Example sentences of "[noun] were carry [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments .
2 Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start .
3 Major petrographical studies on the rocks of various parts of Scotland were carried out by the Petrographer in London .
4 While the Supreme Soviet was not sitting , its functions were carried out by the Praesidium , a committee of Supreme Soviet officials and other members .
5 The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia .
6 Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary .
7 Further extensive trials were carried out before the first Hip and Thigh Diet was published in 1988 .
8 However , as the reader will see , few operations of this type were carried out by the SBS in the Mediterranean after 1943 .
9 Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane .
10 Age is unlikely to have influenced the findings or the conclusions of our study , because all the tests and comparisons were carried out on the same group of patients .
11 The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century .
12 They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank .
13 There was no limitation on the period of service overseas that a man could agree to undertake , and the crown was relieved of the burden of administration : recruiting , mustering and paying the troops were carried out by the officials of the magnates who made the contracts .
14 At Pearl Harbor itself exactly at 0800hrs morning colours were carried out on the moored ships , the first wave of enemy aircraft was sighted but not suspected .
15 Commander David Tucker head of the anti-terrorist squad believes both attacks were carried out by the same IRA unit .
16 These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex .
17 One possible reason for the difference between Chapman 's and our results is that their experiments were all performed in the presence of 5 mM glutamine ( M Chapman , personal communication ) where our experiments were carried out in the absence of glutamine .
18 These experiments were carried out by the method reported by Huijghebaert and Hofmann .
19 Extensive geological and geophysical surveys were carried out over the next two years , and the governments negotiated with an international group of banks interested in financing the construction of the tunnel .
20 The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages .
21 But most cattle thefts were carried out in the interior of the Low Country , Kurunagala , and in the districts bordering these two areas , where they were organized by wealthy and powerful men .
22 Detailed observations were carried out on the behaviour of the students during the actual course , and both students and teachers were interviewed as to their feelings in participating in this form of instruction .
23 Instead , studies were carried out with the focus now on the listener rather than the speaker .
24 Several case studies were carried out in the 1970s , of which the Liverpool Inner Area Study ( 1975 ) is of particular interest .
25 These producers were carried out in a darkened room .
26 The tower was off limits , after all , and someone was just ensuring that the Baron 's orders were carried out to the letter .
27 On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days .
28 Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study .
29 Inspections were carried out by the Ceramic Industries Certification Scheme Ltd who are linked with the British Ceramic Research Association .
30 It is finally stated in the report that the police believed the rapes were carried out by the same man , who is described quite fully .
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