Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] carried [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 While the Supreme Soviet was not sitting , its functions were carried out by the Praesidium , a committee of Supreme Soviet officials and other members .
2 Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary .
3 Further extensive trials were carried out before the first Hip and Thigh Diet was published in 1988 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Commander David Tucker head of the anti-terrorist squad believes both attacks were carried out by the same IRA unit .
9 Sequencing of DNA fragments subcloned into M13 vectors was carried out by the method of Sanger et al ( 25 ) , using a modified T7 DNA polymerase ( Sequenase , United States Biochemical Corporation ) .
10 These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex .
11 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 .
12 These experiments were carried out by the method reported by Huijghebaert and Hofmann .
13 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 .
14 The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Instead , studies were carried out with the focus now on the listener rather than the speaker .
18 Several case studies were carried out in the 1970s , of which the Liverpool Inner Area Study ( 1975 ) is of particular interest .
19 The tower was off limits , after all , and someone was just ensuring that the Baron 's orders were carried out to the letter .
20 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 .
21 Inspections were carried out by the Ceramic Industries Certification Scheme Ltd who are linked with the British Ceramic Research Association .
22 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 .
23 It is likely the alterations were carried out towards the end of a relatively prosperous period , before a collapse in trade , between 1810 and 1820 .
24 Other such developments were carried out by the Ashworth brothers at Bank Top , Egerton and New Eagley , where estates were provided with schools , libraries and chapels , and each house had its own garden and piped water .
25 Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years .
26 The drive against corporations was carried out in the same spirit ; the only reason why the Whigs and Nonconformists had grown so influential in corporation politics was because the Corporation Act of 1661 had not been properly enforced .
27 Until post-war reconstruction began in the 1950s and early 1960s , most building projects were carried out in the traditional manner , with an architect designing the building and managing the contract , a quantity surveyor preparing bills of quantities , valuations and a final account , and a general contractor who actually constructed the building .
28 It was designed as a more effective replacement for the Police Complaints Board ( PCB ) which the public appeared to have lost faith in due to the fact that few complaints were ever substantiated , and that all investigations were carried out by the police themselves .
29 Unsafe act audits were carried out by the management , by the weekly staff and by the contractors .
30 In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed .
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