Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
2 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
3 | Plans to build hospitals in particular places , or schools , appeared on the agenda because committee chairmen had canvassed opinion and had advised the secretariats in Tripoli : they went through smoothly enough , suggesting that the occasional displeasing reverse was more the result of failure to plan and to prepare the ground in advance , to carry on the ordinary business of politics , than a result of failure in some mystical process , such as interpreting the general will by introspection . |
4 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
5 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
6 | The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection . |
7 | We held it was the duty of revolutionary Socialists to denounce both imperialist peace and imperialist war as the inevitable consequences of Capitalism and , whichever came , to carry on the independent class struggle of the workers , directing it towards the conquest of Worker 's Power … . |
8 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |
9 | 8 information about other books published , materials , tapes , etc — often carried on the inside back cover . |
10 | Her successor , Margaret Moore , successfully carried on the established pattern . |
11 | Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide . |
12 | Loose canvas seat covers were also carried on the upper decks . |
13 | These are replacements but are still carried on the original pendentives . |
14 | Perhaps I think it beneath my dignity to let myself be carried on the spontaneous flood , employing my divine gift of reason only to navigate on the course of greatest awareness . |
15 | PLEASE NOTE : ONLY INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE NEW FORMS WILL BE CARRIED ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE NEXT ISSUE OF LEADS . |
16 | A variety of cargoes , as diverse as Britain 's industries , has been carried on the inland waterways . |
17 | Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance . |
18 | As this happens , the fertilised egg is carried down the fallopian tube into the uterus . |
19 | Ebenezer was dimly aware that he was being carried up the narrow staircase . |
20 | The wounded German Officer was carried up the grassy bank and placed against a tree . |
21 | Spokesman Tony Ward said the BAF were ‘ sad for Jason Livingston , ’ but added : ‘ We have carried out the right procedures and we would fight any court case to the bitter end to defend our position . ’ |
22 | Guppy allegedly boasted of having carried out the perfect crime , the court heard . |
23 | I took over the chair previously occupied by Angus Maude , who since 1979 had carried out the impossible job of overseeing Government information . |
24 | Until this study was carried out the individual elements of the FAOR methodology had been developed and tested in isolation , each being the responsibility of different organisations within the FAOR partnership . |
25 | Only recently , Indian organisations such as the Shuar Federation have persuaded the government to grant legal titles to communal Indian land holdings , and in some cases this has been possible only after foreign volunteers have carried out the necessary land surveys . |
26 | English applicants were twice as likely to be selected , and this difference would probably have been greater had we carried out the full study and been able to include posts in teaching hospitals . |
27 | Although HP has already carried out the main task of porting Unicenter to a RISC platform , the Sun port involves the move from a Berkeley-based operating system over to V.4 , as well as the work involved in supporting Solaris value-add . |
28 | While the public may be cynical about electoral promises , governments of whatever complexion customarily take pains to demonstrate that they have carried out the main proposals embodied in their manifesto , as well as other commitments or ‘ pledges ’ given at election time . |
29 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
30 | Bream 's counsel , Mr Charles Tilling suggested in his closing speech that another person at the party had carried out the fatal knife attack . |