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

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1 The answers to these questions are discovered from the diagram ( given certain simple diagrammatic transformations carried out by the system , which are structurally analogous to changes that would happen in the real world ) , rather than being computed in terms of abstract mathematical equations and specific numerical values .
2 The action follows detailed investigations carried out by the board last month .
3 Of the 49 visits carried out during the year ( 42 routine , seven investigative ) , four were satisfactory , 13 reasonable , 25 not satisfactory and seven unacceptable .
4 In a recent study of British libraries carried out by the Graphic Information Research Unit at the Royal College of Art for the British Library ( 1977 ) , it was found that ‘ the general standard of graphics was poor … signs in particular tended to vary in design and construction ’ .
5 However , obvious explanations are not always correct , and some studies carried out during the past couple of decades seem to suggest that , instead , we are born with an inherited knowledge of the signals that can indicate danger .
6 For those who prefer scientific evidence for the effects of essential oils on the mind , let me draw your attention to some experiments carried out in the last ten years by John Steele ( an American research worker ) and Maxwell Cade , a British biophysicist .
7 Mr Rawley told the court that he had received full details of the scientific tests carried out by the Ministry that morning .
8 The first is much larger : 444 interviews carried out in the early 1970s .
9 The first of a new series of annual reports on attitudes , values and beliefs , Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland is based on detailed interviews carried out with a large and representative sample of adults , and presents exacting analyses of their opinions on a wide range of issues — including national identity , law and order , discrimination , the role of women , morality , poverty and AIDS .
10 Therefore there may not be as much agreement on this point in economic evaluations carried out in the future .
11 The aim is to elucidate some of the methods by which entrepreneurial decisions are reached and entrepreneurial activities carried out on a day to day basis .
12 Some systemically-desirable information , although part of the wider system , was not relevant to the actual activities carried out in the EPH .
13 In this model there are two distinct functions carried out by the Treasury : economic policy , planning and advice ; and financial management control .
14 The administration of an oath in England without lawful authority is an offence , but a person appointed by order of a foreign court or other judicial authority has the necessary authority by virtue of section 1 of the Oaths and Evidence ( Overseas Authorities and Countries ) Act 1963 , for use in civil proceedings carried on under the law of that country , and a consul may administer an oath under certain other statutory provisions .
15 The collection comes from almost fifty digs carried out over the last twenty years .
16 The collection comes from almost fifty digs carried out over the last twenty years .
17 For it is the kind of work that these individuals carried on with the knowledge that they were seeking to improve life on earth , that set the example for the vast mass of the human race to follow and thereby perpetuate , albeit largely unknowingly , the strengthening and augmentation of the Created God .
18 Gas chromatographic methods for the determination of herbicides , for example Simazine and Atrazine , are being developed for use in groundwater-pollution studies carried out by the BGS 's Hydro-geology Group .
19 These surveys add data to those furnished by previous surveys carried out by the Preservation Division in recent years , that measured the brittle paper problem in the Library and the condition of particular areas of the special collections and manuscript collections .
20 The major impetus for this work have been the national surveys carried out by the Home Office , the British Crime Surveys of 1982 , 1984 and 1988 .
21 These procedures carried on until the 1939–45 war .
22 Their evidence is based on structured interviews carried out with a sample of 1770 British men and women .
23 The WHO collaborative studies carried out in the 1970s , indeed , support the suggestions made above .
24 Not only touch , but all activities carried out in the vicinity of the patient , offer the nurse an opportunity to show empathy .
25 This is an analysis of what the major activities carried out by the organisation should be .
26 Mullineux ( 1985 ) argues that many functions carried out by the Bank of England could be done so by private sector institutions .
27 The regular surveys carried out by the British Antarctic Survey at its Halley Bay and Faraday stations show that two-thirds of the layer had been destroyed before the end of September .
28 But now it 's all divorce and even the married ones carry on in a very odd way .
29 Those who authorise the dreadful deeds carried out by the torturers ( or whoever ) also share whatever proportion of this retrospective agony the deity — or his angelic cost-benefit-calculating representatives — deem they deserve .
30 This is based on calculations performed by chemical engineers and also on experimental trials carried out in a laboratory or pilot plant .
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