Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] on [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Unfortunately , most of the early studies on owl digestion have been carried out on species that do little damage to the bones of their prey .
32 A minor Cabinet reshuffle was carried out on Feb. 19 — the first since Namibia 's independence on March 21 , 1991 [ see pp. 37296-97 ] — when two new ministries were created .
33 Mastery of the skies over large parts of Germany had already passed to the allies in 1942 , and heavy raids , chiefly by the Royal Air Force , had been carried out on cities mainly in northern and north-western Germany ( Hamburg , Lübeck , Rostock , Cologne , Essen , Bremen , and others ) .
34 Tests carried out on back pain sufferers in the USA showed that 77% of those who tried the inserts said that their pain was considerably reduced after only two weeks of using the product .
35 A MAJOR environmental scheme is to be carried out on Cookstown 's main street — the longest and widest in Ireland .
36 He said : ‘ I found that abortions were regularly carried out on women seven , eight , and even nine months pregnant , often against their will , and that there were even cases of officially-instigated infanticide .
37 The Hull delegate to the National Conference of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children , in Nottingham in October , was surprised to learn that China is less than half as densely populated as the UK , despite the forcible abortion and sterilisation carried out on women in China and used as a means of genocide in Chinese-occupied Tibet .
38 Most abortions within marriage are carried out on women over age 30 ( 56% per cent in 1988 ) .
39 Today , the importance of good sampling becomes more important as more and more surveys are carried out on sample bases .
40 It was decided to remove the guns with their powder and shot to lighten the ship ; this was carried out on Sunday 's high tide .
41 little research has been carried out on consistency of performance on similar test material , especially of mathematics in context .
42 The hospital 's chief executive Len Fenwick immediately said the operation could be carried out on Tyneside .
43 Little research has yet been carried out on controls of brittle fracture within the subsurface , although Bj rlykke ( 1983 ) attributed cement dissolution ( and consequent secondary porosity generation ) to overpressuring , with subsequent cementation in the overlying strata a consequence of pressure release .
44 In addition to numerous small enquiries related to the war effort , major investigations were carried out on projects such as the proposed Mid-Scotland Ship Canal and suitable sites for hydroelectric schemes .
45 Typically , much of this classification , compilation and summary will be carried out on computer packages specially written for market and statistical research purposes .
46 The data reveal that most of the questions and tasks successfully undertaken by pupils in the lowest third of the target pupils involve basic processes of counting and calculation carried out on paper , mentally , and with a calculator ; direct readings from tables of data ; recognition and drawing of familiar shapes ; and some visualization tasks .
47 I have seen some of these treatments carried out on patients and it looks horrific .
48 Because of the sort of problems outlined above ( for a more detailed discussion the reader is referred to Mayer ( 1960 ) and Piercy ( 1964 ) it is desirable that the results of studies carried out on patients with brain damage be confirmed , and if possible extended , among normal subjects .
49 The results of tests carried out on patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia illustrate the limited role for tests of gastric emptying in the management of patients with symptoms not attributable to previous surgery .
50 These affect work carried out on client sites and Courtaulds Engineering already has a system in place to oversee the safety aspects of all its contract projects .
51 A Cabinet reshuffle carried out on Jan. 20 , 1991 , by the head of state and Prime Minister , Lt.-Gen.
52 The second government reshuffle in less than six weeks was carried out on Jan. 31 .
53 Survey of Londoners ) carried out on samples representative of very large areas , in which Whites will have higher proportions in the higher socio-economic groups than Blacks .
54 When an output of the company is in the form of large quantities of interchangeable items it becomes uneconomical to test each one to ensure that it conforms to specification , so tests are carried out on samples .
55 When an output of the company is in the form of large quantities of interchangeable items it becomes uneconomical to test each one to ensure that it conforms to specification , so tests are carried out on samples .
56 However , these studies had been carried out on words in isolation , and we felt that , given the ambiguity of word boundaries , the search space might prove much larger and more complex than these studies implied .
57 WE LEARN of some interesting cosmetic dentistry carried out on Jack Nicholson for his title role in the £25 million film Hoffa , a gritty saga about Sixties Teamsters boss Jimmy .
58 The most common request is that everything should be set back the way it was at time X and it should appear as though the work carried out on package Y never happened at all !
59 Because so little work had been carried out on Hector 's dolphin before Slooten and Dawson began their studies , it is impossible to even guess at the number of dolphins which had been annually killed before 1984 .
60 There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time .
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