Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Stone of Destiny was in alien hands , but in other respects the coronation ceremony on 25 March 1306 was carried out according to tradition . |
| 2 | PCR amplification was carried out according to Perkin Elmer Cetus instructions in a final volume of 50 µl with 50 pmoles of 5' and 3' primers , 200 mM dNTPS , 0.5U of Taq polymerase ( Cetus Corp. ) in PCR buffer ( 2.5 mM MgCl 2 , 50 mM KCl , 10 mM Tris-HCl [ pH 8.3 ] , 0.001% gelatin ) . |
| 3 | Transfection of plasmid DNA was carried out according to the method of Gorman ( 19 ) . |
| 4 | The sandwich ELISA for urokinase type plasminogen activator was carried out according to Binnema et al . |
| 5 | The washing of the northern blots was carried out according to standard methods . |
| 6 | The way in which Germanisation was carried out gave to the newly released serfs , the put-upon peasantry , the tiny Polish middle class which felt itself to be discriminated against , and the ambitious and inflexible Polish nobility a rallying point — probably their only rallying point . |
| 7 | As soon as the result was announced , however , Heseltine and then Hurd conceded to Major , and despite some initial confusion as to the correct procedure it was decided not to proceed to a third ballot in which a preference system of voting would have obtained . |
| 8 | But I think erm the general point that was made really has to be considered alongside other considerations , is is the the key consideration . |
| 9 | On the morning of the 28th the Emperor arrived at the tiny railway station accompanied by the Empress and by the 14-year-old Prince Imperial , who , like his father , was wearing military uniform , since he was destined also to go to Metz . |
| 10 | Fortunately , in 1749 , it was recorded in the form Abotsbery Land and was shown subsequently to belong to the poor lands charity of Abbotsbury , a few miles from Weymouth in Dorset . |
| 11 | Hamilton , presumably to fool the Abwehr if they had wind of it , was told not to reply to the suggestion of a meeting outside England until the day after Hess had flown . |
| 12 | Oxyhaemoglobin was prepared from bovine haemoglobin ( 75% methaemoglobin , Sigma Chemicals Ltd ) and its purity was assessed spectrophotometrically according to the method described by Martin et al . |
| 13 | ‘ What about Saturday , the following night , when Matthew was called out to see to the lights at Morvyl — did you hear him going or coming back ? ’ |
| 14 | INDUSTRY Secretary Peter Lilley was challenged yesterday to apologise to the people of Hartlepool . |
| 15 | The Routine Business Committee was set up to attend to matters of a routine nature , or those which have already been approved in principle by the Board or the Executive Committee and require further detailed work to carry them into effect . |
| 16 | Candy was brought up dancing to soul and reggae from the age of six in Ladbroke Grove . |
| 17 | During the first consultation a great deal of time was taken up listening to Maxine 's story and reassuring her that her problem was not incapable of being solved , although at that stage I was not quite certain how long this would take . |
| 18 | The settlement which was worked out had to be palatable to all the leading protagonists : Whig and Tory politicians in the Lords and Commons ; the Church Establishment and the Protestant Nonconformists ; and the new monarchs themselves , William and Mary . |
| 19 | As archivists are acutely aware , even if electronic records are made ‘ readable ’ , to be of use to the historian of the future the context in which the document was created also needs to be retained ( Zweig 1992 ; Higgs 1992 ) . |
| 20 | He was determined not to lie to her . |
| 21 | Christina was determined not to add to them , but was beginning to experience grave doubts of her own about Colin Weatherhead 's reliability . |
| 22 | Anyway things got quite hot and eventually one of the guides was sent over to talk to the Indians and the word came back that they would n't share their camp with us anyway , which is quite funny I suppose . |
| 23 | ‘ I only know that the Meeting Notice was sent out according to a list drawn up by the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 24 | Their hunch was held not to amount to a reasonable suspicion . |
| 25 | The severity of oesophagitis was graded endoscopically according to a recently proposed modification of the original Savary and Miller classification . |
| 26 | Scarborough lifeboat was launched yesterday to go to the aid of a motor cruiser Sea Spray after it broke down off Cayton Bay . |
| 27 | A major task of the later software was to arrange that the exposure was chosen automatically according to the current illumination . |