Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gulliver wanted to step down in August because of business commitments but was asked to carry on by chairman Wallace Mercer until the club had made a decision about a new stadium . |
| 2 | Most departments had their offices , though there were constant difficulties about telephones and electricity supplies , and very little in the way of fans ; communications between departments had to be carried on by messenger , for internal postal services were taking time to be reorganised . |
| 3 | Some activities , distribution , haulage , advertising and marketing , may be carried through by specialist firms who also provide these services for other industries . |
| 4 | No cause of death is given , but we may make an informed guess , for all that , that a man whose elder brother had been carried off by consumption was himself the victim of that ‘ white plague ’ which accounted for one-third of all deaths in the early years of the 19th century . |
| 5 | Little Horace Charles was carried off by pneumonia at the tender age of eight months , but Ernest William , Henry James and Herbert George were healthy young children crawling or toddling around those rooms in Wilmington Square . |
| 6 | Good food shops in the village , but a great saving can be made if the bulk of provision is bought in Grenoble and carried up by bus or car . |
| 7 | In particular , the Group suggested that guidance on the subjects of specialist valuations ( when carried out by audit firms ) and opinion shopping was needed . |
| 8 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Colombia was reported yesterday to be seeking the extradition of a suspected cocaine baron held in neighbouring Ecuador as a wave of bombings , believed to have been carried out by drug traffickers , continued . |
| 9 | A skilled occupation is a more accurate description of the task-oriented kind of care carried out by tradition . |
| 10 | The first major test of the APT was carried out by Roll and Ross and published in 1980 . |
| 11 | Detective Supt Gareth Jones , deputy head of North Wales CID , has been called in to head the inquiry and a post-mortem examination was carried out by Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Waite . |
| 12 | A postmortem examination at Middlesbrough General Hospital carried out by Home Office pathologist Dr James Sunter revealed that Mr McEvoy , who worked for a local bus company , died of a gunshot wound . |
| 13 | Day-to-day running of the trust is carried out by specialist fund managers , often by merchant banks . |
| 14 | ‘ They hope that the inquiry to be carried out by South Birmingham Health Authority will be a full inquiry and will ensure that errors such as they have experienced will not occur again . |
| 15 | Work carried out by allergy specialists has proved that there is now no doubt that ill-health can result when such additives are consumed ; fits and hyperactivity in children is one of the most common complaints ; workers in food factories processing additives have also been known to suffer , common ailments being respiratory problems and skin diseases . |
| 16 | Detectives dismissed the theory the attack was carried out by animal rights activists after the farm owner found the bodies of two pigs . |
| 17 | If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour . |
| 18 | ‘ Although the heavy work is carried out by landscape contractors I love it when I can get out and add a few personal touches , ’ she says . |
| 19 | By the blurring of the division between those needing residential care and those needing nursing home care this privatisation is being carried out by stealth and is often not recognised by those working with elderly people . |
| 20 | The most extensive exploration programme was carried out by Exploration Ventures Ltd ( a joint venture between Consolidated Gold Fields and Rio Tinto-Zinc ) . |
| 21 | They may , for example , be an adjunct to the use of Taylorism , where fragmented work leads t o the use of particular types of organisation structure , whereas co-ordination of the same overall task , if it were carried out by craft workers on an integrated basis , might be carried out by means of a much simpler organisation structure . |
| 22 | The production of tapes for the composition contractor and the taking of security versions of current work will also be carried out by Computer Services . |
| 23 | The analysis of the RPD is best carried out by computer since it involves tracing every possible path through the network and calculating the cumulative probability for each path . |
| 24 | Narin 's seminal Report to the Foundation , carried out by Computer Horizons Inc. on data from the Science Citation Index , represents the first major effort by any country 's scientific policy-makers , to use bibliometric indicators to forecast and plan research expenditure on a national scale , although Price had , in 1969 , related the size of a country 's scientific literature to its Gross National Product ( GNP ) . |
| 25 | On the other hand , if the simulation is to be carried out by computer a way must be found of getting the computer to generate random sequences of numbers such as would be obtained by throwing a dice a number of times . |
| 26 | The analysis of the RPD is best carried out by computer since it involves tracing every possible path through the network and calculating the cumulative probability for each path . |
| 27 | This position will involve the day-to-day management of a number of electrochemically based projects being carried out by PhD Students and postdoctoral research fellows , embracing the study of bulk and interfacial properties of both liquid and solid electrodes and electrolytes . |
| 28 | He said arranging flowers and cleaning vases was carried out by crematorium staff and was becoming very time consuming . |
| 29 | to reduce the functions carried out by government departments where those functions could be more effectively carried out elsewhere ; |
| 30 | Capital punishment in Japan is carried out by hanging . |