Example sentences of "[was/were] carried out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Extensive geological and geophysical surveys were carried out over the next two years , and the governments negotiated with an international group of banks interested in financing the construction of the tunnel .
2 Furthermore , no alteration of the protein pattern in the electrophoresis was observed when the competitions were carried out with the mutated oligonucleotides ( results not shown ) , demonstrating that the binding of the proteins to the oligonucleotide was specific .
3 Subsequent measurements were carried out with the 76-m Lovell telescope at frequencies between 408MHz and 1,660 MHz .
4 Therefore , in order to minimise the risk of falsely rejecting an existing difference , p values less than 0.05 were considered as significant although multiple tests were carried out on the same data .
5 Age is unlikely to have influenced the findings or the conclusions of our study , because all the tests and comparisons were carried out on the same group of patients .
6 Two further operations to her left wrist were carried out on the twenty seventh of January nineteen eighty nine and the twenty sixth of April nineteen eighty nine .
7 Further extensive trials were carried out before the first Hip and Thigh Diet was published in 1988 .
8 Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study .
9 Until post-war reconstruction began in the 1950s and early 1960s , most building projects were carried out in the traditional manner , with an architect designing the building and managing the contract , a quantity surveyor preparing bills of quantities , valuations and a final account , and a general contractor who actually constructed the building .
10 Several case studies were carried out in the 1970s , of which the Liverpool Inner Area Study ( 1975 ) is of particular interest .
11 The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century .
12 Surveys carried out by the optical profession show that after an initial drop , 12.43 million sight tests were carried out in the financial year ending 1991 .
13 The Commission was to have not just the right to initiate and recommend policy to its executive partner , the Council of Ministers , but also the task of ensuring that the provisions of the treaty and policies emanating from the Council of Ministers were carried out by the other institutions and the member states .
14 Inspections were carried out by the Ceramic Industries Certification Scheme Ltd who are linked with the British Ceramic Research Association .
15 The settlers ' attempts at agriculture were frustrated , except on the southern steppe frontier , by frozen subsoil and the sub-arctic climate , and as they were carried out by the primitive ‘ slash-and-burn ’ method , were highly destructive of the forest environment .
16 Commander David Tucker head of the anti-terrorist squad believes both attacks were carried out by the same IRA unit .
17 It is finally stated in the report that the police believed the rapes were carried out by the same man , who is described quite fully .
18 The Government 's being urged to stop developers bulldozing a site where vital intelligence work was carried out during the Second World War .
19 An offshore spectrometric survey was carried out over the seaward extension of Geevor mine to detect additional mineralised lodes and to map the granite/killas contact ( MEG 264 ) .
20 A persistent witchhunt was carried out over the proposed women candidates within the new Clinton administration , focusing on their childcare and domestic arrangements .
21 The investigation was carried out under the Obscene Publications Act .
22 The initial study was carried out as the practical project for my MSc course in 1987 .
23 This operation was carried out as the only possible way of dealing with the menace of the drug dealers .
24 For most work completed prior to 1989 construction was carried out for the Regional Council by teams employed under the Special Measures Programme of the City of Edinburgh District Council with financial support from the former Manpower Services Commission .
25 A dynamic study of the posterior lung fields was carried out for the first 15 minutes after injecting the radiolabelled leucocytes .
26 The procedure described above ( homogenisation , extraction , two dimensional chromatography , and densitometric reading ) was carried out with the gastric mucosa sample ( A ) , the phospholipid mixture ( B ) , and the mucosa sample and phospholipid mixture together ( C=A+B ) .
27 Because of the two factor experimental design ( substance and site ) , two way analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) was carried out on the incremental hormone responses after the test stimuli .
28 Further expansion was carried out on the same basis , progressively moving through the model until more specific activities started to emerge , such as those that could be associated with component 8.7 , ie reduce costs :
29 Further modernisation was carried out at the Imperial Grain Warehouse .
30 The operation was carried out at the National Heart the next day , with the odds improving and I was then transferred to Harefield for five weeks .
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