Example sentences of "had been carry [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The October revolution had been carried through on the assumption that Russia , although a relatively backward country and hardly ‘ ripe ’ for revolution in a Marxist sense , could help to bring about a European and later a worldwide transition to a communist social order . |
| 2 | In the end , he had to settle for a survey which had been carried out on a national scale by a well-known agency . |
| 3 | Previous abridgements of the Philosophical Transactions had been carried out on a piecemeal basis , whereas Baddam 's version provided continuity and uniformity for the first time ( see Nichols 's summary of them in the above , pp. 482–3 ) . |
| 4 | Perhaps they had been carried out on the orders of someone else ? |
| 5 | All these years he had been carrying on on the side and now here was actual proof of it . |