Example sentences of "[been] carried [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception .
2 The work has been carried out through a rolling programme covering 19 occupational areas and the results are published in the official journal of the EC .
3 REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place .
4 The main testing has been operational , but it has been carried out under a variety of conditions and the low-level sub-programs in particular have survived essentially unchanged through several changes to the program .
5 The most severe tests have already been carried out on a man and a woman , unconnected with the project , last week .
6 Until fairly recently , forestry has often been carried out on a very big scale , with tens of thousands of hectares being covered and public access made difficult .
7 Workflow software is able to recognise when a particular action has been carried out on a document and can then carry out other actions ( which were previously done manually ) by itself .
8 In tonight 's programme , Laura and her parents discover whether she is suitable for the surgery , which has only been carried out on a handful of other patients and is still at the experimental stage .
9 Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised .
10 Some rural districts , however , still lack separate housing departments staffed by professionally trained housing managers , and in extreme instances allocations have been carried out on a more or less ad hoc basis by local councillors .
11 In the end , he had to settle for a survey which had been carried out on a national scale by a well-known agency .
12 Previous abridgements of the Philosophical Transactions had been carried out on a piecemeal basis , whereas Baddam 's version provided continuity and uniformity for the first time ( see Nichols 's summary of them in the above , pp. 482–3 ) .
13 Sometimes the act has been carried out in a hostile fashion that causes maximum distress to the staff .
14 The situation at the moment in the field of research in homoeopathy is that much encouraging and interesting work demonstrating effects of homoeopathic potencies has been carried out in a wide variety of laboratory and clinical models .
15 It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin .
16 Conversations with pupils about ‘ handicap ’ have already been carried out in a pilot study .
17 We are also able to certificate any module where the training and assessment has been carried out in a language other than English .
18 SCOTVEC can certificate any module where training and assessment has been carried out in a language other than English ; an endorsement appears on the Learning Outcomes Statement accompanying the Record of Education and Training indicating the language used .
19 The Minister also said that the medical examination had been carried out in a sympathetic and professional manner .
20 A survey of these structures on the line has been carried out by a firm of consulting engineers , showing that only one minor bridge requires any structural repairs .
21 A review of the constitutional position of the police and the ‘ arrangements for their control and administration ’ , had been carried out by a Royal Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Willink whose final report had been published as early as May 1962 .
22 This work has been carried out by a small group of volunteers ( three to four persons ) .
23 The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings .
24 Many databases which use SQL provide a QBE interface so that inexperienced users can formulate queries quickly ( the data definition will usually have been carried out by a more experienced user using SQL and complex queries will also use SQL ) .
25 Detectives believe most of the UDA/UFF killings have been carried out by a unit from the Shankill district .
26 He said the raid had been carried out by a ‘ commando group armed with heavy weapons ’ which had attacked ‘ precise targets ’ .
27 The few studies that have been undertaken have been carried out from a management perspective in terms of stock management or to quantity overall use of library , materials apart from items recorded in circulation statistics .
28 One unguarded remark by Byrkin , one remark that had been carried back by a man with innocence on his face to those who would judge Byrkin .
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