Example sentences of "[noun sg] was carry [adv prt] at " in BNC.

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1 But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study .
2 A similar study was carried out at Baulking , Wiltshire .
3 The 24-year-old central defender was carried off at Tranmere Rovers on Friday night when his knee locked .
4 A complementary body of work was carried out at this time by Flavell and his colleagues ( 1981 ) .
5 Considerable work was carried out at the old carding mill .
6 Much detailed work was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April 1992 [ see p. 38890 ] .
7 His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya .
8 Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier .
9 Whereupon Stoker , gifted with Dublin 's malice , wrote instead a novel — about a bloodsucking , ennobled gentleman whose business was carried on at night , in or around grand dramatic buildings .
10 Further modernisation was carried out at the Imperial Grain Warehouse .
11 A second controlled explosion was carried out at 10.55pm and people were told to stay up to a mile away from the scene .
12 While this might be thought to have a major impact , the effects would have been lessened if the cremating was carried out at dispersed homes .
13 The grossing-up procedure was carried out at SIC Class level , separately for large and small companies .
14 Much of the detailed work on the conventions agreed at the summit was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April [ see ED no. 58 ] .
15 Most of the Cotswold silk trade was carried out at Blockley , over some 200 years .
16 This initial mobilisation was carried out at the beginning of March with all staff receiving company induction , full food hygiene training and safety induction and familiarisation on board the two installations .
17 In the late 1950s and early 1960s a survey of sources of radio waves from outer space was carried out at Cambridge by a group of astronomers led by Martin Ryle ( who had also worked with Bondi , Gold , and Hoyle on radar during the war ) .
18 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 .
19 All were given intravenous heparin and cardiac catheterisation was carried out at I 014 days .
20 The pilot was carried out at two of our locations , Greenock in Scotland , where we have a manufacturing and development site , and Bristol .
21 Manual adjustment of the model was carried out at intervals of the refinement .
22 The commendation reads : ‘ A difficult rescue was carried out at a high degree of risk to the crew .
23 Hybridisation was carried out at 54°C in 80% formamide after which the products were digested at 25°C for 2 hours using 100u of S1 nuclease and analysed by fractionation on a denaturing polyacrylamide gel .
24 The purchase and sale of the land was carried out at fixed 1945 prices at a time of rampant inflation , which meant that landlords were virtually expropriated and farmers were able to pay off the purchase price and own their land outright in a year or two .
25 For these , training was a regular event and in one case was carried out at a separate meeting every alternate month .
26 A pioneering and influential study in this field was carried out at the University of Birmingham by Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) .
27 The sentence was carried out at Trier , but Priscillian 's body was carried back to Spain and buried in Galicia .
28 Consequently a great deal of fulling , spinning , weaving and dyeing was carried out at domestic level , with plants probably being deliberately cultivated to provide dyes .
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