Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] carry [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were carried out by candidates in examinations , what a boon it would be to those who have to mark the scripts ! |
| 2 | This was carried out with thoroughness , but without success , by the Missing Research and Enquiry Service , and in 1948 the case was closed . |
| 3 | This was carried out to the design of William Butterfield and completed in 1848 . |
| 4 | This was carried out over a three-week period using a mixture of interviews and questionnaires covering a representative sample of persons from the CSSU and the departments . |
| 5 | This was carried out on-line , although a similar method has been employed in an off-line study ( Bozinovic and Srihari , 1989 ) . |
| 6 | Rumour had it that this was carried out by national security forces ‘ in the interests of public peace and harmony ’ . |
| 7 | This was carried out in the form of a maze of plants surrounding Her Majesty 's Coat of Arms . |
| 8 | As for the doorstep survey , this was carried out in order to generalize about the speech of the city as a whole , and in this way to be able to describe modifications to the vernacular that might be of general import . |
| 9 | This was carried out with a sample of some 2,000 establishments in 1980 and in 1984 ( see , Daniel/Millward , 1983 ; Millward/Stevens , 1986 ) . |
| 10 | It was decided to remove the guns with their powder and shot to lighten the ship ; this was carried out on Sunday 's high tide . |
| 11 | This was carried out by Sachs ( 1967 ) and it compared recall of sentences which had just been heard with recall of sentences which had been heard earlier in a passage . |
| 12 | This was carried out at Smithfield . |
| 13 | For years this was carried out by the " vanners " ; men effecting a separation on special vanning shovels using a method perhaps best described as somewhat akin to panning for gold . |
| 14 | This was carried out through 1989–1991 and affected virtually everyone in the organisation . |
| 15 | So far as the throwing of silk into yarn was concerned , whether in water-powered mills or by hand , this was carried out by women and children . |
| 16 | This was carried out in two centres on an outpatient basis using local anaesthesia and intravenous sedation where indicated at one to four weekly intervals until obliteration of all varices had been achieved . |
| 17 | The purpose of Study 2 was to carry out a laboratory task which allowed measurement of feelings of risk and a controlled test of memory for driving situations . |
| 18 | Solid silver is extremely heavy , so these were carried on ceremonial occasions by huge men from a special clan on the Indian side of the border . |
| 19 | Where individual dwellings have intermediate floors , these were carried out in traditional timber joisted construction , the joists being hung from the new masonry cross-walls on joist-hangers . |
| 20 | Five of these were carried out altogether . |
| 21 | Servicing of steam locomotive No. 90 was carried out at the Severn Valley Railway Works at Bridgenorth where a complete new firebox and boiler was made and then shipped to Galway for installation . |
| 22 | Hybridisations resulting in the autoradiographs of Figures 1 and 5 were carried out in 3 saline sodium phosphate ( SSPE ) , 10% dextran sulphate , 0.5% sodium dodecyl sulphate ( SDS ) , Denhardt 's and 100 µg/ml sonicated salmon sperm DNA at 65°C overnight . |
| 23 | These features profoundly affected the shape and priorities of the new scheme , although not all were carried over into it . |
| 24 | Of our initial 20 rather withered carnations , 18 were carried off into the distance by bewildered or gracious lasses . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Stone of Destiny was in alien hands , but in other respects the coronation ceremony on 25 March 1306 was carried out according to tradition . |
| 27 | The first was carried out , the second was not , in spite of warnings from the engineers : ‘ The preliminary study has highlighted the high damage costs associated with flooding on rural and urban communities , and the very real possibility of more extensive and serious flooding of Perth occurring in the future . ’ |
| 28 | A review and analysis of SSAP 15 was carried out by a working party of the institute 's research committee following a request from the Accounting Standards Board . |
| 29 | As the police privately noted at the time , most of them showed substantial expertise and one in particular was carried out with the skill to be found only among persons such as highly trained army saboteurs . |
| 30 | For those authors completing theses before 1969 , for the most prolific authors , and for ‘ problematic ’ authors ( e.g. those whose citations contained some variations in forenames or initials , so that unambiguous attribution of authorship necessitated further investigation ) , manual searching of BIG was carried out , and for other authors GeoRef was searched online . |