Example sentences of "[adj] studies have " in BNC.

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1 While most all-night recording experiments are over brief periods ( of up to a week ) , some very extended studies have been done , and there is no evidence that the patterns of sleep we observe over short periods ( after the first night ) are in any way peculiar to the unfamiliarity of the laboratory environment .
2 Other centres for European and German Studies have been established at Georgetown University , and the University of California , Berkeley .
3 First , a number of historical studies have shown that the nuclear family was common before the industrial revolution , if only because people did not live long enough for older relatives to live near or with their younger kin .
4 Results from Hungary indicated that vaccines were exposed to heat during transport and that facilities for refrigeration were inadequate , and recent British studies have shown that the storage of vaccines is inadequate in general practices and health authority premises .
5 Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ .
6 Very few studies have challenged the generally accepted view that ‘ canteen culture ’ is influential in determining ordinary policemen and women 's common-sense conceptions of their work ( for an exception see Fielding 1988a , b ) .
7 Very few studies have sought to position shoplifting within a broader social and political sphere , where women in particular are vulnerable to a consumer fetishism that drives them to lawbreaking …
8 Very few studies have shown any evidence that extraterrestrials have ever visited the Earth , As always , however , there is an exception .
9 The impact of any examination of variation between brooches in early Anglo-Saxon England is lessened by the near-absence of moulds , and few studies have been made .
10 Only a few studies have included segregation analysis of family data on chronic inflammatory bowel disease .
11 Few studies have considered the prevalence of conditions such as mania and schizophrenia amongst the older age groups .
12 As the next sections scan the literature , it is important to remember how few studies have given Black as well as white parents an opportunity to tell researchers about the realities of their lives .
13 Since few studies have examined the efficacy and safety of combining salmeterol and salbutamol we examined the effects of adding salbutamol to salmeterol on the airway response and potential side effects in patients with mild asthma .
14 In few studies have the higher moments been used to advantage , the principal exception being that of Sly ( 1977 , 1978 ) who used the skewness — kurtosis interrelationships to recognize differing environmental energy levels in deposits of the Great Lakes ( Fig. 3.1() ) .
15 While much existing work on the home concentrates on the social relations and processes affecting people and households , few studies have examined how these broad constraints and relationships shape people 's lives , biographies or life courses .
16 Very few studies have evaluated the serological tests described in our study .
17 Despite the increasingly widespread use of oesophageal manometry , few studies have assessed its benefit to patient management .
18 Few studies have been carried out assessing the effect of vitamin supplementation on adenomatous polyps or colorectal cancer .
19 Few studies have looked specifically at the elderly .
20 Few studies have tried to answer the question of whether clinical and demographic criteria can help to distinguish patients with gastrooesophageal symptoms from patients complicated with Barrett 's oesophagus .
21 Endoscopic ultrasound has been considered the best procedure for assessing the preoperative staging of oesophageal carcinoma but few studies have considered its efficacy in evaluating the response to chemo or radiotherapy .
22 Few studies have attempted to study the issues from the point of view of the historian .
23 Acupuncture : ‘ Claims … are not based on the results of well performed clinical trials although some studies have shown a small but temporary improvement in wheeziness . ’
24 Some studies have been made on the timing of decisions to relegate material to remote storage in universities ( see Chapter 11 ) and on the relation between purchase and borrowing through interloans schemes ( see Chapter 13 ) .
25 With regard to HDL subfractions in insulin-dependent diabetics , data are conflicting but some studies have demonstrated a significant increase in HDL3 in males but not in females ( Mattock et al , 1980 ) .
26 Some studies have demonstrated no deficiency in lipoprotein lipase activity ( Jones et al , 1966 ; Nikkila & Hormila , 1978 ) , while others have suggested that there may be a relative deficiency of activity on prolonged stimulation with heparin infusion ( Brunzell et al , 1973 ) .
27 Some studies have already been undertaken ( Drummond , Teeling Smith & Wells , 1988 ) and others are in progress .
28 Certainly , some studies have shown that those with serious allergic disorders , such as asthma , tend to have more emotional and social problems .
29 Some studies have shown that the Pill decreases antibody production slightly , and others have shown more allergies , infections and autoimmune diseases among Pill-takers .
30 Some studies have made unfavourable comparisons between the going concern qualification 's predictive ability and failure prediction models based on financial ratios or other publicly available information .
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