Example sentences of "[adj] study of the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goldman-Eisler ( 1968 ) carried out an extensive study of the pause patterns of spontaneous speech . |
| 2 | Finally , despite statements about the importance of older workers , the Department of Employment have never carried out a specific study of the training needs of the over-50s . |
| 3 | This is an historical study of the business strategies followed by large regional firms facing the loss of traditional markets . |
| 4 | A detailed study of the acritarch assemblages within the Llandovery sedimentary rocks has enabled an improved biozonation scheme to be established . |
| 5 | Perry ( 1982 ) has provided a useful detailed study of the employment characteristics of small manufacturing businesses in Cornwall , classified according to whether they are new starts or movers , and exogenous or indigenous firms . |
| 6 | Such suspicions are justified — not only by individual horror stories , but also by a growing number of scientific studies of the side effects of modern contraception . |
| 7 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 8 | In traditional studies of the way inhomogeneities — lumps of matter in the form of clusters of galaxies — form in the expanding Universe , it is assumed that the dominant influence is a mass , or density perturbation . |
| 9 | International comparative studies of the income levels of specific social groups such as the elderly remain rare because of the difficulties involved in making comparisons between societies with widely differing responses to the issue of income maintenance in later life . |
| 10 | Dr Maqsako Shima first reported mineralogical studies of the Yamato specimens at a meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Davos , Switzerland , in August 1973 . |
| 11 | Our recent study of the forest chimpanzees of the Ivory Coast has revealed tool-use and hunting behaviour even more sophisticated than that found in chimpanzees elsewhere . |
| 12 | The summer nesting population of Truelove Lowland , on Devon Island , is a typical high tundra assembly ; for details of breeding and feeding , including special studies of the snow buntings , see Pattie ( 1977 ) . |