Example sentences of "survey carried [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Pember Reeves commented on this in her study of Lambeth , published in 1913 , as did Slater and Woodside after a survey carried out during the 1940s .
2 These problems were highlighted in a report issued by the EEC itself , from a survey carried out by the European Science Foundation .
3 A survey carried out by the Labour Party revealed that two-thirds of the authorities questioned were experiencing difficulties in recruiting parent governors , a quarter of them claiming that the problems were serious .
4 Local councils throughout the United Kingdom have stopped using peat in favour of environmentally friendly alternatives , a new survey carried out by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) has found .
5 A sample survey carried out by the Inland Revenue throughout the country suggests that the average national increases will be 7½ times the 1973 level .
6 The Consumer Concerns survey carried out by the National Consumer Council ( NCC ) in 1979–80 revealed a quarter of all respondents encountering problems walking in the previous year , over half of which were considered serious .
7 These should include asking the children themselves how to solve the problem , feeding back their own views to them , and enacting effective laws and enforcing them ( in a recent survey carried out by the local trading standards department of 54 premises selling cigarettes in Oxford a 12 year old was able to buy cigarettes in 13 of them ) .
8 A survey carried out by the Medical Officer of Health for Sheffield in 1912 showed very few MOsH to be in favour of day nurseries .
9 A survey carried out by the British Market Research Bureau revealed that nearly half of Britain 's working population refuse to think about their retirement , with one in three couples admitting that they never even discuss old age between themselves .
10 In a survey carried out in the mid 1960s of 419 businesses in western Nigeria , 74 per cent said that ‘ partnerships or joint ventures were difficult or undesirable because of financial untrustworthiness ’ .
11 It is difficult to obtain accurate figures from the wilder , more snake-ridden parts of the world , such as Africa , Asia and South America , but an attempt at a global survey carried out in the 1950s gave a total world figure of thirty thousand deaths annually from all forms of snakebite .
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