Example sentences of "be carry on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’
2 the Business has been carried on in the ordinary and usual course and in the same manner ( including nature and scope ) as in the past and no unusual or abnormal contract differing from the ordinary contracts necessitated by the nature of its business has been entered into ; and
3 Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner .
4 The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ .
5 They may only be carried on with the local authority 's consent , and
6 Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs .
7 In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant .
8 Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business .
9 At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion .
10 After Young 's death his work was carried on by the French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion ( 1790–1832 ) .
11 He was not involved in any way with the mining that was carried on in the surrounding area , but he was greatly affected by the frequent serious and often fatal accidents suffered by the miners through premature blasting explosions .
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