Example sentences of "carry on an [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Oblivious to her injuries , Thomas Duke would have carried his daughter back to their cottage in his arms , though it is conceivable that she was carried on an old door or something .
2 A delegation travelled to Lisbon to present their case ; FLEC-Renewal president José Tiburcio Luemba called on Portugal to revise the agreements which had brought about the independence of Angola in 1975 , and said that his movement would carry on an armed struggle until independence for Cabinda had been achieved .
3 Yet , as Samuel warns : ‘ even if nation is expelled from the class-room , it will still carry on an underground existence in the corridors and playground and an altogether more uninhibited one on television and the football terraces .
4 under sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Financial Services Act 1986 against a firm of solicitors who acted for a person carrying on an unauthorised investment business .
5 Probably publicans were just carrying on an old tradition of involvement in popular sports .
6 The younger John claimed that Langton had been carrying on an adulterous relationship with his stepmother Joan .
7 If this is true ( and it is not so far-fetched : if you carry on an intelligent argument with your readers in the columns of a newspaper , you can not expect them to believe that the responsibilities of self-government are beyond them ) , then it would seem a good example of propaganda having the opposite effect to that intended .
8 Certain infallible rules have been established , and we carry on an unvarying routine in which we apply the same theory to the same cases . ’
9 For calorie counters , 1,500 to 2,000 calories per day should be enough to maintain correct weight and carry on an active life .
10 They carried on an extensive trade in a variety of products such as cattle cake , seed corn , manure and farm fertilisers .
11 From about April 1988 to March 1989 the first defendant , Pantell S.A. , a company incorporated under the laws of Switzerland , carried on an unauthorised investment business in the United Kingdom .
12 Freeman and slave , patrician and plebeian , lord and serf , guildmaster and journeyman , in a word oppressor and oppressed , stood in constant opposition to one another , carried on an uninterrupted , now hidden , now open fight , a fight that each time ended either in a revolutionary reconstruction of society at large , or in the common ruin of the contending classes . ’
13 Freeman and slave , patrician and plebeian , lord and serf , guildmaster and journeymen , in a word , oppressor and oppressed , stood in constant opposition to one another , carried on an uninterrupted , now hidden , now open fight … ’
14 Napoleon III carried on an active personal diplomacy , not merely without the knowledge of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate , but behind the backs of his own ministers .
15 ‘ Any person who on any premises — as aforesaid , carries on an offensive trade without such consent , if any , as at the date of establishment of the trade was required by subsection ( 1 ) of this section … shall be liable for a fine not exceeding £5 for every day on which he carried on the trade — after receiving notice from the local authority to discontinue the trade ’ .
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