Example sentences of "[Wh det] looked at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Praising Durkheim , Eliot had written about and summarized Max Müller 's attitude ( largely based on Sanskrit philology ) , which looked at primitive religion chiefly through its myths , finding in primitive deities personifications of larger forces of nature and seeing in the primitive mind a sentiment of wonder at such forces , a basic intuition of the ‘ infinite ’ . |
| 2 | What happens , reckons the study ( which looked at 88 big , troubled firms , 41 in chapter 11 and 47 in workouts , between 1983 and 1990 ) , is that creditors give up some of their seniority rights as a carrot to get management to agree to a deal . |
| 3 | The Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment ( COMARE ) , which looked at both the Sellafield and Dounreay findings on behalf of the government , concluded that they supported the hypothesis that ‘ some feature of the nuclear plants … leads to an increased risk of leukaemia in young people living in the vicinity ’ . |
| 4 | A 1987 study by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys which looked at all nuclear installations in England and Wales had identified an increased incidence of the illness round those sites built before 1955 . |
| 5 | Another study which looked at men whose wives had died of cancer of the cervix has shown that there is a much higher incidence of cervical cancer among their second wives than would be expected by chance . |
| 6 | The dinner marked a Reporting Japan conference , which looked at the way western journalists report Japan . |
| 7 | Having worked through these exercises which looked at what you enjoy , what you are good at and what you need , complete the following table . |
| 8 | Venezuela presented a paper on the ‘ Protonorms of Communication Ethics ’ , which looked at the need for a new ethics of communication animated by fundamental universal principles . |
| 9 | ‘ The Home Office has funded various research projects , one of which looked at the effect of murder on the victims ’ families ; this has enabled local schemes to help victims of the most serious crime . |
| 10 | Two separate tests which looked at such general knowledge were constructed . |
| 11 | There were two tests of number concepts which looked at pupils ' understanding of whole number and decimal place value , the number line , and some aspects of fractions . |
| 12 | The National Child Development Study , which looked at the progress of every child born in Great Britain in one week of 1958 , found ‘ a strong association between social class and reading and arithmetic attainment at seven years of age . |
| 13 | Arms threw dirt aside , stiffly pulling torsos out of the earth , shoulders shovelling the dirt aside to allow heads to rise and turn uncertainly , glancing about blankly through bulging eyes which looked at everything and saw nothing . |
| 14 | One of his assistants had worked slowly and laboriously through the records and come up with half-a-dozen prints which looked at least similar to the ones taken from Paula Wilson . |
| 15 | Under the old set up , I ran a course which looked at the problems of language learning chronologically . |
| 16 | Hough and Mayhew ( 1988 ) regard these figures as underestimates and Worrall and Pease ‘ s ( 1986 ) re-analysis of the BCS data which looked at all crimes , and attempted crimes , involving contact and where the victim could identify whether or not they knew the offender , found that women were much more likely to say that they knew the offender well and that the offender was a spouse in nearly 40 per cent of cases . |
| 17 | Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) . |
| 18 | A Home Office study ( HO 1/89 ) which looked at probationers in 1984 found that of some 110,000 people on probation , only 4 per cent were black , 2 per cent were Asian and 1 per cent were ‘ other ’ . |
| 19 | We will begin by discussing an experiment by Dooling ( 1971 ) which looked at the effect of having a specific prior context on the speed of sentence comprehension . |
| 20 | Before the move , there was a consultation procedure with staff which looked at issues like layouts , team placing and furnishings . |
| 21 | The cloud had dispersed and it was a fine evening when we entered Tobermory which looked at its picture-postcard best . |
| 22 | Last month saw the start of a three-part series by Patricia Spallone on genetic engineering ( GE ) , which looked at some applications on plants , bacteria , viruses and animals and the need for feminists to put biotechnology , the industrialisation of life on the political agenda . |
| 23 | Secondly , from the point of view of lexical discrimination , Zue in the above paper summarizes studies which looked at equivalence class sizes for a 20,000 word lexicon represented using six broad phonetic categories . |
| 24 | Around 100 members and guests participated in the programmes , the first of which looked at the future economic development of Scotland while the second examined the social and political circumstances relating to the ambitions outlined in the first . |
| 25 | The study , which looked at three SSDs in the north-west of England , was initiated after departments expressed concerns about their ability to cope with new remand arrangements under the Criminal Justice Act . |