Example sentences of "are [adv] carried [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Again , many decisions which are successfully carried out in a given period may not turn out to have been the best possible courses of action .
2 The cost of choice for the majority is the absence of choice for the minority who will never afford to buy , … ‘ the Right to Buy ’ and growth of owner-occupation are effectively carried out on the backs of poor people .
3 Some sociologists have researched ‘ counter school ’ youth cultures , and how they are naturally carried over onto the shopfloor .
4 It is accepted that such surveys are only carried out by employees of the building society in the case of the Woolwich Building Society , so that the question at issue can only arise in regard to the structural surveys provided by that building society .
5 There 's a great deal of double counting that takes place , it might be that some honourable members in this house actually appear upon two registers , one in London and one within the area in which they reside , normally within their constituency and many people are merely carried over from past registers , without any serious canvassing taking place to find out whether they are the people to be on the registers or whether someone else should be put in their place .
6 Hence , such experiments are normally carried out in a laboratory permanently equipped with a wind-tunnel ( the name for any system providing a working air stream ) , a water flume or channel ( similar systems with water ) , or a towing tank ( a large tank of stationary water through which an obstacle can be moved ) .
7 As modern weathering masks many of these textures , petrographic studies are best carried out on subsurface samples wherever possible , particularly if samples are to be chemically analysed later .
8 With Norwegian jacquard , the colour changes , whether made with the colour changer or manually with the jacquard claw , are always carried out at the left side of the machine .
9 LEFT Excavations are usually carried out on sites scheduled for development , so that the archaeological evidence can never be displayed on the site .
10 Despite everything , a lot of burglaries are still carried out via the front door .
11 This is despite the fact that economic calculations are still carried out in ‘ prices ’ .
12 Hence , chemical studies are confidently carried out on one or at most a very few instances of the materials that chemists are analysing and synthesizing .
13 In order to generate sales successfully a number of secondary functions are also carried out by most salespeople .
14 Changes are also carried out from above , if at all ( Bettelheim 1978 ) .
15 For Tagalogs , it is a rather amoral possibility : violent individuals are respected , but there is a less than human quality about them and violent acts are often carried out under the cover of a real or assumed drunkenness .
16 Popular discussions of the success or failure of ministers are often carried out in terms of their personalities and their experience .
17 Minor procedures are often carried out by junior surgical trainees and , increasingly , by general practitioners and dermatologists and in accident and emergency departments .
18 Structural studies within and across chronostratigraphic boundaries are often carried out by means of geochemical , isotope geochemical , or other analyses of rocks collected in the course of fieldwork , during which field relations between mappable rock units will have been recorded .
19 The question then arises as to how this pragmatic enterprise differs , if it differs at all , from the kinds of activity which are customarily carried out under the name of research .
20 Operations are now carried out on special trolleys which are hinged to allow the head to drop below the feet , ensuring a continuing blood supply to the brain in the event of sudden loss of blood pressure .
21 Many tasks performed in the office necessitate reading , and are frequently carried out in noisy environments .
22 The toughest quality checks are then carried out on your finished carpet .
23 These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in .
24 These results could produce great profits , and are therefore carried out under the aegis of large firms , which hope to benefit from them .
25 As my hon. Friend will know and as hon. Members will hardly need to be reminded , a large number of roles are currently carried out by the Royal Auxiliary Air Force .
26 Under the overseas person exemption , many types of investment business which are actually carried on in the UK ( albeit from a non-UK office ) , are in effect treated as carried on outside the UK for the purposes of the FSA ( and so do not require authorisation under the FSA ) if the firm does not have a UK office from which it carries on investment business and : ( 1 ) The firm deals with or through , or arranges transactions with , an FSA-authorised person , such as a UK stockbroker , or an exempted person , such as a listed money market institution , acting within the terms of its exemption ( para 26 of Sched 1 ) ; this applies even if that person is an affiliate ; ( 2 ) the firm did not solicit the business in contravention of the FSA 's restrictions on the issue of investment advertisements and cold calling ( para 27 of Sched 1 ) .
27 Chemical reactions are commonly carried out in open vessels such as beakers and test-tubes .
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