other researchers have built neural networks to solve the problem of checking the vast amount of data gathered during mass screenings for fatal diseases such as cancer .
3 Having studied data gathered from various sources , the team has assisted staff to programme telephone handsets into ‘ hunt groups ’ , whereby calls can be answered by an alternative to prevent the call reverting to the switchboard unanswered .
4 Data gathered from 300,000 women in 44 developing countries shows that about a third of married women in the developing world are now using modern family planning methods .
5 Some of the added capabilities include Escon optical channel support , data striping across multiple disks and disk mirroring .
6 So far the demographic and market data contained in these records have not been fully extracted before the data are disposed of .
7 The mere listing of resources is not enough — we need to be able to gain rapid access to data contained in these resources , through databases , text retrieval packages , geographic information systems , and image databases .
8 The company explains this by saying that a co-operative-server database hides the complexity of a computer network by enabling applications to access data located on multiple computers as if all the data were stored on a single computer , thus simplifying application building and — it is hoped — improving decisions by making access to information easier .
9 Here they will collect detailed data relating to atmospheric changes .
10 In the past these synthesizing studies have been difficult to perform due to the lack of a technology which allows the storing , retrieval , analysis , manipulation and display of large volumes of data relating to areal units and their properties .
11 In contrast , however , the omission of information for the Westwood nunnery leaves the Worcestershire aggregate defective , while data relating to secular clergy in the Aylesbury hundreds of Buckinghamshire are probably inadequate .
12 Looking at five sets of data relating to different police areas , the author finds that the proportion of defendants given bail who are found guilty of offences committed while they were on bail is around 10 to 12 per cent. , rising to some 17 per cent .
13 The computer program must be able to take data relating to local conditions ( slope , soil type and depth , amount and nature of vegetation cover , and so on ) and output a streamflow record .
14 From the data presented for 19 industries in the United States by Fullerton , Shoven and Whalley ( 1978 ) , the value shares appear to vary markedly .
15 Entry and award data related to advanced courses are divided into two sections , dealing firstly with new courses and secondly with traditional courses .
16 Most of the data came from published materials , advertisements in newspapers and tariffs of various kinds such as the cost of a telephone call .
17 The research will be conducted on the basis of data collated on national laws and practice , interviews and field visits to for example the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation , the International Oceanographic Commission and United Nations in New York , and the maritime centres of universities overseas .
18 Cartographic data consist of digitized maps , that is , maps which have been converted to numerical form by the process of digitizing , which was described in Chapter 4 .
19 Since then there have been estimates made , but these have mostly concentrated on personal injuries and much of the work depended on the retrospective analysis of data collected for other purposes such as litigation and insurance claims .
20 Brown 's chapter on geodemographics discusses an application field where primary data collected for operational purposes are typically evaluated in relation to secondary data derived from sources such as the Census of Population .
21 Of the additional data collected about these stimuli in Groeger and Chapman ( in preparation b ) the first six scales were chosen to be directly concerned with aspects of risk .
22 For the sake of convenience this will be left for Chapter 5 though it is essential to remember that the data collected through social surveys are almost exclusively obtained by means of this method .
23 Data collected at regular intervals from the child 's utterances will be used to analyse the nature of both the phonological and syntactic systems being acquired , and to test the specific predictions of the theory of universal grammar .
24 A composite isothermal curve covering the required extensive time scale can then be constructed from data collected at different temperatures .
25 However , the current concern for acid rain arose when Odén ( 1968 , 1971 ) analysed the 1956–66 data collected at 160 sites of the European Air Chemistry Network ( figure 4.4 ) .
26 But it is clear that the data collected in close investigations of live speech communities are much richer than the data preserved from early language states , and they are observable in a larger number of dimensions and at a much finer level of detail ; thus , the patterns revealed in systematic investigations of live communities appear to the observer as much more variable and multidimensional than historical patterns ( as these are usually reported ) .
27 Data collected in these schools will be compared with data collected in these same schools between 1985 and 1987 .
28 The Economic and Social Research Council has established a series of Regional Research Laboratories to promote the wider use of data collected by academic researchers , commercial organisations and government departments .
29 The report will also suggest policy options which could ensure that important data collected by ESRC-funded projects is not unnecessarily lost in the future .
30 In this article I look at differences between the way girls and boys talk about television , using data collected from single-sex groups of seven and nine year olds in a suburban state primary school with a predominantly White and middle-class catchment .
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