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

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31 The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia .
32 Until post-war reconstruction began in the 1950s and early 1960s , most building projects were carried out in the traditional manner , with an architect designing the building and managing the contract , a quantity surveyor preparing bills of quantities , valuations and a final account , and a general contractor who actually constructed the building .
33 The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century .
34 The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages .
35 But most cattle thefts were carried out in the interior of the Low Country , Kurunagala , and in the districts bordering these two areas , where they were organized by wealthy and powerful men .
36 Our case studies of casual working were carried out in the hotels and catering industry where a large proportion of the casual labour force is to be found .
37 Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study .
38 These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex .
39 Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary .
40 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 .
41 Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth .
42 One possible reason for the difference between Chapman 's and our results is that their experiments were all performed in the presence of 5 mM glutamine ( M Chapman , personal communication ) where our experiments were carried out in the absence of glutamine .
43 Several case studies were carried out in the 1970s , of which the Liverpool Inner Area Study ( 1975 ) is of particular interest .
44 All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name .
45 According to this view the democratic political revolutions were carried out by a new class — the bourgeoisie — which was formed in the process of development of commercial and industrial capitalism ; and the future of democracy would be vitally affected by the inherent tendencies of capitalist production and the relation between the bourgeoisie and the other new class in capitalist society — the proletariat .
46 Data recording and assessment of results were carried out by a member of the unit who did not participate in endoscopic treatment or looked after the patients .
47 The nationalization of the railways , the creation of the state holding company INI , the acquisition of a major state shareholding in the telephone company , were carried out by a repressive authoritarian regime which had crushed organized labour .
48 In Belfast , the first three of these ( in the inner-city areas ) were carried out by an outsider to Northern Ireland ( myself ) who as a consequence was not assigned a role in relation to local ethnic categories .
49 Other such developments were carried out by the Ashworth brothers at Bank Top , Egerton and New Eagley , where estates were provided with schools , libraries and chapels , and each house had its own garden and piped water .
50 Major petrographical studies on the rocks of various parts of Scotland were carried out by the Petrographer in London .
51 Commander David Tucker head of the anti-terrorist squad believes both attacks were carried out by the same IRA unit .
52 The Commission was to have not just the right to initiate and recommend policy to its executive partner , the Council of Ministers , but also the task of ensuring that the provisions of the treaty and policies emanating from the Council of Ministers were carried out by the other institutions and the member states .
53 he had hard all about the long sorties that were carried out by the Washingtons , so he was quite chuffed that his trip was for only three hours .
54 It is finally stated in the report that the police believed the rapes were carried out by the same man , who is described quite fully .
55 There was no limitation on the period of service overseas that a man could agree to undertake , and the crown was relieved of the burden of administration : recruiting , mustering and paying the troops were carried out by the officials of the magnates who made the contracts .
56 However , as the reader will see , few operations of this type were carried out by the SBS in the Mediterranean after 1943 .
57 The settlers ' attempts at agriculture were frustrated , except on the southern steppe frontier , by frozen subsoil and the sub-arctic climate , and as they were carried out by the primitive ‘ slash-and-burn ’ method , were highly destructive of the forest environment .
58 By Brig Scott 's account , " as far as I could see , during the next twenty four hours , all the arrangements in connection with the surrender and evacuation were carried out by the Yugoslavs speedily and efficiently " .
59 It was designed as a more effective replacement for the Police Complaints Board ( PCB ) which the public appeared to have lost faith in due to the fact that few complaints were ever substantiated , and that all investigations were carried out by the police themselves .
60 While the Supreme Soviet was not sitting , its functions were carried out by the Praesidium , a committee of Supreme Soviet officials and other members .
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