Example sentences of "was [adv] carried [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This was effectively carried through by the strong Liberal government elected in 1906 in the Trade Disputes Act of that year . |
| 4 | The battle for political supremacy was thus carried over to the Congress itself . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A 61-year-old man was also carried out of the block of bedsits in Fort Street , New Brighton , after being overcome by smoke . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Experimental work on pupil-created data files was also carried out in the 1983-4 session in a small research project . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |