Example sentences of "studies which have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been a large number of studies which have sought to establish the validity and accuracy of replies to this sort of question . |
| 2 | Instead course development has been informed by a continuing series of evaluation studies which have sought to assist in establishing priorities and in discriminating between alternative developmental paths . |
| 3 | Studies which have observed children 's independent attempts at writing stress the active role children take in decoding and recreating the adult writing system . |
| 4 | There have been only a small number of studies which have applied these techniques to bilingual data , for example : Auer 1981 , 1984a , 1984b ; Auer and Di Luzio 1983a , 1983b ; Tate 1984 ; Sebba and Wootton 1984 ; Milroy and Li Wei ( forthcoming ) . |
| 5 | The survey , costing £85,000 and taking up to two years to complete , has been prompted by American studies which have led to calls for the banning of some chemicals . |
| 6 | Studies which have examined the ability of older people to undertake activities of daily living ( adl ) usually take one of two main approaches . |
| 7 | An appreciation of these difficulties is important when interpreting the results of studies which have examined factors potentially involved in genetic susceptibility to alcoholic liver disease . |
| 8 | This chapter begins by examining some major fieldwork problems associated with the study of syntactic variation , going on to review in 7.3 some studies which have tackled them by means of various elicitation techniques . |
| 9 | There are number of different ways in which more naturalistic studies have been conducted ranging from laboratory studies using slides and films to field studies which have recorded people 's memories for staged or naturally occurring arousing events . |
| 10 | There are few longitudinal studies which have published data describing changes in the ability to undertake specific adl activities over time . |
| 11 | The Bureau has undertaken several studies which have combined systematic econometric testing with economic analysis of particular equations or sectors of the models , and has been able to reconcile and resolve many of the differences in treatment between the models , in turn translating this resolution into its impact on full model properties . |
| 12 | It is interesting to compare the methodology of this experiment with that of recent studies which have used more natural discourse . |
| 13 | Fortunately there have been a large number of more recent studies which have used more meaningful manipulations of arousal . |
| 14 | This may be also true of studies which have used a series of slides as the arousing stimuli rather than a single one . |
| 15 | In Hewitt ( 1986 ) we have an account in some detail of the processes by which white children acquire Creole by socialisation with black peers , but so far there have been no studies which have focused on how the black children acquire Creole in the first place . |
| 16 | Mr Hadley , who teaches at the Grants School of Wine , cites studies which have found that compared with lifelong abstainers , moderate drinkers show a 26 per cent reduction in the incidence of heart trouble . |
| 17 | This ties in with earlier studies which have found that two-day-old infants who are considered attractive are held closer and spoken to more than unattractive babies . |
| 18 | Our data support the results of other studies which have found the erythrocyte sedimentation rate to be of very limited value . |
| 19 | Thirdly , there have been a number of studies which have found abnormal levels of arousal and an inability to maintain attention among people with schizophrenia . |
| 20 | This suggested association between lipid and lipoprotein levels and enhanced platelet function in diabetes is supported by many studies which have described abnormal platelet function in hyperlipidaemic non-diabetic subjects ( Nordoy & Rodset , 1971 ; Carvalho et al , 1974 ; Shattil et al , 1977 ; Colman , 1978 ; Joist et al , 1979 ; Tremoli et al , 1979 ) which have measured in vitro platelet aggregation , platelet factor 4 , plasma antiheparin activity and a bleeding-time test . |
| 21 | This is consistent with previous studies which have shown that more than 90% of gastrin in serum consists of G17 and G34 in both duodenal ulcer patients and healthy volunteers . |
| 22 | It is perhaps particularly ironic that as yet we have no studies which have attempted to evaluate interventions from the point of view of the children themselves . |
| 23 | This is consistent with several earlier studies which have attempted to explain socioeconomic differences in morbidity and mortality by differences among subjects in known or suspected risk factors . |
| 24 | Section 7.4 reviews some quantitative studies which have attempted to take over directly from phonology the notion of the semantically neutral variable , and in subsequent sections analyses of variation which explicitly take into account semantic and discourse factors are discussed . |
| 25 | Most studies which have attempted to establish laws about reaction time have assumed that stages ( a ) and ( c ) are relatively short and consider that effectively all the time is taken up by central processes . |
| 26 | It is no surprise to realise that those studies which have investigated the problem of ‘ bed blocking ’ have concentrated upon older hospital patients ; studies have not researched this topic for younger people as their right to an acute hospital bed appears to go unquestioned . |
| 27 | Recent studies which have looked at this issue report that people talk in terms of some blend of love and duty , affection and obligation ( Ungerson , 1987 ; Lewis and Meredith , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | There have been no recent studies which have looked at patterns of exchange between kin as their central focus , but relevant data can be gleaned from a number of studies . |
| 29 | All of the studies which have looked at the effect of maturity on mispricings ( Bhatt and Cakici , 1990 ; Klemkosky and Lee , 1991 ; MacKinlay and Ramaswamy , 1988 ; Twite , 1991a ; Strickland and Xu , 1992 ; Yadav and Pope , 1990 ; 1992b ) have found that mispricings tend to decline in size and frequency as delivery approaches . |
| 30 | There do not appear to have been any empirical studies which have looked for an increase in the amount of information reflected in share prices as a result of the commencement of trading in index futures ( except in so far as volatility reflects information ; see Chapter 13 ) . |