Example sentences of "[noun pl] carried [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the projects carried out by ERA-WACC during the year were : a colloquium held in Moscow on the MacBride Report , entitled ‘ Europe speaks to Europe ’ ; a conference on communication ethics ( also held in Moscow ) ; a worship workshop for TV producers in western and eastern Europe ; and the setting up of a European Women 's network . |
| 2 | Reactions Carried Out at Constsnt Volume |
| 3 | Despite widespread agreement that opencast coal mining is among the most environmentally destructive activities carried out in Wales , the Government has until recently tried to increase output from this method . |
| 4 | At Equity & Law , marketing manager Taylor says that the references and character checks carried out on Stephen Wright gave no hint of what was to come . |
| 5 | Checks carried out in Leeds after the fire gave a dose of 0.15 rems to the thyroid with an initial ground concentration of 320 nanocuries per sq . |
| 6 | Investigations carried out by ILEA in the 1960s tended to bear out this anxiety ( Little , 1975 ) , as did a variety of other surveys ( for a useful review see Tomlinson , 1983 , pp. 27–59 ) . |
| 7 | The discovery of dopamine and its mode of action involved basic experiments on catecholamines in animals carried out at Oxford ; it contributed to the development of L-dopa as a treatment for Parkinson 's disease . |
| 8 | According to Kang and Wilson , the best results are achieved if leguminous species are used to create the hedge , and trials carried out in Nigeria have shown that the most promising species are Leucaena leucocephala and Gliricidia sepium which will grow successfully even on degraded land . |
| 9 | The first government inventory of rhino horn stocks carried out in November 1990 , recorded 1,415 kg in the hands of 386 traders . |
| 10 | The Spanish authorities announced on Jan. 25 , 1991 , that they had dismantled an ETA commando responsible for six murders and 26 bomb attacks carried out between January 1988 and September 1990 . |
| 11 | A series of attacks carried out in Britain and West Germany in June were presumed to be the work of the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) . |
| 12 | Two guerrilla attacks carried out in La Paz , the capital , on Oct. 10 and early on Oct. 11 resulted respectively in an explosion at a United States Marines residence and the destruction of a monument to United States President John F. Kennedy . |
| 13 | On Oct 1 the high command of the ( Serbian-dominated ) Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , accusing Croatia of violating the Sept. 22 ceasefire [ see p. 38421 ] , threatened Croatia with reprisals on Croatian civilian targets for attacks carried out against JNA barracks in Croatia . |
| 14 | The excavations carried out by Napoleon III in 1860–5 found 134 Roman coins ( the latest of about 54BC ) and 447 coins made by the Celtic tribes of Gaul . |
| 15 | There is also an interesting account of the excavations carried out by Wright which caused Sir Mortimer Wheeler years later to use it as an illustration of how not to carry out an archaeological dig . |
| 16 | Relatively well-paid professionals over 40 who are not too worried about their image , according to a survey of 1,000 owners carried out by BRS Car Lease through Diesel Car magazine . |
| 17 | It accepted the British government 's contention that environmental impact studies carried out at Twyford Down and the four other projects satisfied the spirit of the EC 's environmental assessment directives . |
| 18 | Studies carried out in Hull , did nothing to confirm this prediction . |
| 19 | A number of independent research studies carried out in California , Massachusetts , Hawaii and London have shown that moderate drinkers have a lower mortality rate than total abstainers and are less likely to suffer from coronary disease . |
| 20 | In the past some of the most famous research studies carried out in Britain by means of social surveys have not been concerned with testing hypotheses . |
| 21 | Results of studies carried out in Great Britain and the United States serve as illustrations . |
| 22 | Our results agree with studies carried out by Roncucci et al , Bleiberg et al , and Terpstra et al , however , who have all found that subjects with adenomatous polyps had a significantly higher labelling index than those with no colonic disease . |
| 23 | The historical case studies carried out by Lakatos and his followers certainly lend some support to that latter claim . |
| 24 | The authorities hastened to present details of the detentions carried out since mid-January , which had attracted concerned comment from both Algerian and international human rights organizations . |
| 25 | The first mechanical horse experiments carried out at Wolverton were in 1929 , their remit being to find a quickly detachable tractor and semi-trailer . |
| 26 | Among the many experiments carried out at Warwick , there is one of particular note : the discovery that skin can respond to odours — even those we can not smell . |
| 27 | Likewise , we can respond to highly diluted fragrances even though we may not be able to smell them ( these are conclusions drawn from the results of other experiments carried out at Warwick ) . |
| 28 | Some practical experiments carried out by Mayo in the early 1930s produced results of interest to the project manager . |
| 29 | Every other kind of map must be a ‘ map-to-read ’ and requires some study ; it is implicit in experiments carried out by Kraak ( 1989 ) that such maps are not suitable for temporary display on a computer screen . |
| 30 | Some recent experiments carried out by Corey Goodman in Stanford , California and his colleagues suggest that in insects a small group of pioneer cells may provide a labelled ‘ streetmap ’ along which the developing neurons can navigate by using a simple set of directions to locate their specific targets . |