Example sentences of "is carried " in BNC.

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1 It is not always realised how little spinning is carried out during the test flying of a new type of glider .
2 When the research is carried out by academics from outside , critical analysis creates enormous tensions .
3 Niacin aids blood circulation , which means that protein is carried to the muscles more efficiently , and also helps muscle recovery by carrying waste products away more quickly .
4 But the sunrise of impending suicide bathes him and others in fiery metaphysical comedy ; , ‘ be as free as you like , ’ Peter Verkhovensky tells him , ‘ so long as you do n't change your mind ’ — that is ‘ so long as your entirely free intention is carried out ’ .
5 The calibration is carried out by mounting the magnetometer core centrally in the coils and adjusting the peak-to-peak output while reversing the coil current , set to a constant value appropriate to the range being calibrated .
6 And the process by which the contextualizing is carried out would itself invite interrogation and theorization ; Marxists committed to ‘ cultural materialism ’ would be impatient of a form of contextualizing founded in the history of ideas .
7 It is also intended that a survey of a sample of the membership is carried out by questionnaire as well as consultation meetings at Area and Branch level .
8 Its administration is carried out by a staff of several hundred who work under the direction of the general council .
9 If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour .
10 A. The fact of the matter is that medical examination is carried out to see if they have any communicable disease .
11 It 's odd by current supercar standards because as BMW 's 300bhp V12 engine was never meant to be a stressed item — it is carried in a subframe sling — but otherwise it looks like it could be built tomorrow .
12 The individual , not a supervisor or the speed of a conveyor belt , decides the rate at which the task is carried out ; this is termed a ‘ self-paced task ’
13 Spraying is carried out with a coarse spray at low pressure .
14 Rather more in line with British cinema 's future disdain for anyone outside the middle classes is Williamson 's Two Little Waifs ( 1905 ) , in which two adult gypsies are left to the flames while their daughter is carried off to her convalescence in a suburban garden .
15 ‘ Yes it is , provided the shooting is carried out in a responsible manner .
16 When prototypes have satisfied the OR Staff , production is carried out by the Procurement Executive of the Ministry of Defence , using commercial contracts of a number of different types such as ‘ fixed price ’ , ‘ single tender ’ , and the much criticised ‘ cost-plus ’ , which is used when the technical risks are too high , the contractors able to tender too few , or the time too short for normal competitive tendering .
17 In a ‘ sundown set' ’ dolphins are encircled late in the day , so that all or part of the backdown procedure is carried out during darkness .
18 Today 90% of America 's domestic passenger traffic is carried by the eight largest airlines .
19 Already , roughly half the world 's oil is carried by one-tanker companies , whose entire assets founder with a single wreck .
20 Unless replenished , many beaches gradually disappear as their sand is carried away into deep water .
21 If that agreement is carried through , new alliances may form as the election nears .
22 Some of the energy given off is carried away by the electron , which is detectable , some by the neutrino , which is not .
23 The intellectual exploration of the Christian faith , the careful critical examination of the Bible ( however reverently the task is carried out ) is not for the ‘ true ’ Bible student .
24 When petrological thin-sectioning ( see glossary ) is carried out , many separate items of data may be collected from each artefact studied , making it difficult to see those groupings of artefacts that have features in common .
25 I will describe in a moment how the decoding is carried out , but first , a word about what kind of code it is .
26 If the effect of use and disuse is to alter the nature of the proteins in the body , and if the replicable information passed on to future generations is carried by DNA , then Weismann has to be right if the central dogma is right .
27 The transformation is carried out by organelles called chloroplasts .
28 As Lord Armstrong , Sir Robin 's predecessor , put it in an unusually candid interview for BBC radio 's Analysis programme last year , it would be a ‘ primary objective ’ of the Queen and her advisers — ‘ and , one would hope , the politicians concerned ’ — to ensure that the government of Britain is carried on .
29 Much of her care is carried out by her parents , Mary and Shaun , who have been shown how to use a suction machine and to spot trouble .
30 The reversal operation is carried out as a day treatment under local anaesthetic at a cost of £950 plus another £50 to £100 for pathology services .
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