Example sentences of "carry on an [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , as Samuel warns : ‘ even if nation is expelled from the class-room , it will still carry on an underground existence in the corridors and playground and an altogether more uninhibited one on television and the football terraces . |
| 2 | Probably publicans were just carrying on an old tradition of involvement in popular sports . |
| 3 | The younger John claimed that Langton had been carrying on an adulterous relationship with his stepmother Joan . |
| 4 | If this is true ( and it is not so far-fetched : if you carry on an intelligent argument with your readers in the columns of a newspaper , you can not expect them to believe that the responsibilities of self-government are beyond them ) , then it would seem a good example of propaganda having the opposite effect to that intended . |
| 5 | Certain infallible rules have been established , and we carry on an unvarying routine in which we apply the same theory to the same cases . ’ |
| 6 | They carried on an extensive trade in a variety of products such as cattle cake , seed corn , manure and farm fertilisers . |
| 7 | ‘ Any person who on any premises — as aforesaid , carries on an offensive trade without such consent , if any , as at the date of establishment of the trade was required by subsection ( 1 ) of this section … shall be liable for a fine not exceeding £5 for every day on which he carried on the trade — after receiving notice from the local authority to discontinue the trade ’ . |