Example sentences of "[pron] carry [adv prt] a " in BNC.

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1 Every week I carry out a 10-gallon water change and two gravel cleans .
2 The fish are fed sparingly once a day and I carry out a 20% water change every ten days when I use a vacuum to clean the top layer of gravel .
3 I carry out a 25% water change every two weeks .
4 Hot air , or ‘ heat ’ guns are almost a disposable tool amongst tradesmen who carry out a lot of paint stripping and decoration .
5 And as orchestras , even good ones , always Make mistakes in the same places , you carry over a lot of experience .
6 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 .
7 Erm chemically speaking , if you carry out a reaction which can produce an optically active compound , you would normally the recenate and then you have to separate by either chemical method or the physical method and it 's usually not very easy .
8 Certain infallible rules have been established , and we carry on an unvarying routine in which we apply the same theory to the same cases . ’
9 ( Actually , until we carry out a properly calibrated experiment to measure the forces involved in both versions nobody will know for certain which is more powerful . )
10 To test these comparative static predictions , we carry out a similar exercise on the actual data .
11 More formally , if equations ( 3.6 ) — ( 3.8 ) are the ‘ truth ’ and we carry out an ordinary least-squares regression of C t on Y t , as shown in equation ( 3.9 ) , then , assuming that we have a very large sample so that we can use population variances in place of sample variances , our estimator of will tend to the conventional formula : where is the covariance between C and Y and is the variance of Y.
12 This method brings library users into the actual building , where they carry out a series of practical tasks concerned with location of materials , photocopying , use of catalogues , borrowing routines and so on .
13 As students work through the projects in the Student 's Book , they carry out a number of tasks and activities which form the basis for similar projects of their own .
14 ( Daly 1975 , p. 75 ) and ‘ the ability of people to reach destinations at which they carry out a given activity … ’
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