Example sentences of "was carried [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Samarkand , masons were active building a grand terminus ( which was to remain so only until the railway was carried through to Tashkent in 1898 ) . |
| 2 | The profit-making activity of the sub-licensees was carried on outside Hong Kong but the grant of the sub-licences took place in Hong Kong where the taxpayer operated . |
| 3 | A fruitless correspondence between Paton and Henderson was carried on throughout July 1931 . |
| 4 | Ogden 's craft was carried on by Christopher Caygill , who made brass-faced clocks with minute hands , and one of his apprentices , who married his master 's daughter , took over the business and made clocks with painted faces . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |
| 6 | The poll based on replies from 431 out of the 574 members of the General Synod was carried out during October . |
| 7 | This prospective study was carried out between January 1985 and December 1990 . |
| 8 | The Survival Study trial was carried out between September , 1989 , and December , 1991 , and the Health Study trial between June , 1990 , and August , 1991 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thus , our survey was ‘ retrospective ’ because the research was carried out between July and October 1985 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A major military reshuffle was carried out on Sept. 9 involving 557 senior officers down to the level of colonel . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A minor Cabinet reshuffle was carried out on Feb. 19 — the first since Namibia 's independence on March 21 , 1991 [ see pp. 37296-97 ] — when two new ministries were created . |
| 15 | An underground nuclear test , the first by the Soviet Union for almost a year , was carried out on Oct. 24 on Novaya Zemlya island inside the Arctic Circle . |
| 16 | A post mortem examination was carried out on Mr Brock and South Clwyd coroner John Hughes was informed . |
| 17 | The second government reshuffle in less than six weeks was carried out on Jan. 31 . |
| 18 | A nationwide census was carried out on Nov. 27-29 during which time almost the entire population was subject to a dawn-to-dusk curfew and all cross-border activity was prohibited . |
| 19 | When finally broken down , DEC 's 1992 figures are likely to show that an even greater percentage of its workstation business was carried out on VAX/VMS than in 1991 . |
| 20 | During these years the fire engine and appliances were kept in the recreation ground behind the present Fire Station , and training was carried out on Wednesday evenings on this ground . |
| 21 | A 10 hour traffic survey was carried out on Tuesday , 28th August as a result of which a pelican crossing can not be recommended . |
| 22 | A similar study was carried out at Baulking , Wiltshire . |
| 23 | Most of the Cotswold silk trade was carried out at Blockley , over some 200 years . |
| 24 | The sentence was carried out at Trier , but Priscillian 's body was carried back to Spain and buried in Galicia . |
| 25 | This was carried out at Smithfield . |
| 26 | In the late 1950s and early 1960s a survey of sources of radio waves from outer space was carried out at Cambridge by a group of astronomers led by Martin Ryle ( who had also worked with Bondi , Gold , and Hoyle on radar during the war ) . |
| 27 | In fact , Mendel 's work was carried out before Weismann 's , but it did not become part of the corpus of biology until later , so Weismann 's ideas will be discussed first . |
| 28 | This understanding of the role of education can partly be explained by the experience of the literacy campaign which was carried out throughout Nicaragua shortly after the revolution . |
| 29 | This study was carried out from March to December 1989 at the Kenyatta National Hospital , which is the only free public hospital in Nairobi , a city of 1.28 million residents . |
| 30 | It was carried out by Coun Anthony Abraham , whose Richmondshire District Council ward includes the hospital . |