Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Doctors said the biopsy was carried out in a different part of the brain to where the rupture of the aneurysm occurred and was not responsible for the death .
2 If a deal was hammered out with the banks , an accompanying rights issue to raise up to £400m from existing private shareholders was likely next spring .
3 An experiment was carried out with a mixed age group of macaques .
4 This experiment was carried out in a dedicated growth room with walls well masked with charcoal-grey cartridge paper .
5 At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site .
6 The first ring was thrown out of a window after a row .
7 As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout .
8 But the recommendation was thrown out by an overwhelming majority , with only Coun Orwig and education committee chairman , Coun Handel Morgan , voting to close the three schools .
9 The Mujaheddin claimed that the murder was carried out by the Iranian embassy in Switzerland on the orders of the then Iranian President Khamenei .
10 ‘ Every seat was sold out for every performance when we did it last year . ’
11 This optimism was borne out of a confidence in the ability of the social sciences to provide the basis for social policies ; in the State to administer those policies ; in the superiority of middle-class culture ; and in psycho-medicine to understand and explain individual behaviour .
12 In June the facade was blown out of the Iraqi Planning Ministry building by what seems to have been a car bomb , although it is not clear whether this was the result of direct Iranian action or that of some domestic opposition group .
13 Morrison , whose girlfriend was travelling out for the Hong Kong tournament , reckoned that he sustained the injury when he turned quickly during Scotland 's opening tie against Australian Capital Territory in Canberra last week .
14 The parkland was laid out with a smooth lawn .
15 Research was carried out on the stability of such ferries , which took some time .
16 The research was carried out for a doctoral dissertation on the princely sum of £410 per annum ( this was the ‘ married woman 's ’ rate of postgraduate grant at the time , £120 lower than the full grant ) .
17 Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings .
18 The journal contains material of interest to historians concerned with late colonial Nigeria , and with the developments among the Nupe people and their neighbours at this time ; and material which illuminates how one body of anthropological field research was carried out against the background of colonial administration .
19 The above extract was taken out of the ‘ Welsh Marches ’ section .
20 When the marriage of Henry and Constance was solemnised on 27th January 1186 , the ceremony was carried out by the Patriarch of Aquileia , who also crowned Henry as King of Italy .
21 A study was carried out of the behaviour of …
22 The initial study was carried out as the practical project for my MSc course in 1987 .
23 But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study .
24 A study was carried out in a Bedfordshire village , i.e. a semi-rural environment , of predation by domestic cats over a one-year period and the results were published in a zoological journal in 1987 .
25 This study was carried out in a range of locations and tenures , and tested people 's awareness of energy saving products , conservation measures , and novel types of energy technology using ambient energy ( eg solar collectors ) , all rated against their costs of installation , running and maintenance .
26 The study was carried out in the West Berkshire and the Basingstoke and North Hampshire District Health Authorities .
27 The volunteers fasted overnight , or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon .
28 The volunteers fasted overnight or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon .
29 The car was hauled out of the river and Tania 's body was discovered inside .
30 From there I looked back to see Xanthe begin to talk to Mrs Young , at first slowly , with brakes on , and then faster and faster , until all the unhappiness was pouring out like a flood .
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