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

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1 The reforms of Joseph II ( 1780–90 ) , which were carried through in the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment , included a secularisation of education and the recognition of the rights of the Slav subjects of the Empire to instruct in their own language .
2 Besides a number of activities which took place at a regional level , many more were carried on throughout the year by its corporate and personal members .
3 It is likely the alterations were carried out towards the end of a relatively prosperous period , before a collapse in trade , between 1810 and 1820 .
4 Emergency repairs were carried out to the hotel and houses , many of which had damaged roofs and broken windows , throughout yesterday .
5 The tower was off limits , after all , and someone was just ensuring that the Baron 's orders were carried out to the letter .
6 Instead , studies were carried out with the focus now on the listener rather than the speaker .
7 Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years .
8 In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed .
9 On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days .
10 Detailed observations were carried out on the behaviour of the students during the actual course , and both students and teachers were interviewed as to their feelings in participating in this form of instruction .
11 ‘ No fatigue tests were carried out on the B 707–300 series horizontal stabiliser structure prior to USA or UK certification .
12 Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start .
13 In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals .
14 The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages .
15 These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex .
16 All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name .
17 Our case studies of casual working were carried out in the hotels and catering industry where a large proportion of the casual labour force is to be found .
18 But most cattle thefts were carried out in the interior of the Low Country , Kurunagala , and in the districts bordering these two areas , where they were organized by wealthy and powerful men .
19 Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary .
20 One possible reason for the difference between Chapman 's and our results is that their experiments were all performed in the presence of 5 mM glutamine ( M Chapman , personal communication ) where our experiments were carried out in the absence of glutamine .
21 Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth .
22 However , as the reader will see , few operations of this type were carried out by the SBS in the Mediterranean after 1943 .
23 Under working practices at the time , junctions so approved could be put into full operation before final safety checks were carried out by the inspectorate .
24 By Brig Scott 's account , " as far as I could see , during the next twenty four hours , all the arrangements in connection with the surrender and evacuation were carried out by the Yugoslavs speedily and efficiently " .
25 Unsafe act audits were carried out by the management , by the weekly staff and by the contractors .
26 Major petrographical studies on the rocks of various parts of Scotland were carried out by the Petrographer in London .
27 Other such developments were carried out by the Ashworth brothers at Bank Top , Egerton and New Eagley , where estates were provided with schools , libraries and chapels , and each house had its own garden and piped water .
28 These experiments were carried out by the method reported by Huijghebaert and Hofmann .
29 While the Supreme Soviet was not sitting , its functions were carried out by the Praesidium , a committee of Supreme Soviet officials and other members .
30 It was designed as a more effective replacement for the Police Complaints Board ( PCB ) which the public appeared to have lost faith in due to the fact that few complaints were ever substantiated , and that all investigations were carried out by the police themselves .
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