Example sentences of "were carried [adv prt] [prep] [art] [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 | Whippings in Sri Lanka were carried out with a cat-o-nine-tails and flayed the back of the prisoner , scarring him for life . |
| 7 | Instead , studies were carried out with the focus now on the listener rather than the speaker . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years . |
| 10 | In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed . |
| 11 | The Labour MP for Jarrow said investigations into alleged abuse of the postal system were carried out as a matter of routine . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ No fatigue tests were carried out on the B 707–300 series horizontal stabiliser structure prior to USA or UK certification . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages . |
| 20 | These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex . |
| 21 | All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | However , as the reader will see , few operations of this type were carried out by the SBS in the Mediterranean after 1943 . |
| 30 | 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 . |