Example sentences of "be carry on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd told him his wife , young Jo , had been carrying on with other men , other women , nuns , rapists , ex-Nazi war criminals , you name it . |
| 2 | Despite these difficulties there are almost as many children now attending primary schools as there were before the invasion , and many teachers are carrying on without regular salaries . |
| 3 | But the Prince and Princess of Wales never let their public face slip and even on the day of the announcement were carrying on with planned engagements . |
| 4 | It is only in the states of Western Europe , in the countries of the British Commonwealth , in the United States of America , and in a few Latin-American states that government is carried on with due regard to the limitations imposed by a Constitution ; it is only in these states that truly ‘ constitutional government ’ can be said to exist … |
| 5 | The widest definition of the Crown in the cases is that of Lord Diplock in Town Investments Ltd. v. Department of Environment who said of the term that it is ‘ appropriate to embrace both collectively and individually all the Ministers of the Crown and parliamentary secretaries under whose direction the administrative work of government is carried on by civil servants in the various government departments ’ . |
| 6 | is carried on by private study under supervision . |
| 7 | ‘ The hospital , ’ concluded the inspector , ‘ is carrying on under extreme difficulties with a shortage of nursing and domestic staff , and with rebuilding and adaptation going on . |
| 8 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 9 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |