Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] carry [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No further attacks developed but five escorting destroyers of Capt. Lord Louis Mountbatten 's 5th Destroyer Flotilla were detached to carry out a bombardment of Benghazi just after midnight .
2 The Supreme Soviet also resolved that the President , Boris Yeltsin , should remove from office ministers who were failing to carry out the decisions of the republic 's legislative bodies .
3 Self-evidently he does not go out and list them himself , and very early on historic building investigators were appointed to carry out the task and guidelines for listing drawn up .
4 Comparatively large ‘ irregular forces ’ were earmarked to carry out the raids , which would be commanded by Hazelden for Tobruk and Stirling for Benghazi .
5 Researchers from the Imperial College of Science , Technology and Medicine in London , and an independent company , Social and Community Planning Research , which were to have carried out the survey , had not been informed officially .
6 " After some discussion it was arranged to carry on the Winter Meetings fortnightly as last year .
7 To minimise any impact on the hotel operation during the modernisation of the lifts , it was decided to carry out the work on a lift by lift basis , with each lift being modernised within a 16 week period .
8 Two other modifications to the description resulted which were entered into LIFESPAN , and it was decided to carry out the quality approval .
9 Indeed , he was selected to carry up the bill of settlement to the Lords , and in 1702 piloted through Parliament a measure to attaint the pretender .
10 The American firm , United Research Group , was asked to carry out an efficiency study of the supplies department , which buys hospital equipment .
11 While the work carried out by Touche Ross is now open to criticism , in fairness , that firm was asked to carry out the work within an unreasonably short timescale .
12 The nurse , who was dismissed , claimed she was trained to carry out the tests by the doctor who employed her , GP Dr Ashok Kumar .
13 Boardman , who has a three-year-old daughter , claimed she was forced to carry out the abduction by an unnamed man and woman .
14 On the periphery of the Lunar landing operation itself , Armstrong was required to carry out a series of tests and experiments .
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