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

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1 The business carried on by the company was one entire business and for the purposes of Case I there was only one trade .
2 Another important industrial activity carried on in the neighbourhood was the extraction of salt from sea water .
3 In 1685 two small-scale but embarrassing attacks , by the Duke of Monmouth in the west of England and the Duke of Argyll in Scotland , had been defeated on land but the initial landings had been carried out without the navy being able to stop them .
4 The maintenance carried out on the aquarium was a regular 10% water change and a regular ( every two weeks ) larger water change of 20% using an aquarium gravel cleaner to rid the gravel of unwanted waste .
5 Many of the operations carried out by the sponsor are typical of small-batch operations in large sectors of UK manufacturing and one of the aims of this stage of the research is the derivation of a systematic analysis of production operations in order to gauge the economic potential of fully automated operations .
6 If the purchaser has actual knowledge that the asset sale carried out by the directors is in breach of their fiduciary duty , the transaction is voidable at the instance of the vendor and the purchaser will hold the proceeds of the sale as a constructive trustee .
7 Much of the early work on the revolution carried out in the West was by émigré victims of the Bolshevik victory .
8 And valuations carried out in the region are some of the worst in the country .
9 The range of research work carried out in the department is wide and reflects its multidisciplinary character .
10 ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science , because if we carry on like the Tories are , Britain will be pushed down to the second or third division of industrial nations .
11 ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science because if we carry on like the Tories are , our country is going to be shoved down to the second or third division of modern industrial nations ’ .
12 The kind of practical tasks they carried out for the sufferer were of course very variable .
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