The phrase 'the samples were sent' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used whenever you are writing about samples which have been sent to a destination. For example: "The samples were sent to the laboratory for testing."
The samples were sent to BaseClear (Leiden, the Netherlands) for sequencing of the cloned product using M13 forward primer (Luesken et al. 2011a).
The samples were sent to a laboratory in Ashland, Ore., for DNA testing.
Veitch said the samples were sent to Iowa State University to be tested and will be back next week.
5.12pm BST Four key factual findings from Ban's report, including "Eighty-five per cent of the blood samples tested positive for sarin": The samples were sent for analysis to four laboratories designated by the OPCW.
The test reports released by Congressional investigators showed that in many cases, the samples were sent for further testing, but it was generally unclear what the additional testing found.
The samples were sent to Dr. Terry Phillips, an immunochemist at George Washington University and at the Office of Research Services at the National Institutes of Health who uses sophisticated new techniques to fish tiny amounts of proteins out of blood samples.
For that, the samples were sent to Beth Shapiro, author of How to Clone a Mammoth and an expert on ancient DNA, whose paleogenomics lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, excavates animal bones in the Artic permafrost and has perfected methods for sequencing old DNA.
●Russian authorities operated a second, "shadow" laboratory on the outskirts of Moscow, with identical testing facilities as the WADA-sponsored one, in order to assist in "the cover-up of positive doping results". According to the report, it is suspected that Russian athletes were pre-screened at the shadow lab to make sure they passed before the samples were sent on to the official one.
The samples were sent to ZRT Laboratory and assayed by radioimmunoassay.
The samples were sent to Royal Life Science, Hyderabad, India; for GC-FAME analysis.
The samples were sent to the United States for chemical analysis.
