Example sentences of "[was/were] carried [adv prt] by the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , as the reader will see , few operations of this type were carried out by the SBS in the Mediterranean after 1943 .
2 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 .
3 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 " .
4 Unsafe act audits were carried out by the management , by the weekly staff and by the contractors .
5 Major petrographical studies on the rocks of various parts of Scotland were carried out by the Petrographer in London .
6 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 .
7 These experiments were carried out by the method reported by Huijghebaert and Hofmann .
8 While the Supreme Soviet was not sitting , its functions were carried out by the Praesidium , a committee of Supreme Soviet officials and other members .
9 It was designed as a more effective replacement for the Police Complaints Board ( PCB ) which the public appeared to have lost faith in due to the fact that few complaints were ever substantiated , and that all investigations were carried out by the police themselves .
10 he had hard all about the long sorties that were carried out by the Washingtons , so he was quite chuffed that his trip was for only three hours .
11 The lowliest of railway jobs were carried out by the mountain Indians or the men of slightly mixed blood , the cholos .
12 There was no limitation on the period of service overseas that a man could agree to undertake , and the crown was relieved of the burden of administration : recruiting , mustering and paying the troops were carried out by the officials of the magnates who made the contracts .
13 They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank .
14 Again the work was completed in Oxford , and was carried through by the leadership of a man who made no mistakes in seeking chemical collaboration or in letting matters drop for lack of it .
15 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 .
16 This may be guided by the subsequent text pages which describe the intervention that was carried out by the Smiths .
17 The histological examination of carcinomas and polyps was carried out by the Pathology Department of the Dudley Road Hospital .
18 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 .
19 Before rebuilding , an archaeological excavation was carried out by the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust which established by radio-carbon dating that the site had been used as a burial ground for about one thousand years before Melangell 's time .
20 After 1847 the printing was carried out by the firm of Harrison , who operated inside the building .
21 Prior to this it was carried out by the Directorship-general of Fine Arts , Academies and Libraries , part of the Ministry of Education .
22 In the past a private sector proposal had to demonstrate that funding costs would be less than if it was carried out by the Government .
23 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 .
24 The assessment of the suitability of the college to undertake CNAA degrees was carried out by the Council , and board members would be kept informed of the Council 's views when relevant : ‘ it frequently becomes unnecessary for a subject board to consider any matters other than those directly related to the operation of a particular course of study . ’
25 The best known of the earlier endeavours is probably Project Sappho , which was carried out by the Science Policy Review Unit ( SPRU ) based at the University of Sussex .
26 The repair work was carried out by the substitute , Neil Murray , who had replaced Gough .
27 Sequencing of DNA fragments subcloned into M13 vectors was carried out by the method of Sanger et al ( 25 ) , using a modified T7 DNA polymerase ( Sequenase , United States Biochemical Corporation ) .
28 Llewellyn ( 1986 ) points out that until 1974 banking supervision was carried out by the Bank 's Discount Office , which was responsible for money market operations .
29 He in his turn was carried in by the men .
30 The following year his whole family was carried off by the plague , while in 1666 most of his remaining property was destroyed by the fire .
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