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

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1 The reforms of Joseph II ( 1780–90 ) , which were carried through in the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment , included a secularisation of education and the recognition of the rights of the Slav subjects of the Empire to instruct in their own language .
2 Preindustrial aristocratic attitudes were carried over into an industrial age .
3 Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off .
4 Besides a number of activities which took place at a regional level , many more were carried on throughout the year by its corporate and personal members .
5 No clear distinction could yet be made between the wholesale and retail trades that were carried on in the ‘ shops ’ in the historic centre of the city .
6 Extensive geological and geophysical surveys were carried out over the next two years , and the governments negotiated with an international group of banks interested in financing the construction of the tunnel .
7 The deportations were carried out despite a formal request from the UNHCR that Britain be more flexible in the application of its asylum rules in the interest of ‘ international burden sharing ’ .
8 It is likely the alterations were carried out towards the end of a relatively prosperous period , before a collapse in trade , between 1810 and 1820 .
9 The tower was off limits , after all , and someone was just ensuring that the Baron 's orders were carried out to the letter .
10 Emergency repairs were carried out to the hotel and houses , many of which had damaged roofs and broken windows , throughout yesterday .
11 Whippings in Sri Lanka were carried out with a cat-o-nine-tails and flayed the back of the prisoner , scarring him for life .
12 Subsequent measurements were carried out with the 76-m Lovell telescope at frequencies between 408MHz and 1,660 MHz .
13 Instead , studies were carried out with the focus now on the listener rather than the speaker .
14 Furthermore , no alteration of the protein pattern in the electrophoresis was observed when the competitions were carried out with the mutated oligonucleotides ( results not shown ) , demonstrating that the binding of the proteins to the oligonucleotide was specific .
15 Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane .
16 Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years .
17 In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed .
18 The Labour MP for Jarrow said investigations into alleged abuse of the postal system were carried out as a matter of routine .
19 Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start .
20 Detailed observations were carried out on the behaviour of the students during the actual course , and both students and teachers were interviewed as to their feelings in participating in this form of instruction .
21 At Pearl Harbor itself exactly at 0800hrs morning colours were carried out on the moored ships , the first wave of enemy aircraft was sighted but not suspected .
22 ‘ No fatigue tests were carried out on the B 707–300 series horizontal stabiliser structure prior to USA or UK certification .
23 Therefore , in order to minimise the risk of falsely rejecting an existing difference , p values less than 0.05 were considered as significant although multiple tests were carried out on the same data .
24 Age is unlikely to have influenced the findings or the conclusions of our study , because all the tests and comparisons were carried out on the same group of patients .
25 On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days .
26 Two further operations to her left wrist were carried out on the twenty seventh of January nineteen eighty nine and the twenty sixth of April nineteen eighty nine .
27 In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals .
28 Further extensive trials were carried out before the first Hip and Thigh Diet was published in 1988 .
29 The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments .
30 These producers were carried out in a darkened room .
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