Example sentences of "method [prep] detecting " in BNC.

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1 These methods for detecting 14 C are based on two fundamentally different principles .
2 In some areas such as spices , which retain some inorganic minerals , there are good methods for detecting irradiation , while for other foods no reliable methods exist .
3 Included in protection are methods for detecting likely hazard events and in warning those likely to be affected .
4 There is now more awareness of the problems that methane generated in landfill can cause , and improved methods for detecting methane are now available .
5 The project was a broad review of all electromagnetic geophysical methods for detecting submerged conducting bodies that might have military applications .
6 Traditional methods for detecting errors
7 Other methods of detecting fakes
8 Fig 95 Three methods of detecting line bias : Watch a flag ; Position board behind start boat , look at flag and see which end is closer to the wind ; Position board along the line with sail free .
9 In 1940 Williams joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough to develop new physical methods of detecting submerged U-boats from the air .
10 The effective implementation of closed.loop control was inhibited , until recently , by three major problems : i ) The traditional optical methods of detecting rotor position , described in Section 7 , are expensive , because the optical transducers ( Lijoie , 1973 ) may represent a considerable proportion of the total system cost , particularly for small step-antic motors .
11 Current methods of detecting and classifying cholera vibrios take several days and involve culture in alkaline peptone water ( APW ) and on thiosulphate/citrate/bile-salts agar , slide agglutination with specific antisera , and finally toxin assays .
12 New methods of detecting the presence of organic compounds in fish suggest that pollutants may be killing them and other marine species in smaller concentrations than previously thought .
13 A more efficient method for detecting 14 C is to measure the number of atoms present , or a proportion of them , by mass spectrometry .
14 A preferred method for detecting the relative movement is to build a Michelson interferometer with the mirrors mounted on these freely suspended blocks .
15 It offered , too , a way of testing hypotheses and theoretical predictions by providing a method for detecting whether patterns hypothesised by some theory were , in fact , supportive .
16 A useful method of detecting changes in the wind direction is to make a mental note of the point on the shore towards which you are sailing and use this as a reference point .
17 Thankfully today 's woman can expect an easier , faster , reliable method of detecting pregnancy in the privacy of her own home .
18 The key issue here is to establish the need for recording as the only accurate method of detecting change ( good or bad ) in a child 's behaviour .
19 In these circumstances , the sensitivity of this method of detecting portal vein occlusion may be diminished .
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