Example sentences of "were carry [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 They did not believe us , and were carried on to Banbury .
2 Two main lines were carried on by Richard Chaloner , cooper , and George , the youngest son who inherited the cottage and smithy that his father had erected on a piece of waste land east of the church , together with the lease of 3 acres of land enclosed from Myddlewood .
3 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 .
4 Similar studies of five countries were carried out for USAID in 1983 .
5 Experiments were carried out at Pitlake junction with an electric induction frog setting device , from 18 January 1947 .
6 The aircraft was designated the W-3 and initial flight tests were carried out at Abbotsinch near Glasgow on July 9 , 1936 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Further Party raids were carried out into April .
10 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 .
11 The executions were carried out under Sharia ( Islamic religious ) law , the official said .
12 Analyses were carried out in Navrongo and London with dBASE III+ , Epi Info 5.00 , SPSS PC+ 4.0 , and GLIM 3.77 .
13 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 .
14 Nine sweeps , each involving three hundred officers , were carried out in February and March 1988 .
15 Six major neighbourhood studies were carried out in Philadelphia between 1972 and 1976 , utilizing a range of information-seeking techniques :
16 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 .
17 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 ) .
18 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.
19 Other important investigations were carried out by Phillips alone into the determination of alcoholic strength and the use of methyl alcohol to denature ethanol .
20 The assessments for DesignCare and BridgeCare were carried out by SGS Yarsley International Certification Services Limited .
21 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 .
22 The most famous studies of this kind were carried out by Simon Kuznets in the 1940s for the United States ( 1869–1928 ) .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Delhi was sacked and many of the Moghul treasures were carried back to Iran , including a Peacock Throne , which was lost en route and then copied by Iranian craftsmen .
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