Example sentences of "carry [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 2 | Yet there is no doubt that they have an active , social life , full of real and caring communication , carried on in a language quite alien to our own experience of mind and meaning . |
| 3 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 4 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 5 | A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties . |
| 6 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 7 | In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the beginning of 1990 , for example , there was a much publicised case of heart surgery carried out on an infant still in the womb . |
| 10 | Instead , studies were carried out with the focus now on the listener rather than the speaker . |
| 11 | Annely Juda said at the time that she would have to be carried out of the building rather than leave . |
| 12 | So would the coffin be carried out of the house then , into the hearse . |
| 13 | The upgrading of the courts and the club house will be carried out under a scheme jointly funded by the District Council , the Tennis club and the Village Association . |
| 14 | The upgrading of the courts and the club house will be carried out under a scheme jointly funded by the District Council , the Tennis club and the Village Association . |
| 15 | By Brig Scott 's account , " as far as I could see , during the next twenty four hours , all the arrangements in connection with the surrender and evacuation were carried out by the Yugoslavs speedily and efficiently " . |
| 16 | Even the policy-making functions will generally be carried out by the executives rather than the board itself . |
| 17 | ( 10 ) If the property is leasehold : ( a ) please confirm that the seller has complied with all the covenants in the lease ; ( b ) does the seller know whether any items of substantial expenditure for decoration , maintenance or repair have been carried out by the lessors recently but not yet charged to tenants , or are any such contemplated in the near future ? ( 11 ) Is the seller aware of any overriding interest under the Land Registration Act 1925 , s70(1) ? ( 12 ) Please confirm : ( a ) that all gas and electrical installations are the seller 's absolute property and are included in the purchase price ; ( b ) that the electric light installations down to the bulb holders will be left intact ; ( c ) that all furniture , furnishings and fittings not included in the sale and all rubbish will be removed before completion . |
| 18 | Hence , such experiments are normally carried out in a laboratory permanently equipped with a wind-tunnel ( the name for any system providing a working air stream ) , a water flume or channel ( similar systems with water ) , or a towing tank ( a large tank of stationary water through which an obstacle can be moved ) . |
| 19 | Margaret had one of the first major heart operations carried out in the UK more than 27 years ago in Edinburgh . |
| 20 | One in nine of the operations carried out in the region now are done privately , and that 's actually one in three in some parts of . |
| 21 | Language tests had been carried out in the breach rather than the observance . |
| 22 | If this was the case and that principle was carried forward to the Act then the duty under the Act would be unexcludable . |
| 23 | But since we ca n't carry on with the experiment now we 've got to leave that till later on . |
| 24 | And er then I carried on in the woodlands then , cutting trees down and erm sawing up too . |