Example sentences of "be carry [adv] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Psychologists theorizing about animal Umwelten need to ask what such inferences might be , what is the perceptual evidence in which the animal 's concepts are anchored , and what are the motor activities which test for them or which are carried out on the basis of conditional tests defined in terms of them .
2 Using a word processor , all corrections are carried out on the screen before a document is printed .
3 The October revolution had been carried through on the assumption that Russia , although a relatively backward country and hardly ‘ ripe ’ for revolution in a Marxist sense , could help to bring about a European and later a worldwide transition to a communist social order .
4 Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible .
5 As she points out : Remarkably little research has been carried out on the question of how these filters operate , and by whom they are operated , yet any policies aimed at harmonizing the interests of agriculture , conservation and recreation in the countryside must be based upon an understanding of this problem .
6 CHECKED-BY a check has been carried out on the module at this point , probably as part of a quality inspection
7 A special study has been carried out on the need to balance environmental improvements with potential disruption of essential traffic .
8 A special study has been carried out on the need to balance environmental improvements with potential disruption of essential traffic .
9 Such public procurement or purchasing has in the past not been carried out on the basis of buying the cheapest and/or the best .
10 Strengthening and repair operations have been carried out on the bridge from time to time , including the addition of steel cables to assist the original chains .
11 Many detailed studies have been carried out on the nature of the consumption relationship and all seem to agree that , for the community as a whole , consumption is related in some way to income .
12 A great deal of valuable work has been carried out on the interview itself .
13 Many experiments have been carried out on the perception of stress , and it is clear that many different sound characteristics are important in making a syllable recognisably stressed .
14 Exploration has also been carried out on the ophiolite complexes of the Lizard , Ballantrae and Shetland where minor PGE enrichment has been discovered .
15 Angelica 's thinking that a bag of garbage has probably been carried along on the night swell and has become caught up amongst the pillars and the metal cross-tics ; there will always be somebody who 'll think that a couple of heavy stones and a drop out over the deepest part of the lake are an adequate way of disposing of all their empty cans and peelings and plate-scrapings .
16 It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter .
17 Tug felt the call to join her , to leap to his feet and let himself be carried up on the tide , into a high and heroic world .
18 But , above all , more intensive studies need to be carried out on the pottery of the second half of the fourth century to ensure a greater refinement in dating .
19 The MEng project will be carried out on the sponsor 's premises .
20 Staff training : this should be carried out on the day of commencement or the day immediately preceding .
21 Instructions contained in the owner 's manual state that adjustment should be carried out on the tip opposite to the direction of turn by reducing the angle of incidence , one setting at a time , following which a flight test must be carried out .
22 SPAR 's behaviour seems better if two conditions apply : that the reasoner is known to be less reliable than the linguistic part of the system , as it might be if the texts processed describe a relatively open domain ; and that , as for example , in a machine translation task , no further non-linguistic processing will be carried out on the reading accepted .
23 Although much work remains to be carried out on the coach , including repairs to windows and roof , restoration of interior compartments and finally repainting in L & SWR salmon pink and brown livery , it is hoped to complete the restoration within a year where the LSWR carriage will join the TVR coach and the two GWR coaches to form a very unique vintage train and to move the Gwili further up the valley .
24 Most interviews , including radio , can be carried out on the telephone , with the reporter asking a few prepared questions .
25 But numerous patronymics of later formation have lasted — Johnson , Jackson , Peterson , Lawson , FitzPayne — perhaps to a total of more than a hundred and fifty , and to this day there are useful studies to be carried out on the distribution patterns of such rarities as Mattimoe = relative of Matthew .
26 shortlisting should be carried out on the basis of a previously agreed person specification detailing the qualifications , experience and skills necessary to do the job ;
27 Segmentation This may be carried out on the basis of ( i ) intuition techniques and product and interpretation ; or ( ii ) use of market research positioning data ( suitably re-arranged and interpreted ) ; or ( iii ) using an analysis of attribute sets .
28 They specified modifications which must be carried out on the ship before it will be allowed to sail again .
29 Following complaints from the Local Authority , repairs had to be carried out on the paving between the rails on the Tooting line , early in 1912 .
30 Experiments will be carried out on the nature and development of the strategies that reasoners learn to construct , and on the sources of difficulty in making meta-deductions .
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