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 From the fourteenth century onwards considerable building was carried out in the Gothic style .
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