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

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1 The reforms of Joseph II ( 1780–90 ) , which were carried through in the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment , included a secularisation of education and the recognition of the rights of the Slav subjects of the Empire to instruct in their own language .
2 No clear distinction could yet be made between the wholesale and retail trades that were carried on in the ‘ shops ’ in the historic centre of the city .
3 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 .
4 The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century .
5 The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study .
9 These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex .
10 Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary .
11 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 .
12 Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth .
13 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 .
14 Several case studies were carried out in the 1970s , of which the Liverpool Inner Area Study ( 1975 ) is of particular interest .
15 All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name .
16 The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 .
17 It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals .
18 He was not involved in any way with the mining that was carried on in the surrounding area , but he was greatly affected by the frequent serious and often fatal accidents suffered by the miners through premature blasting explosions .
19 Their style was exceptionally clear and one was carried along in the unfolding of an argument which seemed as majestically inevitable as the development of a Bach fugue .
20 The final honing was carried out in the usual fashion , using slipstones and strop .
21 Also in deference to their preferences , the building was carried out in the Early English Gothic style , its structural brickwork being faced externally with Kentish ragstone dressed with Bath stone at corners and door and window openings .
22 Consequently , in 1983 a more comprehensive survey was carried out in the area with two objectives , — to map structure in reconnaissance form , and to look for evidence of Westphalian strata with a view to coal development .
23 In later centuries the rate of clearance may have slowed , and in the 17th and 18th centuries a great deal of replanting was carried out in the formation of the large parklands .
24 Thus , some type of course assessment if not programme evaluation was carried out in the majority of cases .
25 When the execution was carried out in the Fort of Penha de França , the people of Madeira showed their disgust by turning their heads away from the fort whenever they passed it .
26 This was carried out in the form of a maze of plants surrounding Her Majesty 's Coat of Arms .
27 The study was carried out in the West Berkshire and the Basingstoke and North Hampshire District Health Authorities .
28 The assay was carried out in the presence of 1 µl of pre-immune rabbit serum ( track 1 ) or 0.5 µl ( track 2 ) or 1 µl ( track 3 ) of polyclonal rabbit antibody to Oct-1 .
29 The work reported in the present thesis was carried out in the context of the development of a complete recognition system ( Boes et al , 1989 ) .
30 About 1,500 rebels were thought to have taken part in the assault which was carried out in the face of sustained bombing from the Air Force .
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