Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The reciprocal of the p/e ratio — the earnings yield — is thought to measure the claim by shareholders on a firm 's cash flow , so the higher the p/e the lower the cost of capital . |
| 32 | It has , today , been adapted to measure the effectiveness of operational research . |
| 33 | Carefully designed case-control studies are therefore required to measure the separate effect of radon exposure after controlling for smoking behaviour and other risk factors . |
| 34 | All interviewed felt that there were no simple performance factors that could be used to measure the effect that devolution has on quality . |
| 35 | The great Merseyside Survey of the 1930s carried out from Liverpool University was mainly concerned with unemployment and poverty and , like many local social surveys carried out up and down the United Kingdom , sought to measure the incidence of certain social problems with a view to providing sound empirical data upon which local and central social policy could be based . |
| 36 | Between 1963 and 1974 an attempt was made to measure the abundance and distribution of the common and widespread birds breeding in Sussex woodlands by a series of sample censuses . |
| 37 | Goodlad has been careful to see that the reactions of all participants — pupils , students and teachers — are recorded to measure the success of the scheme . |
| 38 | Thus , for every item included in calculating the price index used to measure the inflation rate , we can write : Price = |
| 39 | COHSE researcher Steven Weeks say his main concern is that the schemes being marketed ‘ are not designed to measure the type of jobs nurses do ’ . |
| 40 | Blood samples should be taken to measure the client 's electrolyte and urea levels as a matter of routine . |
| 41 | There are several devices on the market which are designed to measure the pitch angle with varying degrees of accuracy but , like everything else , the good ones are expensive . |
| 42 | They are connected to a number of probes which are used to measure the water 's acidity levels , temperature , murkiness and so on . |
| 43 | Firstly , it must be realised that , whatever data are used to measure the prosperity of a region , these will not represent the whole picture . |
| 44 | It remained to measure the surface energy . |
| 45 | A number of instruments have been developed to measure the functioning of elders . |
| 46 | Similarly , for any group of items which are intended to measure the same aspect of linguistic functioning , there will be a range of scores for children of a similar age ( see Figure 8.1 ) . |
| 47 | In fact , no calculations were published which attempted to measure the precise costs or specify the benefits to be derived from an ageing population . |
| 48 | Early studies of memory by psychologists concentrated on apparatus such as the memory drum which was used to measure the ability to associate verbal items . |
| 49 | The distance derived from parallax , together with the dispersion measure , could also be used to measure the local interstellar electron density and so enhance our knowledge of the pulsar distance scale based on dispersion measure and the space density of pulsars . |
| 50 | Two scales of ‘ resistance ’ and ‘ interference ’ , designed to measure the intensity of obsessional distress and the intrusion of symptoms on other activities , produced a similar result . |
| 51 | A lot of importance should be attached to looking at what sources of information are needed to measure the social and economic performance of the development agencies . |
| 52 | What new sources of information are needed to measure the social and economic performance of the development agencies ? |
| 53 | The daily spin of the Earth , the roughly monthly orbit of the moon , and the yearly passage of the Earth around the sun , were all used to measure the flow of time . |
| 54 | They are used to measure the ’ distance ’ of the node from an input , as we shall see . |
| 55 | Either that , or the tape being used to measure the distance shrinks — according to the beetles . |
| 56 | The authoritative review of the theoretical and empirical literature from a number of countries conducted by Godfrey for the OECD concluded that all the various methods used to measure the incentive/disincentive effects ‘ indicate that taxation does not have a large and significant effect in the total supply of work effort and that , in particular , the net effect on the labour supply of male family heads is likely to be very small ’ . |
| 57 | Two separate network indices are used to measure the changing patterns of the migrants ' social relationships ; the first is the integration index and the second the urbanization index . |
| 58 | The percentage of glycated haemoglobin in the random sample taken in the visit to the patient 's home ( random haemoglobin A 1 estimation ) was used to measure the level of glycaemic control for each patient . |
| 59 | ( a ) The sub-contractor is encouraged to measure the work himself and submit a detailed account to the surveyor together with any daywork sheets signed by the general foreman . |
| 60 | The MORI survey was conducted to measure the success of the Prospectus and to provide feedback for the second edition , which has now been published . |