Example sentences of "[pron] carried out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in some of my own research into theatre audiences , at a time when virtually nothing was known about who goes to the theatre , some of the first surveys I carried out were concerned with eliciting data on people 's age , education , social class , who they went with , how they heard about the play , and so on . |
| 2 | When I carried out a survey of undergraduates and their use of books at Sheffield University I needed a sample of all undergraduates in the university during the academic year of the study.8 It was quite a revelation , talking to the Assistant Registrar in charge of records , to discover how difficult it was to define a ‘ student ’ for my purposes . |
| 3 | In a research project I carried out into academic publishing a great deal of the work required me to interview very experienced and knowledgeable publishers and to ask questions which , inevitably , touched on financial matters . |
| 4 | For example , in a survey I carried out on the membership of the National Trust — one of the largest voluntary associations in Britain with over a million and a quarter members — it was decided that topics should include such things as how people came to join , how they felt about the payment of subscriptions , how much they read of the literature the Trust sent them , what their main interests in conservation were , how active a part they wanted to play in the work of the Trust , and so on . |
| 5 | A survey I carried out in Brighton last summer indicated that unemployed men report themselves to be much less satisfied with their lives than do employed men . |
| 6 | The taxman had his slice , I carried out further improvements on the house and , of course , I had to provide for Suzie and the children , Chloe and Clare , for two winters , with no other work . |
| 7 | I carried out field research in both Zambia and Tanzania . |
| 8 | When I carried out a second interview with the DGM in 1989 , the district was still arguing the case with the RHA for the £2.1 million ( then uplifted to £2.5 million ) to be made available . |
| 9 | While writing this book I carried out a personal survey of the whole sky , using the binoculars which I have listed on page 16 . |
| 10 | This issue of sexism has a direct relevance to the main topic of this book : a survey of housewives and their attitudes to housework which I carried out in London in 1971 . |
| 11 | The first is a transcript taken from some ethnographic research which I carried out into the culture of racism amongst young white men living on a large council estate in South London . |
| 12 | Although no oily film was apparent I carried out this procedure twice . |
| 13 | I carried out stone from the cave , and after many days ' hard work I had a large cave in the side of the hill . |
| 14 | The Kachins of North Burma , among whom I carried out much of my own fieldwork , were much inclined to rhetoric . |
| 15 | Since I carried out this survey , education has become a central issue in public debate , particularly as a result of the changes contained within the Education Reform Act . |
| 16 | The benefits of this route could be substantial : about half of the Currie High roll comes from the Baberton and Juniper Green area , and when I carried out a survey , among parents , of travel to the school from these areas last year , a substantial number of families were in favour of opening up this path . |
| 17 | Because the people of really did n't feel they 'd been consulted , I , I carried out a little survey of my own and got a very good response . |
| 18 | I carried out tests and after eight hours he said he wanted to go home . |
| 19 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 20 | It was initially for this reason that fieldwork in Andersonstown was delegated to one of the informants , while Harris himself carried out the Braniel study . |
| 21 | But Dr Neil Harris , of the European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment , which carried out the four-month study , said its conclusions , although serious , were not yet cause ‘ to walk around London with a hat on ’ . |
| 22 | In 1979 ECS obtained an injunction from the English High Court ( see pp. 82 — 4 ) and subsequently in 1982 , when the conduct complained of appeared to continue , ECS made a complaint to the Commission which carried out an on-the-spot investigation at Akzo 's premises in both the Netherlands and the UK . |
| 23 | The company which carried out the job last night refused to comment . |
| 24 | Moreover , in 2 Commando which carried out this raid , there was , in its commanding officer 's words ‘ an extra scruple of endurance ’ that turned the seemingly impossible into the possible . |
| 25 | The formula is derived from the review of RAWP , which carried out a detailed statistical regression analysis using ward based hospital utilisation data from six regions . |
| 26 | The result was that the all-union bodies which carried out these functions were seen as Russian bodies , and Russians took the blame for their shortcomings ; while Russia itself , one of the areas whose numbers had been increasing most rapidly before the revolution , was threatened with depopulation . |
| 27 | In 1931 he became manager and chief engineer of the traction department , which carried out many important railway electrification schemes , including those of the Southern Railway , New Zealand government railways , Great Indian Peninsular Railway , Danish state railways , and the Post Office electric railway in London . |
| 28 | The evidence from all three stages in the project points to a tendency for those boards which carried out training to concentrate on ‘ within-board ’ activities . |
| 29 | The Acts of Parliament which carried out the privatisations and established the powers of the regulatory agencies lay the various duties upon the Directors of the various industries and not upon the regulatory agencies as corporate bodies . |
| 30 | It was unclear , however , whether this decision would be binding on the military authorities which carried out the tests . |