Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] carry [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The workers were members of the Federation of Free Trade Unions , and were carrying out their July strike threat [ see p. 39021 ] , demanding rights and recognition equal to those enjoyed by former communist trade unions , in addition to improvements in pay and conditions . |
| 2 | They did not believe us , and were carried on to Banbury . |
| 3 | Strong men fainted and were carried off by weak men … |
| 4 | The tests were based on European Standards , adapted to conditions in the home , and were carried out on Maples ' 100% nylon twist-pile carpet and on tiled flooring . |
| 5 | Of 22 chosen flights , I failed to get on only six and was carried on one of the next two flights . |
| 6 | A vote was taken on this and was carried on a decisive majority . |
| 7 | 1836 It was moved that the dinner which had been assessed on the public be discontinued and was carried on the casting vote of the Chairman . |
| 8 | Again the work was completed in Oxford , and was carried through by the leadership of a man who made no mistakes in seeking chemical collaboration or in letting matters drop for lack of it . |
| 9 | Dismantling and removal took six months and was carried out by three men . |
| 10 | This was almost his last work and was carried out whilst he was the guest of an English merchant , Thomas Poyntz , in the shelter of the English house at Antwerp , where the English merchants were accorded privileges of freedom from arrest on mere suspicion , and from imprisonment without trial . |
| 11 | It was about their last overall assertion of authority , and was carried out smoothly and simultaneously so that the Indonesians were unable to reply . |
| 12 | One piece of research looked specifically at the civil service and was carried out by Livingstone and Wilkie ( 1981 ) . |
| 13 | The percutaneous extraction of gall stones was first described in 1985 , for the treatment of high risk patients with acute cholecystitis , and was carried out in up to five stages using a transhepatic tract . |
| 14 | This reports on research commissioned by the DoE on the relationship between development plans , development control , and appeals , and was carried out by Davies , Edwards , and Rowley . |
| 15 | The established church believed teetotalism was taking the place of God and was carried out in an un-Christian spirit . |
| 16 | Bodin 's pass back was under-hit , Duffield and Gittens seized on it and , while Gittins did what Duffield was intending , sliding the ball under the advancing Digby , Duffield stayed down and was carried off with a broken leg . |
| 17 | He then said ‘ God bless ! ’ to her , and was carried off into the night . |
| 18 | She had drawn the curtains at the house the previous evening and was carrying out a routine check at about 7.30 am when she saw the smashed back porch . |
| 19 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |
| 20 | He was n't , so he did n't go right down , but was carried along under water . |