Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to carry [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus throughout the history of local government , units of local administration were formed to carry out administration in localities . |
| 2 | This was offset by the fact that all the farmers had been on courses but in a family farm situation , where over half the wives were expected to carry out farm work in the case of their husbands ' sickness , some training should be beneficial . |
| 3 | In a miniature echo of Tsarist Russia , those of the Ascendancy who were dwindling , Goldsmith 's children , and Swift 's , were permitted to carry on fading ; those more vigorous were not made to feel welcome in the new Ireland of ‘ the Risen People ’ . |
| 4 | No further attacks developed but five escorting destroyers of Capt. Lord Louis Mountbatten 's 5th Destroyer Flotilla were detached to carry out a bombardment of Benghazi just after midnight . |
| 5 | It appeared to be British and was probably one of the highly mobile units known as Jock ’ columns which were used to carry out harassing attacks on the German flanks . |
| 6 | And there was lots of the we came to an end and if we were going to carry on with this further we the everybody was getting a bit fed up with it . |
| 7 | The Supreme Soviet also resolved that the President , Boris Yeltsin , should remove from office ministers who were failing to carry out the decisions of the republic 's legislative bodies . |
| 8 | Self-evidently he does not go out and list them himself , and very early on historic building investigators were appointed to carry out the task and guidelines for listing drawn up . |
| 9 | During the period 1977 to 1980 two professional management consultancy organisations were appointed to carry out studies of suitable areas where the company might relocate . |
| 10 | The children were asked to carry out various tasks , such as choosing the marble which made Jack jump and explaining their choices . |
| 11 | Comparatively large ‘ irregular forces ’ were earmarked to carry out the raids , which would be commanded by Hazelden for Tobruk and Stirling for Benghazi . |
| 12 | ( Hu Yaobang and his family , for example , were allowed to carry on living in the privileged conditions of Zhongnanhai and Fang Lizhi was still allowed to travel abroad . ) |
| 13 | The Saints were forced to carry out sweeping changes to their site , including a new stand , entrance , steps from the dressing room and floodlights . |
| 14 | Adds Lt Watts : ‘ What often made situations all the more tragic was the fact that these poor From here is single col for page 7 people were trying to carry on with their lives . |
| 15 | They were advised to carry on as at present with these and focus in the meantime on the priority problem behaviour . |
| 16 | The three old miners considered that it was intended to carry out this operation a little before the smelt houses " left off " and of course they left off by persuasion of the Parliamentary forces , violent or otherwise . |
| 17 | " After some discussion it was arranged to carry on the Winter Meetings fortnightly as last year . |
| 18 | Merseyside Area Committee originally suggested that the job title of ‘ organiser ’ no longer fitted the task that the bureau senior staff member was expected to carry out . |
| 19 | erm Banbury School decided to or the Governors of Banbury School decided to seek opting out status on the grounds that the Local Education Authority was seeking to carry out changes to the offer presently available in Banbury for post-sixteen education . |
| 20 | In 1976 , the centenary of the event , Mr Alan Spedding , the present organist and choir master , thought it might be time to call a halt but met with such opposition from the townspeople that it was decided to carry on . |
| 21 | After various consultations with interested parties , it was decided to carry on in the traditional manner . |
| 22 | At the meeting it was decided to carry out a detailed analysis of the needs of each church 128 in all , of which fifty or so are of prime artistic interest and to calculate precisely the costs involved . |
| 23 | As no suitable package could be purchased at an acceptable cost , it was decided to carry out all systems analysis and programming work in-house . |
| 24 | Two other modifications to the description resulted which were entered into LIFESPAN , and it was decided to carry out the quality approval . |
| 25 | To minimise any impact on the hotel operation during the modernisation of the lifts , it was decided to carry out the work on a lift by lift basis , with each lift being modernised within a 16 week period . |
| 26 | In addition to the methods mentioned above , which were used specifically to evaluate the undergraduate information retrieval course , an attempt was made to carry out a long-term study on the use of the library with regard to reasons for use , materials used , success in carrying out literature searches etc . |
| 27 | I had a spell off instruction and became the assistant to the chief ground instructor and , in that capacity , I also was instructed to carry out preliminary inspections of crashes that happened at Kinloss during that period , and a most unpleasant task this was . |
| 28 | Indeed , he was selected to carry up the bill of settlement to the Lords , and in 1702 piloted through Parliament a measure to attaint the pretender . |
| 29 | However , after a lively meeting with directors , Reg was persuaded to carry on as coach by three men in a hearse who asked to meet him outside during a beer break . |
| 30 | Fewer digits were repeated when the right rather than the left hand was used to carry out a tracking task . |