Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] out [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some tests were carried out to examine the accuracy of definition of the field of view of the radiometer . |
| 2 | In the adjoining two storey block nominal alterations were carried out to improve the Ground Floor Art Department , and substantial upgrading of the Kitchen was undertaken to cater for the increased requirements , involving replacement of all catering equipment and servery counters , improved washing-up facilities and new tiled floor and wall finishes . |
| 3 | Urgent repairs were carried out to secure the roof but the parish council has accepted the architect 's recommendation that nobody should be allowed into the building during severe weather . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Experiments were carried out to determine the best formula to use for scoring the possible transitions in a text of 372 words derived from the Malhotra corpus ( Malhotra , 1975 ) , a corpus traditionally considered to be syntactically difficult to process . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After 10 days of gun battles , Federal troops were called out to quell the violence . |
| 8 | The last we hear from Roslavl' on taxes is in May , when fifty-eight of the seventy-eight soldiers requested from the town garrison were sent out to collect the potato tax in kind . |
| 9 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 10 | A hundred tapes and more than 800 workbooks were sent out to cover the 300-plus employees in company-owned stores . |
| 11 | With the law being openly flouted and the king 's attempts to change the kirk being thwarted , troops of Dragoons were sent out to patrol the countryside , to discourage the holding of conventicles and apprehend transgressors . |
| 12 | The radioallergosorbent test ( RAST ) was carried out to detect the circulating cow 's milk specific IgE antibodies , and also the serum total IgE values were measured before starting the challenge . |
| 13 | Lord Brandon stated that an operation or treatment would be in the patient 's best interests if it was carried out to save the patient 's life , ensure improvement , or prevent physical or mental deterioration . |
| 14 | The 3 expert systems that had been developed were made available to the shop floor , where an 11-month trial was carried out to compare the efficiency of diagnosticians working with and without the expert system aid . |
| 15 | This study was carried out to compare the serum concentrations of laminin in patients with cirrhosis with comprehensive clinical and laboratory tests in each patient to identify the factors associated with the increase of this glycoprotein . |
| 16 | A pilot study was carried out to test the hypothesis that British trained doctors with foreign sounding names were less likely to be shortlisted . |
| 17 | This study was carried out to examine the two decade trends in the incidence and death from pancreatitis , and to evaluate the relations between the occurrence of pancreatitis and alcohol consumption , liver cirrhosis , and gall stone disease in Finland . |
| 18 | Subsequently , a three-way analysis of variance was carried out to investigate the relationship between setting , sex and class of family background . |
| 19 | The present research was carried out to investigate the decay of short-term memory and show that rehearsal of an item increases the likelihood of its recall . |
| 20 | This chapter describes the research project that was carried out to develop the method . |
| 21 | This study was carried out to determine the number of haemophilic patients seropositive for HIV antibodies and the mortality from HIV infection and to confirm that young children were not being exposed to the virus . |
| 22 | The Fire Brigade 's Chemical Unit was called out to identify the substances . |
| 23 | After less than a month with Tito 's partisans , Brig Fitzroy MacLean was brought out to write the ‘ blockbuster ’ report in which he claimed that Tito was the most important force , holding down 14 German divisions . |
| 24 | The C[atholic] C[urate] was sent out to patrol the roads and anybody found or seen on the roads had to give their names . |
| 25 | The court heard that when the mistake was discovered , an urgent memo was sent out to correct the description . |
| 26 | A long list of criteria was trundled out to justify the eminent reasonableness of their wage claims : their members had fallen behind in the league table of wage differentials ; the cost of living had increased ; productivity had risen ; firms ' profits were high and their members were entitled to their ‘ fair ’ share . |