Example sentences of "was carry [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Little wonder then that the Forest system was heartily detested by all classes of the king 's subjects , and that from the twelfth century onward a bitter and determined struggle was carried on between Crown and people for its abolition .
2 Whereupon Stoker , gifted with Dublin 's malice , wrote instead a novel — about a bloodsucking , ennobled gentleman whose business was carried on at night , in or around grand dramatic buildings .
3 His work on Linear B was carried on with flair by John Chadwick ( b.1920 ) .
4 The game was carried on in silence .
5 The war had required a high degree of economic planning , much of which was carried over into peacetime .
6 He was n't , so he did n't go right down , but was carried along under water .
7 The operation was carried out without negligence by the surgeon but the plaintiff was severely disabled as a result of damage to her spinal cord .
8 Laparotomy was carried out under ether anesthesia and cannulation of the bile duct was performed for continuous bile collection .
9 The survey was carried out as part of the government 's Food Advisory Committee 's review of food labelling .
10 This was carried out with thoroughness , but without success , by the Missing Research and Enquiry Service , and in 1948 the case was closed .
11 Elution was carried out with chloroform ( 30 ml ) and the entire eluate was evaporated under air at 60°C .
12 Immunocytochemistry was carried out on paraffin embedded tissue sections , using the following antibodies : ( a ) a rabbit antihuman lysozyme antiserum ( DAKO ) and ( b ) a mouse antihuman monoclonal antibody KP1 ( kindly provided by Dr D Y Mason ) , detecting a formalin resistant epitope of the CD68 cluster , a highly glycosylated intracellular protein expressed by most tissue macrophages .
13 The survey was carried out on behalf of Chosen Heritage by the independent research organisation Third Age International .
14 This study was carried out on behalf of the Norwich and Norfolk Co-operative Development Agency .
15 Landslip and rockfall problems in Kent and Yorkshire have been investigated , and specialised laboratory testing was carried out on material from onshore and offshore sites .
16 Is it not high time that a proper review was carried out of exacty what space exists throughout the Palace , so that we can use it well for the benefit of our constituents and for other purposes ?
17 A widespread training programme was carried out to help governors and schools staff to meet their new tasks and obligations .
18 In August 1952 the innocent-looking East and West Lyn rivers swept down into the Devon resort of Lynmouth , obliterating houses and removing all trace of the Beach Hotel , which was carried out to sea .
19 One house , inhabited by a British family called Tatlock , was carried out to sea whole .
20 In four ( 10% ) patients a precut papillotomy using a needle knife was carried out to gain access to the common bile duct .
21 Endoscopy was carried out after sedation , using an Olympus GIF-10 fibreoptic endscope .
22 Detective Supt Gareth Jones , deputy head of North Wales CID , has been called in to head the inquiry and a post-mortem examination was carried out by Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Waite .
23 He said arranging flowers and cleaning vases was carried out by crematorium staff and was becoming very time consuming .
24 The most extensive exploration programme was carried out by Exploration Ventures Ltd ( a joint venture between Consolidated Gold Fields and Rio Tinto-Zinc ) .
25 The first major test of the APT was carried out by Roll and Ross and published in 1980 .
26 Detectives dismissed the theory the attack was carried out by animal rights activists after the farm owner found the bodies of two pigs .
27 That survey , which was carried out by Research International and is the largest and most detailed survey ever commissioned by the Revenue , is now complete .
28 Universities can and have contributed to Geological Survey research , for example in producing the map and descriptive ‘ Memoir ’ ( this term is used with a specific meaning in geology ) for the Aberdeen area ( Sheet 77 ) , part of the survey work was carried out by Ph D students from the University of Aberdeen on contract to the Geological Survey .
29 The job was carried out by piece workers who did rather well financially from carrying out what was a pretty filthy job .
30 He claimed that he had been ‘ the master of ceremonies ’ , but The Builder report indicates that this role was carried out by Tite , although if Scott 's previous conclusion was correct , Donaldson did organize the delegation .
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