Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] carried [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 All electroporation steps were carried out at 4°C .
2 The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments .
3 He said arranging flowers and cleaning vases was carried out by crematorium staff and was becoming very time consuming .
4 In situ hybridisation with the lysozyme RNA probes was carried out with minor modifications of a standard protocol .
5 By the end of the Meiji period control was focused in a highly centralized state whose functions were carried out through Western style political , administrative and judicial institutions operating in the name of the emperor .
6 While the Supreme Soviet was not sitting , its functions were carried out by the Praesidium , a committee of Supreme Soviet officials and other members .
7 Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary .
8 The two trials were carried out in adjacent populations in West Africa ; one looked in detail at the effect of vitamin A supplementation on morbidity and the other at its effect on mortality .
9 The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia .
10 Further extensive trials were carried out before the first Hip and Thigh Diet was published in 1988 .
11 Similar studies of five countries were carried out for USAID in 1983 .
12 The following evaluations were carried out in connection with this programme .
13 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 .
14 Any vital duties were carried out by prison officers .
15 Any vital duties were carried out by prison officers .
16 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 .
17 Analyses were carried out in Navrongo and London with dBASE III+ , Epi Info 5.00 , SPSS PC+ 4.0 , and GLIM 3.77 .
18 The following analyses were carried out by routine methods : haemoglobin , sodium , potassium , magnesium , calcium , albumin , cholesterol , triglycerides , glucose , iron , folate , and vitamin B12 .
19 After this , regular endoscopic checks at three to 12 monthly intervals were carried out with reinjection as , and when , varices recurred .
20 Re-mapping of economically important areas was carried out during and after the War , and much of the subsequent work has had an economic focus , restricted in the main to the highly populated Midland Valley of Scotland , which , perhaps not surprisingly , contains the country 's major economic mineral deposits — coal , oil-shale , fireclay , and bulk minerals , such as roadstone , building stone , limestone for cement and agriculture .
21 Inactivation of the N25 or UV5 promoters was carried out by restriction digestion with Dra 1 or BstN 1 respectively , as previously described ( 12,15 ) .
22 Analysis of covariance for possible factors affecting mean hearing thresholds was carried out for each of the four different types of ear .
23 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 .
24 Because the assaults were carried out by passengers — the Japanese word literally means ‘ honourable guests ’ — there was no question of resorting to legal action , the official explained .
25 They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank .
26 There was no limitation on the period of service overseas that a man could agree to undertake , and the crown was relieved of the burden of administration : recruiting , mustering and paying the troops were carried out by the officials of the magnates who made the contracts .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Commander David Tucker head of the anti-terrorist squad believes both attacks were carried out by the same IRA unit .
30 Valuations of the Group 's Irish and United Kingdom land and buildings were carried out at 31 December 1992 by .
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