Example sentences of "were carried [adv prt] by the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , as the reader will see , few operations of this type were carried out by the SBS in the Mediterranean after 1943 .
2 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 .
3 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 " .
4 Unsafe act audits were carried out by the management , by the weekly staff and by the contractors .
5 Major petrographical studies on the rocks of various parts of Scotland were carried out by the Petrographer in London .
6 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 .
7 These experiments were carried out by the method reported by Huijghebaert and Hofmann .
8 While the Supreme Soviet was not sitting , its functions were carried out by the Praesidium , a committee of Supreme Soviet officials and other members .
9 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 .
10 he had hard all about the long sorties that were carried out by the Washingtons , so he was quite chuffed that his trip was for only three hours .
11 The lowliest of railway jobs were carried out by the mountain Indians or the men of slightly mixed blood , the cholos .
12 There was no limitation on the period of service overseas that a man could agree to undertake , and the crown was relieved of the burden of administration : recruiting , mustering and paying the troops were carried out by the officials of the magnates who made the contracts .
13 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 .
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