Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] carried [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repairs to the existing masonry were carried out in matching brickwork and the purpose-made joinery of new windows and external doors has been retained in its natural colour under a clear sealant , rather than being painted , which might have detracted from the mellow textures of the renovated building ( Plate 51 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Doctors said the biopsy was carried out in a different part of the brain to where the rupture of the aneurysm occurred and was not responsible for the death . |
| 5 | Most of the deal was carried out in New York and this contributed to an air of confusion in the music press . |
| 6 | An experiment was carried out with a mixed age group of macaques . |
| 7 | An in vivo experiment was carried out with male Sprague-Dawley rats ( weight range 200–300 g ) as we previously reported . |
| 8 | This experiment was carried out in a dedicated growth room with walls well masked with charcoal-grey cartridge paper . |
| 9 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 10 | The Mujaheddin claimed that the murder was carried out by the Iranian embassy in Switzerland on the orders of the then Iranian President Khamenei . |
| 11 | An investigation into Ouko 's murder was carried out by police officers from the United Kingdom ; the results , handed over to the government in September , were not made public . |
| 12 | Within boxes , the forms were not kept in order , and so for this reason the search was carried out by inspecting the thesis titles , as well as by searching for individual ‘ D ’ numbers ( which were recorded in the Rolfe and Will lists ) . |
| 13 | Tea was carried out to us on a brass tray from the women 's quarters . |
| 14 | It has now emerged that the fraud was carried out by using the credit to pay back money to International Signal and Control as if it was the customer making stage payments on the contract . |
| 15 | Elongation of the transcript was carried out for 1,5 or 15 min , and was initiated by adjusting conditions to 2 mM of all four nucleotides and 400 mM KCl . |
| 16 | A major exploration programme was carried out between 1965 and 1973 by Exploration Ventures Ltd ( RioFinex and Consolidated Gold Fields ) and subsequently with Amax over the large basic-ultrabasic intrusions of Grampian Region in north-east Scotland The initial exploratory work is described by Rice ( 1975 ) . |
| 17 | A major life-extension programme was carried out on nearly half the Class 37 fleet , with a number of variants designed specifically for freight haulage and expected to survive into the next century . |
| 18 | A widespread training programme was carried out to help governors and schools staff to meet their new tasks and obligations . |
| 19 | The most extensive exploration programme was carried out by Exploration Ventures Ltd ( a joint venture between Consolidated Gold Fields and Rio Tinto-Zinc ) . |
| 20 | Research was carried out on the stability of such ferries , which took some time . |
| 21 | The research was carried out for a doctoral dissertation on the princely sum of £410 per annum ( this was the ‘ married woman 's ’ rate of postgraduate grant at the time , £120 lower than the full grant ) . |
| 22 | Thus , our survey was ‘ retrospective ’ because the research was carried out between July and October 1985 . |
| 23 | The research was carried out by Bridget Penhale , a hospital social work team leader in Norfolk and a member of BASW 's special interest group on ageing . |
| 24 | Less commissioned research was carried out in TMOS than in previous years , mainly because DOE let no new applied geological mapping contracts during the year , while several such contracts came to an end . |
| 25 | The research was carried out in two stages . |
| 26 | Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings . |
| 27 | The journal contains material of interest to historians concerned with late colonial Nigeria , and with the developments among the Nupe people and their neighbours at this time ; and material which illuminates how one body of anthropological field research was carried out against the background of colonial administration . |
| 28 | When the marriage of Henry and Constance was solemnised on 27th January 1186 , the ceremony was carried out by the Patriarch of Aquileia , who also crowned Henry as King of Italy . |
| 29 | A similar , but slightly expanded , study was carried out with British interpreters ( Kyle , Llewellyn-Jones and Woll , 1979 ) . |
| 30 | This study was carried out on behalf of the Norwich and Norfolk Co-operative Development Agency . |