Example sentences of "tests [was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French doctors started me on a long-term course of antibiotics that are commonly used in France to fight toxoplasmosis and my blood tests were stepped up to once a week . ’ |
| 2 | If fluid from the prostate and a specimen of the ejaculate are also examined , however , the diagnosis rate increases markedly , and over 70 per cent of male contacts were shown to be harbouring the organism in one series where these exhaustive tests were carried out . |
| 3 | The following week tests were carried out and I went with Dad to watch the Brigade endeavouring to pump water to the roof of Blooms the Drapers on The Canal — possibly the City 's tallest building . |
| 4 | For example , the uninformed reader will almost certainly conclude that Herbert Needleman 's neuropsychological tests were carried out on not just 158 children but on all 2000 children in the study . |
| 5 | Psychometric tests were carried out over six months . |
| 6 | The aircraft was designated the W-3 and initial flight tests were carried out at Abbotsinch near Glasgow on July 9 , 1936 . |
| 7 | ‘ We are confident the tests were carried out correctly . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ No fatigue tests were carried out on the B 707–300 series horizontal stabiliser structure prior to USA or UK certification . |
| 9 | During the first visit , when Graham was just 13 months old , countless tests were carried out to try to find the cause of the illness . |
| 10 | To assess Mr Reynolds ' fitness , various observations ( temperature , pulse , respirations , weight , urine tests ) and routine blood tests were carried out and checked to ensure that the results were within normal limits . |
| 11 | The statistical test which measures the strength of the relationship between paired sets of observations of this kind is a correlation test , and a large number of these tests were carried out to investigate the relationship ( L. Milroy 1980 : 149–166 ; Fasold 1984 , chapter 4 ) . |
| 12 | The tests were carried out by Coopers and Lybrand who apparently found that Borland Quattro Pro for Windows outscored both Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 in 6 out of 10 categories . |
| 13 | The levels were then topped up to around 20 metres and final tests were carried out before being handed back to operations . |
| 14 | Some preliminary tests were carried out to determine the contribution of each light alone , and it was discovered that ‘ C ’ gave approximately half the incident light . |
| 15 | Some tests were carried out to examine the accuracy of definition of the field of view of the radiometer . |
| 16 | Surveys carried out by the optical profession show that after an initial drop , 12.43 million sight tests were carried out in the financial year ending 1991 . |
| 17 | Today Mark joined his colleagues for a training session in Armagh during which fitness tests were carried out on Mark and John Grimley , Ciaran McGurk and Gerard Houlahan . |
| 18 | Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth . |
| 19 | Therefore , in order to minimise the risk of falsely rejecting an existing difference , p values less than 0.05 were considered as significant although multiple tests were carried out on the same data . |
| 20 | The Pyloriset Latex ( Orion Diagnostica , Finland ) and the Helico-G ( Porton Cambridge , Maidenhead , UK ) tests were carried out according to the manufacturers 's instructions and ad recently described . |
| 21 | Tests were carried out but it was decided to operate before the results of the tests were known . |
| 22 | The tests were carried out as part of ICI 's extensive research programme into alternatives to CFCs . |
| 23 | The tests were carried out some years previously under Soviet rule . |
| 24 | 6,850 tests were carried out to deliberately give animals cancer . |
| 25 | Murder squad detectives , led by Detective Superintendent Stan Fletcher , sealed off the area while forensic tests were carried out . |
| 26 | A series of tests was carried out among the prostitutes who came voluntarily to venereal-disease clinics in late 1989 . |