Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This blocky layer is carried along on top of the moving flow , looking for all the world like rocks on a conveyor belt in a quarry . |
| 2 | The Sri Lankan army carried out on Sept. 2-25 a further successful offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) in the northern jungle area around Mullaittivu [ see p. 38392 for major government victory at Elephant Pass in August ] , admitting a death toll of only 73 soldiers but claiming to have killed over 600 guerrillas . |
| 3 | Surgery carried out on Sept. 11 revealed that he had prostate cancer , but when he left hospital on Sept. 16 he declared that he saw no reason to retire early . |
| 4 | A major military reshuffle was carried out on Sept. 9 involving 557 senior officers down to the level of colonel . |
| 5 | The report includes details of work carried out on milk from two farms near Bolsover , Derbyshire , which was found to contain high levels of dioxins ( Chem . |
| 6 | He sounded people out and found the responses favourable , so he set about to prepare the finest survey to have been carried out on Manchester up to that time and indeed up to the time of Charles Roeder 's article , late in the 19th century . |
| 7 | Several trial runs were carried out on Anerley Hill , to test the special anti-run-back brakes , with which they were fitted , using trolleybus No. 65 , which was purposely dewired several times on the hill to make sure that the brake really worked and for the benefit of the press . |
| 8 | Tests carried out on mice have been encouraging . |
| 9 | Tests have already been carried out on mice in Cambridge . |
| 10 | Application development can be carried out on MS-DOS personal computers , the IBM RS/6000 , and DEC , Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems workstations . |
| 11 | Today Mark joined his colleagues for a training session in Armagh during which fitness tests were carried out on Mark and John Grimley , Ciaran McGurk and Gerard Houlahan . |
| 12 | Although similar requisitions were carried out on treasures in museums , it did seem that the state had finally decided to test the power of the Orthodox Church on a socially explosive question . |
| 13 | In 1942 , 1943 and 1944 surveys were carried out on camp school children , and to the Board 's amazement they indicated that such children actually experienced retarded growth rates . |
| 14 | Similar studies have been carried out on axes from the British Isles and , whilst the same alloys were used , the time scale of their introduction and use was quite different . |
| 15 | His abrupt departure from positions of influence in Senegalese politics had been signalled in an extensive Cabinet reshuffle carried out on March 27 , when he was dropped from the post of Secretary-General to the Presidency and Minister of State , a post he had held since January 1981 . |
| 16 | Salvage excavations are those carried out on sites where destruction has already begun , often because the site was unknown before construction work started . |
| 17 | LEFT Excavations are usually carried out on sites scheduled for development , so that the archaeological evidence can never be displayed on the site . |
| 18 | Ninety per cent of its operations are carried out on sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) . |
| 19 | Key changes in a Cabinet reshuffle carried out on July 12 , 1990 , were the appointments of Gazana and Nzabahimana in place of Anastase Nteziryayo and Juvénal Uwilingiyimana [ for a full Cabinet list as of May 1990 see p. 37554 ; for February 1991 Cabinet reshuffle see p. 37993 ] . |
| 20 | An underground nuclear test , the first by the Soviet Union for almost a year , was carried out on Oct. 24 on Novaya Zemlya island inside the Arctic Circle . |
| 21 | They worked steadily , dealing first with patients who had come for audio testing , an important part of the health screening programmes that were regularly carried out on members of the workforce . |
| 22 | In addition , the Medway Letter Line is the basis for calculating the cost benefit of all schemes carried out on rivers by water authorities and other organizations . |
| 23 | They raised them to 100% so that all secondary education was to be carried out on selection by merit.47 |
| 24 | Less work has been carried out on copper , but the little that has ( e.g. Manser 1977 , pp. 22–3 ) indicates a very wide range of composition , matched by the range found in Roman copper alloys which may suggest extensive use of scrap such as that found in bags accompanying skeletons ( Myres 1978 ) . |
| 25 | Before we consider why processing load might be greater at the end of a clause than at the beginning , we will discuss some experiments which have been carried out on reading , from which a similar pattern has emerged . |
| 26 | To date , successful experiments have been carried out on rice and tomato to produce hybrids , but no such crops are available on a commercial basis . |
| 27 | Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida carried out on Aug. 30 an extensive Cabinet reshuffle , involving the departure of nine ministers . |
| 28 | Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida carried out on Aug. 30 an extensive Cabinet reshuffle , involving the departure of nine ministers . |
| 29 | A major Cabinet reshuffle carried out on Aug. 26 by Prime Minister Maj.-Gen. |
| 30 | The tests were based on European Standards , adapted to conditions in the home , and were carried out on Maples ' 100% nylon twist-pile carpet and on tiled flooring . |