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

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1 Whippings in Sri Lanka were carried out with a cat-o-nine-tails and flayed the back of the prisoner , scarring him for life .
2 Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane .
3 The Labour MP for Jarrow said investigations into alleged abuse of the postal system were carried out as a matter of routine .
4 The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments .
5 The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia .
6 Data recording and assessment of results were carried out by a member of the unit who did not participate in endoscopic treatment or looked after the patients .
7 In Belfast , the first three of these ( in the inner-city areas ) were carried out by an outsider to Northern Ireland ( myself ) who as a consequence was not assigned a role in relation to local ethnic categories .
8 Two were carrying on at a polytechnic , and one was training to be a teacher at a college of Higher Education .
9 Their love affair was carried on against a background of nightly bombings , wartime tension , the advance of the German army on Paris .
10 Conversation was carried on against a background of ear-splitting barking .
11 Trading was carried out under a barter system — two blankets for a cow , and so on .
12 Observation was carried out for a total of nine weeks in the offices of four solicitors .
13 This was carried out with a sample of some 2,000 establishments in 1980 and in 1984 ( see , Daniel/Millward , 1983 ; Millward/Stevens , 1986 ) .
14 Last year 's survey was carried out with a group of practitioners at an audit regulation meeting run by the Southern Society , and in view of the continuing concerns about regulation , we repeated this exercise with 160 practitioners who attended a similar meeting in October 1992. 64 responses were received , some of which represented one response from several representatives of the same firm .
15 In one large-scale study , the secondary mathematics project ‘ CSMS ’ ( Hart , 1981 ) , extensive interviewing was carried out on a range of mathematical topics , and the strategies that pupils used were identified .
16 Processing was carried out on a SPARC 4/75 with 48 MBytes of memory .
17 DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis was carried out on a primary and recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma in a hepatitis B virus negative patient .
18 The subsequent withdrawal from empire , which flowed from these events , was carried out on a strategy set out in a Chiefs of Staff Paper which remained the military planners ' increasingly tattered bible until Roy Mason 's 1974 Defence review made British military strategy synonymous with NATO strategy .
19 As part of the work associated with the preparation of the first Road Safety Plan , an analysis of road accident data was carried out on a number of areas eligible for Urban Aid grant .
20 The procedure was carried out on an outpatient basis without analgesics or sedatives .
21 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 ] .
22 Much of the detailed work on the conventions agreed at the summit 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 [ see ED no. 58 ] .
23 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 .
24 His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya .
25 The survey was carried out against a background of growing concern as to the implications of climate change on sea level rise .
26 Most of the work for this momentous event was carried out by a sub-committee for which no records exist .
27 The most important recent investigation was carried out by a Committee of Enquiry chaired by Lord Elton .
28 ‘ The fact that such specific parts were targeted , useless to anyone else , seems to indicate that this dastardly deed was carried out by a steam preservation ‘ colleague ’ with a view to fitting to a similar GWR-designed loco — quite sickening if so .
29 Once the ‘ mummy ’ had been removed from its grave , a proper examination was carried out by a Dr W.V. Pettigrew :
30 The attack was carried out by a unit composed of fighters from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party — the Higher Council .
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