Example sentences of "[was/were] carry [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first visit , when Graham was just 13 months old , countless tests were carried out to try to find the cause of the illness . |
| 2 | The transfection was performed exactly as described for stationary cells except all procedures were carried out with medium containing 10% serum . |
| 3 | As described in Chapter 4 ( pp. 41–102 ) , trials of appropriate test items were carried out in order to ascertain how difficult pupils found the items . |
| 4 | Observations on the way in which the tasks were performed , the time taken , and discussions with the students about their problems in orientation were carried out in order to provide information for eventual modification of the programme of orientation . |
| 5 | When the Kruskall-Wallis test disclosed a significant p value , the Mann-Whitney U test was carried out in order to detect where the differences occur . |
| 6 | As for the doorstep survey , this was carried out in order to generalize about the speech of the city as a whole , and in this way to be able to describe modifications to the vernacular that might be of general import . |
| 7 | The evaluation was carried out in order to provide information for a decision as to whether or not this type of material could be used for the user instruction programme at Chalmers University Library . |