Example sentences of "be carry [adv prt] by [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Volunteers have been forced to leave the movement 's centrally situated shop in Skinnergate while renovations are carried out by council workers .
2 The spraying operations are carried out by hand , tractor and helicopter .
3 Special finishes are of course completed in the time-honoured fashion ; sunbursts and other fancy finishes are carried out by hand .
4 Discuss the main disadvantages of an economy in which incomes are paid in kind and transactions are carried out by barter .
5 BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Colombia was reported yesterday to be seeking the extradition of a suspected cocaine baron held in neighbouring Ecuador as a wave of bombings , believed to have been carried out by drug traffickers , continued .
6 This work has been carried out by water authorities , internal drainage boards , and many councils , in part to reduce flooding of roads and houses , but largely to increase farm yields .
7 No cause of death is given , but we may make an informed guess , for all that , that a man whose elder brother had been carried off by consumption was himself the victim of that ‘ white plague ’ which accounted for one-third of all deaths in the early years of the 19th century .
8 Some activities , distribution , haulage , advertising and marketing , may be carried through by specialist firms who also provide these services for other industries .
9 Most departments had their offices , though there were constant difficulties about telephones and electricity supplies , and very little in the way of fans ; communications between departments had to be carried on by messenger , for internal postal services were taking time to be reorganised .
10 The production of tapes for the composition contractor and the taking of security versions of current work will also be carried out by Computer Services .
11 On the other hand , if the simulation is to be carried out by computer a way must be found of getting the computer to generate random sequences of numbers such as would be obtained by throwing a dice a number of times .
12 ‘ They hope that the inquiry to be carried out by South Birmingham Health Authority will be a full inquiry and will ensure that errors such as they have experienced will not occur again .
13 There are also certain transactions , such as the alteration of the company 's articles of association , which may only be carried out by resolution of the shareholders .
14 The subscriber speaks into his telephone , and the process of tapping appears to be carried out by Post Office officials making recordings , with Post Office apparatus on Post Office premises , of the electrical impulses on Post Office wires provided by Post Office electricity .
15 A 100 per cent survey of the 145 households will be carried out by Market Research Scotland in March to see which landlord is preferred .
16 All the tasks such as keeping in touch with old friends , seeing to clothes , financial affairs , and dealing with problems within the home can be carried out by family members .
17 As I have already mentioned , nearly all of the work can be carried out by hand ; useful hand-tools include a coping saw , spokeshave ( for curved work ) scraper and sliding bevel , callipers to work out the thickness of curved sections , and a pair of sash cramps .
18 They may , for example , be an adjunct to the use of Taylorism , where fragmented work leads t o the use of particular types of organisation structure , whereas co-ordination of the same overall task , if it were carried out by craft workers on an integrated basis , might be carried out by means of a much simpler organisation structure .
19 Many of the initial assessments by doctors in this study were carried out by trainee psychiatrists who spent only six months with the team as part of their training ; had the proportion of assessments by consultant psychogeriatricians and clinical assistants in the sample been more representative , the agreements between team and research diagnoses might have been closer still .
20 Any vital duties were carried out by prison officers .
21 Any vital duties were carried out by prison officers .
22 The following analyses were carried out by routine methods : haemoglobin , sodium , potassium , magnesium , calcium , albumin , cholesterol , triglycerides , glucose , iron , folate , and vitamin B12 .
23 This position will involve the day-to-day management of a number of electrochemically based projects being carried out by PhD Students and postdoctoral research fellows , embracing the study of bulk and interfacial properties of both liquid and solid electrodes and electrolytes .
24 By the blurring of the division between those needing residential care and those needing nursing home care this privatisation is being carried out by stealth and is often not recognised by those working with elderly people .
25 If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour .
26 ‘ Although the heavy work is carried out by landscape contractors I love it when I can get out and add a few personal touches , ’ she says .
27 Day-to-day running of the trust is carried out by specialist fund managers , often by merchant banks .
28 Capital punishment in Japan is carried out by hanging .
29 This sequence is carried out by hardware , which also checks that the stack pointer remains pointing at a location within the stack area .
30 By contrast with participant observation , some sociological research is carried out by observation alone .
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