Example sentences of "was [adv] carry [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cutting was mostly carried out with a scythe although a few were able to hire machinery for the purpose . |
| 2 | Opposition critics claimed that since the practice of making people " disappear " was mostly carried out by the military , the new law effectively granted it immunity from future prosecution and the power to abduct anyone with impunity . |
| 3 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 4 | This was effectively carried through by the strong Liberal government elected in 1906 in the Trade Disputes Act of that year . |
| 5 | If this process was properly carried out as a matter of public law , then the consequential private law right of the plaintiff was simply a right to the accommodation which the council had decided to be suitable . |
| 6 | Oliver was gently carried in to a bed , and received more care and kindness than he had ever had in his life . |
| 7 | He said their figures applied to five other water authorities as well as AW , and said disconnection was only carried out as a last resort , when all other methods failed . |
| 8 | The battle for political supremacy was thus carried over to the Congress itself . |
| 9 | The nuclear industry asked why all this was necessary when monitoring was already carried out by the CEGB itself , as well as by government departments . |
| 10 | The reform was not carried through in the House but the phrenologists urged or reformers elsewhere and , indirectly , their enthusiasm led on to William Forster 's Education Bill of 1870 which established in Britain the system of elementary schools for all . |
| 11 | Consequently exchange rate adjustment to long-run changes in a country 's competitive position was not carried out in the manner visualized by the founding fathers of the system . |
| 12 | In addition , cardiac surgery was not carried out in the two districts studied . |
| 13 | Finally , it is no use trying to escape by saying that ancient trade was not carried out by the nationals of ancient states but by non-citizens , so the Megarian decree can not have injured Megarian trade : the generalization about ancient trade should be corrected to read ‘ ancient Athenian trade ’ , which is what nearly all our information is about . |
| 14 | Owing to shortage of medical staff , the post-mortem was not carried out until the following morning . |
| 15 | Daily operation was usually carried out by a miller who , like a number of other employees , was actually paid a salary and granted a number of other privileges . |
| 16 | She dumped the bouquets she was still carrying on to the passenger-seat . |
| 17 | A 61-year-old man was also carried out of the block of bedsits in Fort Street , New Brighton , after being overcome by smoke . |
| 18 | A standard , detailed clinical assessment was also carried out on a subsample of these children . |
| 19 | Further work was also carried out on the International City Project , a long-term perspective for the development of Glasgow which has attracted interest from the highest levels in Government . |
| 20 | Experimental work on pupil-created data files was also carried out in the 1983-4 session in a small research project . |
| 21 | The instances of large numbers of birds having been shot or trapped for food , or rare specimens collected , is well documented , and in Sussex was often carried out on a very considerable scale . |
| 22 | Notable areas include Snailbeach in West Shropshire , some Pennine lead mines where smelting was often carried out on an adjacent hill ( ‘ Bole hill ’ ) and South-west England . |
| 23 | In brief , requisitioning was unpopular , not least since it was often carried out in the period between spring and autumn when trading and fishing conditions might normally be expected to be better than at other times of the year . |
| 24 | But at the end of the thirteenth century Pope Boniface VIII tried to condemn the practice , especially as it was sometimes carried out in the side chapels of churches , which were deemed appropriate ‘ kitchens ’ . |
| 25 | The order was then carried out by a seaman , and an seven survivors were killed . |
| 26 | Smith was virtually carried off with an ankle injury , Mardenborough has a knee problem and Cusack had stitches for a facial injury . |
| 27 | Whilst ICL has duly announced that it is to support Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix MPX for multi-processing , Open Desktop environment and the SCO communications suite on its Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers , the OfficePower-on-SCO validation work — see above — was actually carried out on an Apricot Computers Ltd box . |