Example sentences of "[adj] survey [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These surveys add data to those furnished by previous surveys carried out by the Preservation Division in recent years , that measured the brittle paper problem in the Library and the condition of particular areas of the special collections and manuscript collections . |
| 3 | The major impetus for this work have been the national surveys carried out by the Home Office , the British Crime Surveys of 1982 , 1984 and 1988 . |
| 4 | The regular surveys carried out by the British Antarctic Survey at its Halley Bay and Faraday stations show that two-thirds of the layer had been destroyed before the end of September . |
| 5 | Even in 1990 when the recession had started to bite deeply 46 per cent of employers in a major survey carried out by the Training Agency reported recruiting difficulties ( Guardian 14 September 1990 ) . |
| 6 | The closing date is November 22 , and the first survey picked out of the bag after that date will win . |
| 7 | An even more recent survey carried out by the Society for Companion Animal Studies , and based on interviews with 10,500 households , revealed a surprisingly high 70 per cent of the general population and 84 per cent of dog owners think that dogs help us relax and reduce stress . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Modern ’ , ‘ really attractive ’ , ‘ well-designed ’ , ‘ easy to use ’ ; these are some of the enthusiastic comments made by sixth-formers in a recent survey carried out by the MORI organisation , to discover what readers thought of the University 's newly-designed Prospectus . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And in Britain , the last survey carried out by the Sports Council revealed that up to 75 per cent of the population were doing very little at all to get fit . |