Example sentences of "carried [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We simply glued the broken ear back in place and she carried on to a successful conclusion .
2 He tried to leave the chair and go , but did n't badly enough want to , and carried on with a furious daydream of what the trades-union movement might come to represent again in England , although England was only half his country .
3 ‘ I think that goddamn racket means we should all be dead , ’ he announced cheerfully , then carried on with an involved story of how he had once won undying glory by intercepting a pass against the Philadelphia Faggots .
4 Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes .
5 Melissa 's high-pitched voice carried irritatingly on the warm night air .
6 Salvo spoke in a low voice , but his words carried easily on the still air .
7 Her clear voice carried easily to the waiting horseman .
8 Hull 's powerful prop looks likely to be cited to the Rugby League for a tackle on Wires second-row forward Bob Jackson , which saw the Aussie skipper carried off with a nasty eye injury .
9 From that direction there came the sound of small-arms fire , carried distinctly on the slight breeze .
10 The younger man 's voice carried clearly across the small space separating them .
11 His quiet voice carried clearly to the assembled company .
12 The whistling of the males carried far across the water-logged land , a wild and haunting sound : ‘ Peee-yoo , peee-yoo . ’
13 Alan Llwyd , who has himself won both the chair and crown of the National Eisteddfod twice in three years , worked on the screen adaptation of research he carried out for a blockbusting book on Hedd Wyn 's life .
14 One example of this work is the taped interviews carried out for the Imperial War Museum in London of the remaining survivors of the 1914–18 war .
15 A SURVEY carried out for the Regional Council by System 3 Scotland shows that the public has a good level of understanding of the services that Lothian 's employees provide .
16 The research , carried out for the Independent Television Commission , asserts that most television viewers are not offended by what they see on Britain 's four main channels .
17 This exercise is a refinement of the one carried out for the whole district in that it takes more account of local needs and provides additional information over and above the grades of staff required .
18 The inspection is similar to that carried out for the Structural Survey , however because the report is in a standard format , the information conveyed is more concise and limited in order to identify the more important defects , bearing in mind the property 's type and age .
19 The legislation has been designed in part on the basis of research on custodial interrogation carried out for the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure .
20 Thus drainage schemes , carried out for the express purpose of intensifying agriculture , converting land from grass to cereals , and ‘ rationalizing ’ hedge and ditch systems , may create further drainage problems in their turn .
21 Figures they gave us from surveys carried out for the Inter-Bank Research Organisation by the British Market Research Bureau confirmed this , but showed that people in social classes A , B and C1 are still twice as likely to have a bank account as people in social classes D and E , and that the higher someone 's income the greater is the likelihood of their having a bank account .
22 A survey carried out for the Welsh Office , published yesterday , revealed radon ‘ hot-spots ’ in Clwyd , Gwynedd , Powys and Dyfed .
23 He stood , in Tolkien 's view , for all that was good in the Dark Ages — for the heroic awareness of heroic fallibility which Tolkien thought he could detect in Beowulf and in Maldon , for the spark of virtue which had made Anglo-Saxon England ripe for conversion ( a process carried out without a single martyrdom ) .
24 16 and 17 , that an activity carried out on a permanent basis or , in any event , without a foreseeable limit to its duration , does not fall within the Commmunity provisions concerning the provision of services , but falls within the scope of articles 48 to 51 or articles 52 to 58 of the E.E.C .
25 The importance of this was made evident following the results of another survey in April , this one carried out by the German Government , which identified that 46% of all tennis players suffer from tennis elbow as a result of impact shock vibration .
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