Example sentences of "[was/were] carry [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not believe us , and were carried on to Banbury . |
| 2 | Two main lines were carried on by Richard Chaloner , cooper , and George , the youngest son who inherited the cottage and smithy that his father had erected on a piece of waste land east of the church , together with the lease of 3 acres of land enclosed from Myddlewood . |
| 3 | Major land surveys were carried out for Wimpey Minerals at Isley and Newark and a further contract of 1/2500 maps for the Ordnance Survey was successfully completed . |
| 4 | Similar studies of five countries were carried out for USAID in 1983 . |
| 5 | Experiments were carried out at Pitlake junction with an electric induction frog setting device , from 18 January 1947 . |
| 6 | The aircraft was designated the W-3 and initial flight tests were carried out at Abbotsinch near Glasgow on July 9 , 1936 . |
| 7 | Today Mark joined his colleagues for a training session in Armagh during which fitness tests were carried out on Mark and John Grimley , Ciaran McGurk and Gerard Houlahan . |
| 8 | Several trial runs were carried out on Anerley Hill , to test the special anti-run-back brakes , with which they were fitted , using trolleybus No. 65 , which was purposely dewired several times on the hill to make sure that the brake really worked and for the benefit of the press . |
| 9 | Further Party raids were carried out into April . |
| 10 | In connection with the Festival of Britain Exhibition that was to be held at South Bank in 1951 , some major road works were carried out between Westminster Bridge and Waterloo Station , streets in that area being made ‘ one way ’ at the same time . |
| 11 | The executions were carried out under Sharia ( Islamic religious ) law , the official said . |
| 12 | Analyses were carried out in Navrongo and London with dBASE III+ , Epi Info 5.00 , SPSS PC+ 4.0 , and GLIM 3.77 . |
| 13 | Although case studies were carried out in Scotland as well as in England , the report makes no estimate of the level of investment that could be released north of the Border . |
| 14 | Nine sweeps , each involving three hundred officers , were carried out in February and March 1988 . |
| 15 | Six major neighbourhood studies were carried out in Philadelphia between 1972 and 1976 , utilizing a range of information-seeking techniques : |
| 16 | After the appointment of the new government in May 1990 [ see pp. 37445-46 ] , two reshuffles were carried out in June and November ; the most significant appointment was that of Selemani Muana Yile as a Deputy First State Commissioner in place of Nzanda Buana Kalemba on Nov. 30 . |
| 17 | The earliest studies were carried out in Kenya , which led policy-makers to suggest self-employment as the answer to lack of formal sector employment ( King 1979 ) . |
| 18 | Two national surveys of District General Managers ( DGMs ) were carried out in November 1990 and January 1992 , paralleled by surveys of all acute providers in the West Midlands Region with more intensive study of four case study districts in the same region ( Appleby et al. |
| 19 | Other important investigations were carried out by Phillips alone into the determination of alcoholic strength and the use of methyl alcohol to denature ethanol . |
| 20 | The assessments for DesignCare and BridgeCare were carried out by SGS Yarsley International Certification Services Limited . |
| 21 | Tommaso Soldati was the stuccoist for the beautiful sala terrena — a sort of cross between a porte cochère and atmospheric garden room — and frescos were carried out by J. J. Stevens of Steinfels when , in 1717–24 , the palace was in the hands of the Kolowrats of Liebstein . |
| 22 | The most famous studies of this kind were carried out by Simon Kuznets in the 1940s for the United States ( 1869–1928 ) . |
| 23 | The interior renovations were carried out by Whitecroft Design , specialists in display who also build Stoddard 's exhibition stands for ‘ Interior Design International ’ , ‘ Harrogate ’ and ‘ Decorex ’ the three main annual exhibitions . |
| 24 | The tests were carried out by Coopers and Lybrand who apparently found that Borland Quattro Pro for Windows outscored both Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 in 6 out of 10 categories . |
| 25 | Delhi was sacked and many of the Moghul treasures were carried back to Iran , including a Peacock Throne , which was lost en route and then copied by Iranian craftsmen . |
| 26 | At Samarkand , masons were active building a grand terminus ( which was to remain so only until the railway was carried through to Tashkent in 1898 ) . |
| 27 | The profit-making activity of the sub-licensees was carried on outside Hong Kong but the grant of the sub-licences took place in Hong Kong where the taxpayer operated . |
| 28 | A fruitless correspondence between Paton and Henderson was carried on throughout July 1931 . |
| 29 | Ogden 's craft was carried on by Christopher Caygill , who made brass-faced clocks with minute hands , and one of his apprentices , who married his master 's daughter , took over the business and made clocks with painted faces . |
| 30 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |