Example sentences of "were carry out [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Emergency repairs were carried out to the hotel and houses , many of which had damaged roofs and broken windows , throughout yesterday .
3 The tower was off limits , after all , and someone was just ensuring that the Baron 's orders were carried out to the letter .
4 Whippings in Sri Lanka were carried out with a cat-o-nine-tails and flayed the back of the prisoner , scarring him for life .
5 Instead , studies were carried out with the focus now on the listener rather than the speaker .
6 Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane .
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 The Labour MP for Jarrow said investigations into alleged abuse of the postal system were carried out as a matter of routine .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 ‘ No fatigue tests were carried out on the B 707–300 series horizontal stabiliser structure prior to USA or UK certification .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments .
16 The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia .
17 The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages .
18 These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex .
19 All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary .
23 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 .
24 Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth .
25 Data recording and assessment of results were carried out by a member of the unit who did not participate in endoscopic treatment or looked after the patients .
26 In Belfast , the first three of these ( in the inner-city areas ) were carried out by an outsider to Northern Ireland ( myself ) who as a consequence was not assigned a role in relation to local ethnic categories .
27 However , as the reader will see , few operations of this type were carried out by the SBS in the Mediterranean after 1943 .
28 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 .
29 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 " .
30 Unsafe act audits were carried out by the management , by the weekly staff and by the contractors .
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