Example sentences of "carry [adv] on the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 2 | Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible . |
| 3 | Very little research has been carried out on the functions of domestic pottery ; there must have been a variety of functions which , glibly , can be placed under the headings of cooking and storage , but behind such distinctions there is little clarity . |
| 4 | Despite the increased difficulties , trials have been carried out on the effects of homoeopathy in a chronic condition — rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 5 | As she points out : Remarkably little research has been carried out on the question of how these filters operate , and by whom they are operated , yet any policies aimed at harmonizing the interests of agriculture , conservation and recreation in the countryside must be based upon an understanding of this problem . |
| 6 | There is still a great deal to be learnt about early Anglo-Saxon society , both as a result of new excavations , the publication of older ones and research carried out on the wealth of material already published or in museums . |
| 7 | On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days . |
| 8 | CHECKED-BY a check has been carried out on the module at this point , probably as part of a quality inspection |
| 9 | Research was carried out on the stability of such ferries , which took some time . |
| 10 | Staff training : this should be carried out on the day of commencement or the day immediately preceding . |
| 11 | Detailed observations were carried out on the behaviour of the students during the actual course , and both students and teachers were interviewed as to their feelings in participating in this form of instruction . |
| 12 | Similar analyses indicating new ordering principles have been carried out on the gardens of aristocrats ( e.g. Leone 1984 ) , furnishings , the disposal of rubbish and forms of cutlery ( Deetz 1977 ) . |
| 13 | Norman had become a bit weary of struggling through the Edinburgh traffic jams from his home in Strathaven each day for 16 months since being asked by Peter Wood , then Managing Director of Financial Services Division , to take over the running of RBIS while a management consultancy exercise was carried out on the company by the Boston Consultancy Group . |
| 14 | However , little research has been carried out on the quantities of wood required . |
| 15 | But , above all , more intensive studies need to be carried out on the pottery of the second half of the fourth century to ensure a greater refinement in dating . |
| 16 | Many experiments have been carried out on the perception of stress , and it is clear that many different sound characteristics are important in making a syllable recognisably stressed . |
| 17 | It was carried out on the orders of Salim Al-Makesh to give himself time to flee the terrorist base before Delta destroyed it . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps they had been carried out on the orders of someone else ? |
| 19 | But it is imperative to ensure that research is carried out on the value of screening for gestational diabetes in those hitherto neglected settings . |
| 20 | A split-half reliability carried out on the data from children in the standardisation sample between the ages of 4 years and 8 years 11 months produced correlations of between 0.64 and 0.84 for the different items . |
| 21 | Many detailed studies have been carried out on the nature of the consumption relationship and all seem to agree that , for the community as a whole , consumption is related in some way to income . |
| 22 | Their pointing gestures and vocalisations will be video-recorded to allow detailed analyses to be carried out on the characteristics of pre-verbal communication . |
| 23 | shortlisting should be carried out on the basis of a previously agreed person specification detailing the qualifications , experience and skills necessary to do the job ; |
| 24 | The analysis stage is invariably carried out on the basis of written responses to a questionnaire . |
| 25 | Psychologists theorizing about animal Umwelten need to ask what such inferences might be , what is the perceptual evidence in which the animal 's concepts are anchored , and what are the motor activities which test for them or which are carried out on the basis of conditional tests defined in terms of them . |
| 26 | Segmentation This may be carried out on the basis of ( i ) intuition techniques and product and interpretation ; or ( ii ) use of market research positioning data ( suitably re-arranged and interpreted ) ; or ( iii ) using an analysis of attribute sets . |
| 27 | Such public procurement or purchasing has in the past not been carried out on the basis of buying the cheapest and/or the best . |
| 28 | The letter also confirmed that " expropriations carried out on the basis of occupation law and occupation sovereignty ( 1945-49 ) [ could ] no longer be reversed " . |
| 29 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 30 | As the twenty-two by thirty-two foot painting was too large to move , restoration work was carried out on the spot behind tarpaulins fitted with transparent panels to allow visitors — most of them drawn to the Salle des Fetes by the ‘ Mona Lisa ’ — to watch work in progress . |