Example sentences of "be carry on [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be the case where they are brought under common control or ownership or when one of the enterprises ceases to be carried on as a result of an agreement between the enterprises to prevent competition . |
| 2 | As the search for a suitable guitarist proved fruitless , it appeared that The Smiths would not be carrying on as a unit . |
| 3 | Sensationally , The Smiths would not be carrying on as a band at all . |
| 4 | All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels . |
| 5 | Ministers are a bunch of desperadoes , and they are carrying on like a bunch of stoneheads . |
| 6 | Two were carrying on at a polytechnic , and one was training to be a teacher at a college of Higher Education . |
| 7 | This is because investment business is not regulated business unless : ( 1 ) It is carried on from a UK office ; or ( 2 ) Where relevant , it is carried on with or for customers in the UK and is within the FSA 's territorial scope ( see page 39 above ) . |
| 8 | ( c ) Management problems Where a practice is carried on in a number of different locations : ( 1 ) rivalry between different offices will naturally occur and is generally healthy , but the partners should not overlook the potential for a fissiparous tendency to develop . |
| 9 | Their love affair was carried on against a background of nightly bombings , wartime tension , the advance of the German army on Paris . |
| 10 | Conversation was carried on against a background of ear-splitting barking . |