Example sentences of "were carry [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex . |
| 13 | All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Unsafe act audits were carried out by the management , by the weekly staff and by the contractors . |
| 18 | Major petrographical studies on the rocks of various parts of Scotland were carried out by the Petrographer in London . |
| 19 | These experiments were carried out by the method reported by Huijghebaert and Hofmann . |
| 20 | While the Supreme Soviet was not sitting , its functions were carried out by the Praesidium , a committee of Supreme Soviet officials and other members . |
| 21 | The lowliest of railway jobs were carried out by the mountain Indians or the men of slightly mixed blood , the cholos . |
| 22 | Measurements were carried out after the intake of 19.8 g psyllium or placebo in a randomised , crossover , double blind trial . |
| 23 | The wounded who were carried in from the attack on the Rebecca lay in the shade under the trees while their hurts were being dressed . |
| 24 | Of our initial 20 rather withered carnations , 18 were carried off into the distance by bewildered or gracious lasses . |
| 25 | In the ‘ rotunda ’ of Chicago Central of 1892–3 the main ribs of the vault were carried down to the floor . |
| 26 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |