Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The widest definition of the Crown in the cases is that of Lord Diplock in Town Investments Ltd. v. Department of Environment who said of the term that it is ‘ appropriate to embrace both collectively and individually all the Ministers of the Crown and parliamentary secretaries under whose direction the administrative work of government is carried on by civil servants in the various government departments ’ . |
| 2 | is carried on by private study under supervision . |
| 3 | The distinction here is between two very distinct schools of harpsichord-making ; a tradition carried on by native craftsmen who flourished during the first 25 years of the 18th century and an imported tradition initiated by Hermann Tabel that displaced its native rival as effectively as a cuckoo might take charge in a sparrow 's nest . |
| 4 | In the first half of the seventeenth century the Dutch East India Company , for example , still sent representatives of its own to negotiate with European powers ; but by its end any diplomatic activity in Europe carried on by non-sovereign entities was a curiosity without practical significance . |
| 5 | In 1839 , the Chinese decided to end the lucrative opium trade carried on by British merchants . |
| 6 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 7 | Up to about 1730 most of this enclosure was carried through by private agreements between the owners of the land in question . |
| 8 | Strong men fainted and were carried off by weak men … |
| 9 | These functions were previously carried out by regional water boards and local drainage authorities . |
| 10 | A large proportion of car crime is carried out by young males between the ages of 12 and 22 . |
| 11 | More people with incontinence seem to be consulting their doctors about it than has been found in previous studies , but the procedures carried out by general practitioners still seem to be suboptimal . |
| 12 | Anonymous telephone calls claimed the attack had been carried out by various groups , including Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah , in revenge for Israel 's assassination of the Hezbollah secretary-general Sheikh Abbas Musawi in February [ see p. 38750 ] . |
| 13 | Formative evaluation was carried out by psychometric methods directed towards both process and product . |
| 14 | An audit may also take the form of an investigation of the internal systems of control ( carried out by internal auditors , who are employed by an organization ) . |
| 15 | It appeared that the attack had been carried out by extremist forces not under the control of JNA commanders . |
| 16 | School cleaning in Lincolnshire is already carried out by private contractors . |
| 17 | The committee takes the view that government research projects carried out by private industry have a better chance of leading to commercial rewards in terms of new products and processes . |
| 18 | Because disposal of industrial waste is carried out by private enterprise with the sole interest of making a profit , the temptation to dodge intricate and often expensive safety precautions is evident . |
| 19 | Over recent years track repair was carried out by private contractors . |
| 20 | He maintains that foreign exchange intervention and management of the Exchange Equalisation Account could be carried out by private institutions , as could the banking role , and monetary policies designed by the Treasury could be implemented by a major commercial bank for a fee . |
| 21 | Stories brought back from gynaecological examinations and procedures carried out by male doctors are at best disturbing , at worst horrifying . |
| 22 | ‘ We were a little complacent so we had a fundamental audit carried out by external people . |
| 23 | Zooming is carried out by repeating pixel values , so that zooming by a factor of four implies that each pixel value in the memory bank or banks is repeated four times , and each line of the image is also repeated four times . |
| 24 | More aggressive marketing was carried out by door-to-door canvassers in some Boards , and promotional advertising also increased as the supply situation got easier . |
| 25 | A savings and investment survey carried out by Financial Research Services ( FRS ) between October 1991 and March 1992 shows that approximately 60% of Tessas are opened by people aged over 45 . |
| 26 | I have managed to obtain a copy of a survey carried out by final year students from Manchester Polytechnic in 1984 . |
| 27 | Piecemeal drainage and reclamation in the Cambridgeshire fens , carried out by Saxon farmers around Wisbech and Elm , have been traced through the detective work of archaeologists , using aerial photography and careful analysis of the evidence on the ground . |
| 28 | It was mentioned earlier that trainee advice workers do sometimes observe interviews carried out by experienced advisers . |
| 29 | This work is not carried out by MAS but we should be mindful of opportunities to sell ( subtly ) the firm 's services in this area . |
| 30 | The man behind the remodelling was the architect Josef Mocker and the work was carried out by official artists such as Čermák , František Sequens and Antonín Lhota . |