Example sentences of "test [was/were] carry [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 The original validation of the test was carried out using 86 subjects , ranging in age from 7 years 4 months to 9 years .
2 Considering cases where there was no evidence of early injury to the brain , which may result in a shift of hemispheric dominance for speech ( see Chapter 7 ) , the test was carried out on 140 right handers .
3 The final test was carried out with just two biologists .
4 In addition , a time series test was carried out on a random sample of 254 of these issues .
5 The acetylcholine sweat spot test was carried out injecting 0.1 ml of a 1% solution of acetylcholine ( Miochol — CooperVision Ltd , Southampton , UK ) intradermally using a 25 gauge needle in a marked area of the dorsum of the foot which had previously been painted with a 2% alcholic iodine solution and a suspension of maize starch in arachis oil ( 100 g in 100 ml ) .
6 This test was carried out after 12 hours fasting with patients in the supine position .
7 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 .
8 This test was carried out on six patients with peritonitis , and the severity of bacterial peritonitis was expressed quantitatively .
9 If fluid from the prostate and a specimen of the ejaculate are also examined , however , the diagnosis rate increases markedly , and over 70 per cent of male contacts were shown to be harbouring the organism in one series where these exhaustive tests were carried out .
10 The following week tests were carried out and I went with Dad to watch the Brigade endeavouring to pump water to the roof of Blooms the Drapers on The Canal — possibly the City 's tallest building .
11 For example , the uninformed reader will almost certainly conclude that Herbert Needleman 's neuropsychological tests were carried out on not just 158 children but on all 2000 children in the study .
12 Psychometric tests were carried out over six months .
13 The aircraft was designated the W-3 and initial flight tests were carried out at Abbotsinch near Glasgow on July 9 , 1936 .
14 ‘ We are confident the tests were carried out correctly . ’
15 ‘ No fatigue tests were carried out on the B 707–300 series horizontal stabiliser structure prior to USA or UK certification .
16 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 .
17 To assess Mr Reynolds ' fitness , various observations ( temperature , pulse , respirations , weight , urine tests ) and routine blood tests were carried out and checked to ensure that the results were within normal limits .
18 The statistical test which measures the strength of the relationship between paired sets of observations of this kind is a correlation test , and a large number of these tests were carried out to investigate the relationship ( L. Milroy 1980 : 149–166 ; Fasold 1984 , chapter 4 ) .
19 The tests were carried out by Coopers and Lybrand who apparently found that Borland Quattro Pro for Windows outscored both Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 in 6 out of 10 categories .
20 The levels were then topped up to around 20 metres and final tests were carried out before being handed back to operations .
21 Some preliminary tests were carried out to determine the contribution of each light alone , and it was discovered that ‘ C ’ gave approximately half the incident light .
22 Some tests were carried out to examine the accuracy of definition of the field of view of the radiometer .
23 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 .
24 Today Mark joined his colleagues for a training session in Armagh during which fitness tests were carried out on Mark and John Grimley , Ciaran McGurk and Gerard Houlahan .
25 Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth .
26 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 .
27 The Pyloriset Latex ( Orion Diagnostica , Finland ) and the Helico-G ( Porton Cambridge , Maidenhead , UK ) tests were carried out according to the manufacturers 's instructions and ad recently described .
28 Tests were carried out but it was decided to operate before the results of the tests were known .
29 The tests were carried out as part of ICI 's extensive research programme into alternatives to CFCs .
30 The tests were carried out some years previously under Soviet rule .
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