Example sentences of "were [adv] carry [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 For long periods in the past , however , towns and cities did not exist , and yet many , if not most , of the functions which major urban centres fulfil today were still carried out in the landscape .
2 Infections were also carried out in the presence of 100 µg/ml cycloheximide or 40 µg/ml cytosine arabinoside for 7 hr .
3 But attempts by Markovic to implement a tight monetary policy were undermined by the secret printing in January 1991 of dinars with a face value equivalent to US$1,600 million by the Serbian authorities ; similar printings without federal authorization were also carried out by the Croatian , Macedonian and Montenegran authorities [ see also pp. 37866-67 ] .
4 Major visitations were conscientiously carried out by the heralds or their deputes — assisted.by the sheriffs and their officers — for more than a hundred and forty years .
5 Where , for example , members of the patient 's social network were interviewed as part of the assessment process , these interviews were specifically carried out by the ASWs .
6 The nub of the problem was identified as the lack of attention in the planning process to the way in which abstract objectives of a plan were actually carried out in the designs .
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