Example sentences of "[noun sg] carry on [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Contemporary with the alterations to the main east-west road , at least one or perhaps two possible public buildings were constructed immediately to the south on Sites 1 and 2 , each with a frontage carried on four columns and set so close to the road that the new roadside drains had to be diverted . |
2 | Its counterpart on Ermine Street was a two-phase structure , beginning life as a building measuring 25.9 by 13.1 m ( 84½ by 43 ft ) , with a shingled roof carried on two rows of massive posts 5.8 m ( 19ft ) apart . |
3 | As a result , the worst excesses of feudal exploitation carried on unchecked . |
4 | Broadly speaking , although it is discussed in more detail below , a business is transferred as a going concern if the purchaser carries on that business in succession to the vendor as distinct from the purchaser selectively choosing specific assets of the vendor for use in the purchaser 's own business . |
5 | None the less , the consensus in the General Assembly will give Mr Perez de Cuellar scope to carry on behind-the-scenes negotiations with all sides in the conflict , to agree to a UN peace plan . |
6 | The former sclerite carries on either side a convex process serving for articulation with the ginglymus of the mandible . |
7 | The Revenue nowadays liaises closely with the Commission on such matters and , in the absence of any other information , is likely to conclude that the organisation carries on other activities which are not strictly defined as charitable , eg political lobbying and campaigning etc . |
8 | The Vought Corporation is developing an ASAT ( anti-satellite ) missile for the USAF to carry on F-15 fighters . |
9 | The Hetherington study shows the increase in the amount of parliamentary news carried on three of the main news programmes , Channel Four News , BBC1 's Nine O'Clock News , and ITN 's News at Ten : |
10 | Bulleid introduced new and more comfortable main-line and electric suburban trains , the latter including a double-deck prototype train for the crowded Kent lines and a revolutionary prototype general-purpose steam locomotive carried on two steam-driven power bogies . |
11 | KPMG has authorisation from the ICAEW to carry on all investment business except discretionary management . |
12 | The pressure of work , the need to earn , the pressure of family and children , the disappointment of new partners are only too real but do not say , ‘ I only have strength to carry on this path I am treading . |
13 | ( ‘ Statutory undertakers ' are defined as ‘ persons authorized by any enactment to carry on any railway , light railway , road transport , water transport , canal , inland navigation , dock , harbour , pier or lighthouse undertaking , or any undertaking for the supply of electricity , gas , hydraulic power or water ’ . ) |
14 | The Church of S. Luke has a central dome carried on 12 piers with squinches to transform the square into an octagon while higher up are small pendentives which convert the octagon to a circle . |
15 | It was established by a motion carried on 12 December 1948 . |
16 | But er some schemes have annual general meetings and elect people er some are quite content to leave things as they are and the volunteer carries on all the way through with it . |
17 | A correspondent in Nottingham assures me that this year every police vehicle and every ambulance in the county carries on both sides a large photograph of the Chief Constable , Mr C. McLachlan , enjoining temperance . |
18 | It differed in only two respects , that the turntable was a much narrower arrangement than the Wolverton one , and that when in the uncoupled position , it rested on a single support carried on two small wheels . |
19 | It affects us directly — a balanced diet means we have the necessary energy to carry on living life to the full . |