Example sentences of "was carried [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not involved in any way with the mining that was carried on in the surrounding area , but he was greatly affected by the frequent serious and often fatal accidents suffered by the miners through premature blasting explosions . |
| 2 | The final honing was carried out in the usual fashion , using slipstones and strop . |
| 3 | Also in deference to their preferences , the building was carried out in the Early English Gothic style , its structural brickwork being faced externally with Kentish ragstone dressed with Bath stone at corners and door and window openings . |
| 4 | The endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was carried out in the standard manner using an Olympus or Pentax sideviewing endoscope under antibiotic cover . |
| 5 | Nearly all research in communist East Germany was carried out in the 57 institutes of the Academy of Sciences , with universities being given little chance to conduct serious research . |
| 6 | From the fourteenth century onwards considerable building was carried out in the Gothic style . |
| 7 | Haider , in office since 1989 [ see pp. 37688 ; 36596 ] , had caused a furore by declaring on June 13 during a Landtag ( provincial parliament ) debate that " an orderly employment policy was carried out in the Third Reich , which the government in Vienna can not manage " . |
| 8 | The drive against corporations was carried out in the same spirit ; the only reason why the Whigs and Nonconformists had grown so influential in corporation politics was because the Corporation Act of 1661 had not been properly enforced . |