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

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1 Doctors said the biopsy was carried out in a different part of the brain to where the rupture of the aneurysm occurred and was not responsible for the death .
2 An experiment was carried out with a mixed age group of macaques .
3 This experiment was carried out in a dedicated growth room with walls well masked with charcoal-grey cartridge paper .
4 At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site .
5 The Mujaheddin claimed that the murder was carried out by the Iranian embassy in Switzerland on the orders of the then Iranian President Khamenei .
6 Research was carried out on the stability of such ferries , which took some time .
7 The research was carried out for a doctoral dissertation on the princely sum of £410 per annum ( this was the ‘ married woman 's ’ rate of postgraduate grant at the time , £120 lower than the full grant ) .
8 Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings .
9 The journal contains material of interest to historians concerned with late colonial Nigeria , and with the developments among the Nupe people and their neighbours at this time ; and material which illuminates how one body of anthropological field research was carried out against the background of colonial administration .
10 When the marriage of Henry and Constance was solemnised on 27th January 1186 , the ceremony was carried out by the Patriarch of Aquileia , who also crowned Henry as King of Italy .
11 A study was carried out of the behaviour of …
12 The initial study was carried out as the practical project for my MSc course in 1987 .
13 But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study .
14 A study was carried out in a Bedfordshire village , i.e. a semi-rural environment , of predation by domestic cats over a one-year period and the results were published in a zoological journal in 1987 .
15 This study was carried out in a range of locations and tenures , and tested people 's awareness of energy saving products , conservation measures , and novel types of energy technology using ambient energy ( eg solar collectors ) , all rated against their costs of installation , running and maintenance .
16 The study was carried out in the West Berkshire and the Basingstoke and North Hampshire District Health Authorities .
17 The volunteers fasted overnight , or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon .
18 The volunteers fasted overnight or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon .
19 The RHA 's review was carried out by a small team of experts led by a psychiatrist and including a senior nurse and a senior social services representative .
20 The ministry , it declared , had been for over a generation " merely the faithful executor of the intentions " of Alexander I and Nicholas I , so that " its every action was carried out under the orders and instructions of the tsars themselves " .
21 The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 .
22 I think it would be true to say that my two brothers and sister and I were products of the Anglican parochial system , at a time when almost all charitable work was carried on by the churches .
23 After Young 's death his work was carried on by the French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion ( 1790–1832 ) .
24 Work was carried on around the lump in a fairly ordered pattern helping to keep everything in proportion .
25 Much detailed work was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April 1992 [ see p. 38890 ] .
26 Considerable work was carried out at the old carding mill .
27 Extensive conservation work was carried out on an important manuscript map of the Isle of Lewis , produced by Alexander Gibbs in 1817 .
28 As the twenty-two by thirty-two foot painting was too large to move , restoration work was carried out on the spot behind tarpaulins fitted with transparent panels to allow visitors — most of them drawn to the Salle des Fetes by the ‘ Mona Lisa ’ — to watch work in progress .
29 From the time of Laurence little work was carried out on the Palace and it was again allowed to fall into decay .
30 ‘ In 1991 , £250,000 worth of work was carried out with the help of contributions from local businesses . ’
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