Example sentences of "carried out [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The latter carried out experiments based on six ‘ level ’ categories : 1 ) compendia , 2 ) light , popular , 3 ) serious popularized , 4 ) elementary , 5 ) standard ( authoritative works and standard factual presentations ) and 6 ) advanced .
2 There must have been something specially feline about that particular note , because Gautier carried out experiments to see if he could fool the cat , but she always responded with her critical paw precisely when the note reached high A.
3 John returned a few years later , but he was now an old man and the moving spirit seems to have been his daughter Virginia , who carried out experiments in the breeding of silkworms at Little Gidding for the benefit of the American colony .
4 If , you carried out experiments with plant or equipment the detailed readings you took must be retained in their original and dated form .
5 Huxtable also carried out experiments to test the possibilities of disposing of urban sewage by pumping it on to farm land .
6 He carried out experiments on the propagation of short and ultra-short radio waves , which were then thought to be unusable .
7 Two people have gone on trial after a raid on a laboratory which carried out experiments on pigs .
8 I carried out stone from the cave , and after many days ' hard work I had a large cave in the side of the hill .
9 it 's one of the sites where Professor Cary Cooper , a world authority on stress , carried out Britain 's biggest ever company wide stress study .
10 I carried out field research in both Zambia and Tanzania .
11 Kant then goes on to describe how Leibniz ( 1646–1716 ) , the great polymath , carried out field observations of caterpillars and similar creatures , being careful afterwards to return them to a suitable leaf out of harm 's way , ‘ so that it should not come to harm through any act of his .
12 Yesterday four Roman Catholic workmen were murdered by the UFF as they carried out renovation work on houses in Castlerock .
13 Gabriel carried out Rose 's instructions and kept the process of work going , ignoring the intense excitement of all the women .
14 He was intensely aware of the importance of these ecclesiastical duties , and he carried out consecrations , and gave advice or judgements on discipline as necessary .
15 As well , the MRC carried out studies of the bacteriology , drug mechanisms , and immunology of tuberculosis and the pharmacology of antituberculosis drugs , directed at preventing drug resistance and treating patients with resistant strains effectively , and also studied sociological , epidemiological , and community problems — including intensive work , lasting 40 years , on patient compliance in taking drugs , and the results achieved in service programmes .
16 By way of establishing the necessary animus Mr Watkinson on behalf of the appellant pointed out that both Mr Carey and the appellant had changed the locks of the premises and carried out works of repair and maintenance inside .
17 So , in 1940 Churchill and Roosevelt signed the ‘ lease-lend ’ agreement , whereby Britain supplied the inventions and the US carried out development and manufacture .
18 One-third also administered medicines to clients and 17 per cent said they carried out tasks which should have been done by nurses .
19 A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries .
20 Marine Mining ( Cornwall ) Ltd carried out trial working of placer tin deposits off the north Cornwall coast .
21 Before the advent of the computer , H. E. Palmer , Michael West and others carried out word frequency studies on a corpus of language data with a view to determining the content of language courses .
22 In 1982 and 1983 , the APU carried out surveys of standards in oracy among pupils of 11 and 15 .
23 Between 1856 and 1863 he carried out surveys of the coasts of British Columbia .
24 Guo and Bradshaw carried out analyses of the nutrient ( N , P and K ) and energy flow patterns within the village and have conducted a variety of experiments to see how these patterns can be modified to result in a greater retention of nutrients and a more efficient return of energy to the human population .
25 In the financial year 1984–5 the North-West Water Authority carried out capital-works dredging on 21 miles of river in its care .
26 Coetzee also carried out bombings of two ANC transit houses in Swaziland .
27 Clogau Gold Mines plc and a private venture at the Gwynffynydd Gold Mine carried out exploration and development work in the Dolgellau area of North Wales .
28 During the 1890s they carried out work on inductive telegraphy , which was particularly important for communication with lighthouses and lightships , and Preece was one of the members of the royal commission on electrical communication with lighthouses and light vessels .
29 ( There was one further point : Harper carried out work in good faith believing the car to be his ; because of this Bennett recovered a car worth more than it would otherwise have been .
30 Moreover , if the answer is knowledge of the patient over time , what of the 2.3% of general practitioners and 31.3% of specialists who carried out LAWER on patients whom they knew for less than one month ?
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