Example sentences of "been carry [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 More recently , the American writer Washington Irving ( 1783- 1959 ) described the ghost of a cavalryman ‘ whose head had been carried away by a cannonball in some nameless battle ’ during the American War of Independence .
2 REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place .
3 The main testing has been operational , but it has been carried out under a variety of conditions and the low-level sub-programs in particular have survived essentially unchanged through several changes to the program .
4 The most severe tests have already been carried out on a man and a woman , unconnected with the project , last week .
5 Workflow software is able to recognise when a particular action has been carried out on a document and can then carry out other actions ( which were previously done manually ) by itself .
6 In tonight 's programme , Laura and her parents discover whether she is suitable for the surgery , which has only been carried out on a handful of other patients and is still at the experimental stage .
7 It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin .
8 Conversations with pupils about ‘ handicap ’ have already been carried out in a pilot study .
9 We are also able to certificate any module where the training and assessment has been carried out in a language other than English .
10 SCOTVEC can certificate any module where training and assessment has been carried out in a language other than English ; an endorsement appears on the Learning Outcomes Statement accompanying the Record of Education and Training indicating the language used .
11 Detectives believe most of the UDA/UFF killings have been carried out by a unit from the Shankill district .
12 A survey of these structures on the line has been carried out by a firm of consulting engineers , showing that only one minor bridge requires any structural repairs .
13 The few studies that have been undertaken have been carried out from a management perspective in terms of stock management or to quantity overall use of library , materials apart from items recorded in circulation statistics .
14 One unguarded remark by Byrkin , one remark that had been carried back by a man with innocence on his face to those who would judge Byrkin .
15 All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels .
16 Because of that the reactors had to undergo a licensing procedure from Nuclear , Now that survey , which they have been carrying out for a number of months now , almost certainly would require that a number of major improvements be made to those reactors , and they just have n't got the money to do that at the moment .
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