Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
2 | When she first begins to talk , she uses two different types of speech : egocentric speech , a kind of monologue , when she chatters on without bothering to know whom she is speaking to or even whether they are listening ; and socialized speech , a sign of growing maturity and decentring , when she tries to carry on a conversation , reacting to what the other person says . |
3 | It is pretty difficult to carry on a conversation like that , let alone write a scientific paper . |
4 | Once authorisation to carry on a banking business has been granted by the home member state to a bank in accordance with the Community 's essential requirements , the Community legislative approach is to require the host country in which the bank may wish to provide cross-border services or establish a branch to recognise the validity of that authorisation , and to allow it to do so without making additional ‘ authorisation ’ requirements to the bank . |
5 | The benefit of planning permission to carry on a business from premises is normally lost by a subsequent change of use of those premises . |
6 | Treaty , freely to carry on a business . |
7 | He faced a prison sentence , and in his eagerness to keep his client out of prison , defending QC Mr Christmas Humphreys claimed that Trevor had been overworking and was drinking ‘ to give him the energy to carry on a task that was almost more than he could bear ’ . |
8 | If they were found worthy they were given help , including cash and the tools to carry on a trade , help in finding a job and regular visitation and advice until they could ‘ stand on their own feet ’ . |
9 | This argument was rejected on the basis that , from its formation , Newco 's wider purpose was to carry on a trade and that was why it was acquiring the business . |
10 | It 's a peculiar way to carry on a war , is n't it ? |
11 | It begins to sound from this description that it 's I twelve which is a bit of a dinosaur , a a dodo , that this is a county trying to carry on a thing which has probably passed its sell by date , that er it is n't fair to say that I five is primarily for industry , erm that is n't what the law says it is . |
12 | Since the δ-endotoxin is coded for by a single gene , which is usually carried on a plasmid , it has been relatively easy to locate and clone these genes from a number of strains of Bt and to express them in other organisms . |
13 | Caesar was the first Roman to allow his own portrait to appear on coins minted at Rome and elsewhere in his lifetime ; his statue was carried on a litter , and set next to statues of the gods . |
14 | This was also carried on a division ; the Government accepted their defeat and did not seek to reverse the decision . |
15 | It was not a weapon which was capable of being carried on a belt or in a sash . |
16 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |
17 | Mr Bresslaw had collapsed once before , in October last year , and on that occasion he had to be carried on a stretcher out of a show business dinner . |
18 | We w we was partnerships you see well when our place collapsed they carried on just carried on a bit because they were connected with Japan . |
19 | Brachiopod feeding is carried out by the lophophore ( p. 61 ) , a ciliated band usually carried on a loop , which also creates the currents used in feeding . |
20 | ’ Is that a volatile load to be carried on a motorway ? ’ |
21 | Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity . |
22 | The National Park Authority and Dyfed Wildlife Trust have carried out a survey into the summer population of shelduck . |
23 | The committee had also carried out a survey of parking problems in residential areas . |
24 | Michael Zander , professor of law at the London School of Economics and one of the members of the commission , has carried out a survey of courts . |
25 | Canadian market research firm DMR Group 's Australian subsidiary , in conjunction with AUUG — the Australian Open Systems User Group — has carried out a survey of open systems strategies down under , polling some 1,000 organisations on their views of open systems technology . |
26 | However , by the time the CPAG came to give evidence to the Select Committee it had taken on board the idea of women 's financial dependency in marriage and had carried out a survey to discover the extent of mothers ' dependence on family allowance for their own and their children 's survival , irrespective of the level of their husbands ' earnings . |
27 | Brunel had carried out a survey at about the same time and submitted proposals for a broad gauge line linking up with the Hereford , Ross and Gloucester Railway . |
28 | Warwick University has carried out a survey of management handling of industrial relations in multi-establishment firms . |
29 | Mr Johnston revealed that Trading Standards officers had recently carried out a survey of motor dealers which showed that most were breaking the law by not displaying vehicle prices properly . |
30 | Sainsbury 's says it 's carried out a survey and found that eighty three percent of those asked want a new supermarket in Stroud . |