Example sentences of "carry on the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans to build hospitals in particular places , or schools , appeared on the agenda because committee chairmen had canvassed opinion and had advised the secretariats in Tripoli : they went through smoothly enough , suggesting that the occasional displeasing reverse was more the result of failure to plan and to prepare the ground in advance , to carry on the ordinary business of politics , than a result of failure in some mystical process , such as interpreting the general will by introspection . |
| 2 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 3 | PLEASE NOTE : ONLY INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE NEW FORMS WILL BE CARRIED ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE NEXT ISSUE OF LEADS . |
| 4 | As early as July 1728 Wade was able to report : ‘ I am now with all possible diligence carrying on the new road for wheel-carriages between Dunkeld and Inverness , of about 80 English measured miles [ 128 km ] ’ , but it was 1731 which saw the creation of his masterpiece , the road from Dalwhinnie to Fort Augustus , in the middle of the Great Glen . |
| 5 | In office he would prove a ruthless party politician , carrying on the Thatcherite strategy of using the powers of the British state to batter opposition and maintain Tory dominance . |
| 6 | More interested in the style than the fashion , Huggy Bear are carrying on the feminist tradition of punk bands like The Slits and X-Ray Spex with all the musicality of Pete Duel & The Shit or Alien Sex Fiend . |
| 7 | The legal model envisages the board of directors as actually carrying on the day-to-day business of the company so that there is no separate executive organ within the legal model . |
| 8 | One article , carried on the front page of the official party paper Renmin Ribao on Feb. 24 , gave the first ever positive appraisal of capitalism and called for developing a capitalist economy within China as a " useful supplement " to the socialist economy . |
| 9 | No one carried on the cheesemaking tradition in our family , although West Park Farm is still owned by the Birketts , run as a beef farm by my sister-in-law and her young son . |
| 10 | Works produced at the theatre in Hvar , rebuilt in 1612 after its destruction in 1571 , five years before London 's first theatre was built , carried on the literary traditions of the Hvar literary school established in the previous century . |
| 11 | The active part is played by a public corporation , the National Coal Board , which carries on the vast bulk of the exploitation itself whilst licensing a minute amount of private enterprise by others . |