Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They travel great distances , carried along on floating pack-ice . |
| 2 | FEARS that a new doping scandal was about to erupt were firmly quashed yesterday by the Jockey Club , which announced that a series of tests carried out on recent race- course flops had proved negative . |
| 3 | However , the NFU and the SLF said their members were seriously concerned at the lack of a requirement for water authorities to seek a way-leave , particularly if the industry is privatised and any work carried out on private land would result in increased profits for the water company without its having to pay anything for the rights to gain access . |
| 4 | The normal range of responses to testing was taken from 47 studies carried out on normal healthy volunteers . |
| 5 | Species develop , it is argued , specific forms of innate behaviours and drives which are geared towards survival and reproduction and , while much of this work has been carried out on non-human species , it has indeed been applied directly to the human animal : Desmond Morris 's ‘ naked ape ’ . |
| 6 | A more serious investigation was carried out on blue babies who required surgery soon after birth to correct congenital heart defects . |
| 7 | Point counts carried out on such rocks under CL may differ significantly from those performed under transmitted light , particularly in the greater proportion of bioclasts detected . |
| 8 | This test was carried out on six patients with peritonitis , and the severity of bacterial peritonitis was expressed quantitatively . |
| 9 | Phase I clinical trials have been carried out on healthy volunteers to evaluate the way the drug is absorbed and its potential toxicity . |
| 10 | Immunohistochemical detection of the bromodeoxyuridine incorporation was carried out on 4 µm sections . |
| 11 | Morphological measurements and enzyme activities carried out on intestinal mucosa are another good method of assessing dietary nitrogen quality . |
| 12 | File selection and search practice are carried out on two emulated systems ( DIALOG and ORBIT ) . |
| 13 | Restoration work has been carried out on two towers in Surrey . |
| 14 | Post-mortems carried out on two of the dead swans have proved inconclusive , but Mr O'Sullivan said he suspected the birds had fallen prey to the same disease which hit the colony before . |
| 15 | POST MORTEM EXAMINATIONS / ARE BEING CARRIED OUT ON TWO BODIES / FOUND YESTERDAY ON SKYE |
| 16 | Enhanced communication support includes new remote procedure calls , which enable VxWorks tasks to be carried out on other systems ; and extensions to semaphore signals — a semaphore is a special-purpose data type . |
| 17 | Enhanced communication support includes new remote procedure calls ( RPC ) , which enable VxWorks tasks to be carried out on other systems ; and extensions to semaphore signals ( a semaphore is a special-purpose data type ) . |
| 18 | Further extensive tests are still being carried out on other samples but so far no trace of Miss Larkin , 24 , has been found . |
| 19 | Freeze/thaw ( minus 30°C/R.T. ) tests should be carried out on all solutions , emulsions , creams and all other liquid or semi-solid products . |
| 20 | Indonesian law stipulates that an environmental assessment must be carried out on all major industrial investments . |
| 21 | Hence , chemical studies are confidently carried out on one or at most a very few instances of the materials that chemists are analysing and synthesizing . |
| 22 | All processing was carried out on one definition at a time . |
| 23 | ‘ This was a dastardly act carried out on one of the busiest days of the week . |
| 24 | A study at the unit was carried out on 80 women under the age of 40 who were pregnant for the first time . |
| 25 | Blacon has benefited from the Estate Action programme before with £1.5m worth of work being carried out on 80 homes . |
| 26 | The public may best remember its airshows , but history 's more likely to credit Abingdon with the vital maintenance work it carried out on Allied aircraft from World War Two to the Gulf conflict . |
| 27 | In addition , 12 Merchant Ships were built and repairs and refits were carried out on 370 naval vessels and 2437 merchant vessels during the period 1939 – 45 . |
| 28 | Much online catalogue research has been carried out on outdated , first-generation systems , or on specially developed " toy " systems which do not access real files and are in no way suitable for live use in a library . |
| 29 | A traffic survey carried out on 24th June . |
| 30 | The program title is misleading as the operations can also be carried out on floppy disks . |