Example sentences of "[was/were] carry [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reforms of Joseph II ( 1780–90 ) , which were carried through in the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment , included a secularisation of education and the recognition of the rights of the Slav subjects of the Empire to instruct in their own language . |
| 2 | Her words were carried away on the breeze , to join the tumult of sounds . |
| 3 | The loose rocks were carried away in the ice as it slipped downhill into the valleys . |
| 4 | Besides a number of activities which took place at a regional level , many more were carried on throughout the year by its corporate and personal members . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Emergency repairs were carried out to the hotel and houses , many of which had damaged roofs and broken windows , throughout yesterday . |
| 7 | The tower was off limits , after all , and someone was just ensuring that the Baron 's orders were carried out to the letter . |
| 8 | Instead , studies were carried out with the focus now on the listener rather than the speaker . |
| 9 | Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years . |
| 10 | In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ No fatigue tests were carried out on the B 707–300 series horizontal stabiliser structure prior to USA or UK certification . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals . |
| 16 | The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages . |
| 17 | These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex . |
| 18 | All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name . |
| 19 | Our case studies of casual working were carried out in the hotels and catering industry where a large proportion of the casual labour force is to be found . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth . |
| 24 | However , as the reader will see , few operations of this type were carried out by the SBS in the Mediterranean after 1943 . |
| 25 | Under working practices at the time , junctions so approved could be put into full operation before final safety checks were carried out by the inspectorate . |
| 26 | By Brig Scott 's account , " as far as I could see , during the next twenty four hours , all the arrangements in connection with the surrender and evacuation were carried out by the Yugoslavs speedily and efficiently " . |
| 27 | Unsafe act audits were carried out by the management , by the weekly staff and by the contractors . |
| 28 | Major petrographical studies on the rocks of various parts of Scotland were carried out by the Petrographer in London . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | These experiments were carried out by the method reported by Huijghebaert and Hofmann . |