Example sentences of "[was/were] carry out [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Similar studies of five countries were carried out for USAID in 1983 .
3 Experiments were carried out at Pitlake junction with an electric induction frog setting device , from 18 January 1947 .
4 The aircraft was designated the W-3 and initial flight tests were carried out at Abbotsinch near Glasgow on July 9 , 1936 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Further Party raids were carried out into April .
8 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 .
9 The executions were carried out under Sharia ( Islamic religious ) law , the official said .
10 Analyses were carried out in Navrongo and London with dBASE III+ , Epi Info 5.00 , SPSS PC+ 4.0 , and GLIM 3.77 .
11 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 .
12 Nine sweeps , each involving three hundred officers , were carried out in February and March 1988 .
13 Six major neighbourhood studies were carried out in Philadelphia between 1972 and 1976 , utilizing a range of information-seeking techniques :
14 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 .
15 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 ) .
16 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.
17 Other important investigations were carried out by Phillips alone into the determination of alcoholic strength and the use of methyl alcohol to denature ethanol .
18 The assessments for DesignCare and BridgeCare were carried out by SGS Yarsley International Certification Services Limited .
19 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 .
20 The most famous studies of this kind were carried out by Simon Kuznets in the 1940s for the United States ( 1869–1928 ) .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 The poll based on replies from 431 out of the 574 members of the General Synod was carried out during October .
24 This prospective study was carried out between January 1985 and December 1990 .
25 The Survival Study trial was carried out between September , 1989 , and December , 1991 , and the Health Study trial between June , 1990 , and August , 1991 .
26 The people settled in the Medway valley almost certainly knew of the Romans before this date as a great deal of trade was carried out between Britain and the continent .
27 Thus , our survey was ‘ retrospective ’ because the research was carried out between July and October 1985 .
28 Mexico , which had relations with the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1930 , was courted by Alexandra Kollontai ( ambassador 1926–9 ) , and trade was carried out with Argentina and Uruguay despite the acknowledged difficulties of transporting goods across the Equator .
29 A major military reshuffle was carried out on Sept. 9 involving 557 senior officers down to the level of colonel .
30 It was decided to remove the guns with their powder and shot to lighten the ship ; this was carried out on Sunday 's high tide .
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