Example sentences of "study of the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ABOVE TOP Typology is the study of the development of artefacts of the same type to build up a dated sequence .
2 Observational and interview data or developmentally salient aspects of Unit life were collected as supplementary data during a study of the development of children in prison Mother and Baby Units .
3 Second , a study of the perceptions of students in schools of the value of studying Arabic in higher education .
4 Now that we have the outline of an approach to the study of the meanings of words , we can turn our attention to the task of providing a more exact characterisation of the linguistic units which will form the objects of our study .
5 From Bachelard and Canguilhem , Foucault derived his emphasis on the history of science as an epistemological study of the formation of concepts , a process of separation and discrimination which defines both the object and the problem that is being made intelligible .
6 An experimental study of the ability of subjects to influence their own dreams was conducted at David Foulkes 's laboratory .
7 Some of the main issues arising here can be illustrated further from the course taken by the historical study of Jesus through the century , and from the rise towards its close of quite new approaches to the study of the history of religions in general .
8 Professor N. Ambraseys was arguably the first to recognise the full implications of the study of the history of earthquakes to the science of tectonics .
9 High resolution n.m.r. has proved to be a particularly useful tool in the study of the microstructure of polymers in solution , where the extensive molecular motion reduces the effect of long range interactions and allows the short range effects to dominate .
10 Athelstan remembered what he had learnt from his study of the Index of Saints but decided not to confide in Sir John .
11 A study of the earnings of children in York in the 1970s compared with their fathers ' earnings in the 1950s found a coefficient of earnings of nearly 0.5 .
12 ( Has anyone made a comparative study of the spread of railways and the spread of adultery ?
13 This project completes the analysis and writing up of material collected in an ESRC financed social anthropological study of the effects of women 's entry into waged employment in the city of Calcutta , India which was carried out in 1981-82 .
14 Secondly , a disaggregated study of the effects of unions on wages , redundancies and labour force turnover is being undertaken using both industry and firm level data .
15 This brief report is based on a study of the response of boards to the materials and training provided .
16 Is there indeed no science to be found in the study of the phenomena of UFOs ?
17 Thus , Egenhofer and Frank ( 1988 ) suggested a way in which the WYSIWYG principle of ‘ what you see is what you get ’ could be extended to GIS and outlined the components of their own system which included a study of the selection of objects and areas , legends and query specification .
18 Pharmacology is the study of the interaction of drugs and living organisms .
19 I move on , twenty years , into the mid-seventies , to a study of the participation of women in their local trade union organisations .
20 We know in part of this intensive study of the work of anthropologists from Marx 's notes , published by L. Krader under the title The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx [ 1972 ] .
21 In this respect , the study of the properties of objects in the social sciences is quite dissimilar to equivalent studies in physics or chemistry , where statements about these properties take the form of law-like propositions .
22 Aetiology as the philosophical investigation of causality and aetiology as the study of the origin of diseases provides a link between philosophy and physiology .
23 Modern languages in higher education : a study of the experience of students and teachers
24 Based on the study of the systems of departments , agencies and Crown Corporations audited by the Auditor General , financial management and control in the Government of Canada is grossly inadequate .
25 Many physiologists believe that an exhaustive study of the types of stimuli that increase or decrease the discharge rates of different types of sensory system cell will provide us with a description of how that system works .
26 On the other hand , we should not underestimate our ancestors , or ‘ primitive ’ tribesmen of today : a study of the naming of birds in a part of New Guinea made recently demonstrates that their divisions and ours show an astonishing degree of similarity .
27 Like all the best work by social anthropologists it has at its core the very detailed study of the network of relationships operating within a single very small-scale community .
28 Natural language semantics can be defined as the study of the meaning of utterances , and to this end a number of semantic theories have been proposed .
29 Although a number of publications and theses have added greatly to our knowledge of the issue , none has provided a comprehensive study of the adoption of tariffs .
30 Braun , Glanzel and Schubert 1989b found , in their study of the validity of bibliometrics to assessments of British science , that
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