Example sentences of "were [verb] out on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , 12 Merchant Ships were built and repairs and refits were carried out on 370 naval vessels and 2437 merchant vessels during the period 1939 – 45 . |
| 2 | Studies were carried out on 10 healthy normal control subjects , ( six men , four women , age range 28–72 years ) five patients with benign gastric ulcer ( three women , two men , age range 42–81 years ) , and 10 patients ( seven men , three women , age range 44–73 years ) who had persistent pain ( >3 months ) after vagotomy and pyloroplasty , vagotomy and antrectomy , vagotomy and gastroenterostomy , or Bilroth 1 gastrectomy . |
| 3 | EMSAs were carried out on nuclear extracts of non transfected Hep3B cells ( END ) in the presence ( + ) or absence ( - ) of IL-6 , and on nuclear extracts of uninduced Hep3B cells transfected with C/EBPδ . |
| 4 | EMSA were carried out on nuclear extracts from Hep3B cells stimulated for various time intervals with IL-6 in the absence ( - ) or presence ( + ) of 10 µg/ml. of cycloheximide ( CHX ) . |
| 5 | Very few modifications were carried out on these cars while in the ownership of Croydon Corporation . |
| 6 | Most shoppers were splashing out on practical items and steering clear of the luxury goods , he said . |
| 7 | Their ages ranged from about fourteen to fifty , but the majority were youngsters out at work all day who were losing out on regular schooling . |
| 8 | Apples of many shades of yellow and red , brown and gold were laid out on yellowed newspaper , line after line , row upon row , on broad slatted shelves . |
| 9 | Jewelled cups , their precious stones glinting in the sunlight , and silver dishes were laid out on handsome chests and cabinets . |
| 10 | The room looked like the dining room ; a sideboard with some bottles and a bowl of fruit on it was visible , and Penelope was now able to see that the remains of a kind of meal — a loaf of bread , a hunk of orange-coloured cheese and two glasses — were set out on one half of the table . |
| 11 | In it coins and medals were set out on faded velvet pads and , at the back , there were cards of stamps displayed under amber polythene to protect them from the light . |
| 12 | And , though Tito 's slogan of ‘ Unity and Brotherhood ’ implied a lid on national — Serb or Croat — feeling , state jobs were dished out on national lines . |
| 13 | Food was short , and resupplying the Company put the ships at even greater risk than in the previous month : as a result the platoons were taken out on 9–10 January 1943 , leaving only a small party under Lieutenant Henry Flood to gather information . |
| 14 | Eight-year old Jack Spier and his friends were allowed out on special travel cards . |
| 15 | In mid-June 1940 , when the Nazis were sweeping through Belgium , we were sent out on one occasion to find a very large wooded area near Rotterdam . |
| 16 | The manufacturers were generally happy with the BEA 's conservatism , which suited their export concentration on low technology markets , and gave them a relatively easy and highly profitable life ( though as the 1950s advanced more of them were to become worried that they were missing out on new technical developments as their world market share slipped ) . |
| 17 | But the main difficulty was that if compensation were paid out on this ‘ once for all ’ basis , ‘ it would be exceedingly difficult for any future government ever to make radical changes in the financial provisions , however badly they were working . |