Example sentences of "carry out [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 For the past two years , a cross-party section of politicians , mountaineers , hillwalkers and fishermen has lobbied the Ministry of Defence to retain the unit at Leuchars , which since its inception in 1955 has carried out 2,731 rescues .
2 THE AUTHOR , Salman Rushdie , yesterday condemned the death edict against him as a ‘ terrorist threat ’ after Iran renewed its call for the sentence to be carried out four years after it was imposed .
3 In a report on the fighting on April 10 , Lao National Radio stated that government forces had recently carried out two campaigns against " bad and vandalistic " elements in the north-western province of Bolikhamsai .
4 A man who 's carried out two rapes and six indecent assaults in Milton Keynes , is believed to have struck again .
5 Assessment was carried out two days after the application of the dressing to ensure no adverse reaction had occurred , and then continued weekly .
6 Until 1764 , Josiah had concentrated successfully upon the manufacture of what he called ‘ useful wares ’ , but he had carried out many experiments to improve the rather crude ‘ Egyptian black ’ wares already made by a number of Staffordshire potters .
7 He pointed out that although they would automatically have carried out such precautions , water would always be found in the deeper parts of the mine .
8 Having carried out such interviews ( and no set limit to them can be laid down ) researchers may then make a start on their topic headings and detailed questions .
9 The operation was carried out 10 years ago at Huntingdon County Hospital , Cambs , when the couple decided their family was complete with daughter Samantha , now 15 .
10 The ministry of agriculture has carried out successful trials on the new tests but says the government has yet to make a final decision on wether to fully adopt the new system .
11 He indicated that a vigorous recovery programme was being carried out 90,000 reminders had been issued and thousands of summonses sent .
12 Dunn ( 1983 ; 1984 ) in Cambridge has carried out extensive observations of sibling relationships and the effects of general family functioning of the arrival of a new baby .
13 The Guild of British Tie Makers has carried out extensive research into tie wearing and has discovered that , far from being viewed as a current trend , the tie is considered an essential item in a man 's wardrobe .
14 To understand what IS happening in the Royal Family , TODAY has carried out extensive research .
15 The latest developer claims to have carried out extensive research into the feasibility of providing medical treatment in Darlington .
16 Today it is the home of Malcom and Gwynneth Hearne who have carried out extensive restoration work .
17 Drummond also carried out extensive tests to improve the efficiency of his locomotives .
18 Syrian radio reported on Dec. 17 that Assad had pardoned 2,864 persons who had " carried out anti-state acts " .
19 In December 1973 , Mr John Morris MP asked how many judges had carried out non-judicial duties in the form of inquiries , commissions and reports , or similar tasks , during the previous twenty years .
20 The father , Mr P , also an English incomer to Orkney , had carried out various forms of abuse over a long period of time .
21 It is a necessity because it provides the opportunity for reflection on how well you have carried out various tasks and whether there are better ways of doing things .
22 It is true that English Heritage has carried out frequent monitoring .
23 Often a rent-free period is not an inducement but just a rearrangement of the overall rent , or reflects the fact that the tenant can not put the building into use until he has carried out certain work .
24 Consultant ENT surgeon Mr S Kaluskar has carried out 220 tonsil , 58 sinus , and several larynx operations since the machine was installed in 1991 .
25 Since this work has been carried out other dictionaries have also become available .
26 Brearley was undoubtedly the pioneer of the commercial development of stainless steel , but his claim to have been the ‘ true and original inventor ’ is hard to sustain , as workers elsewhere had carried out similar experiments .
27 The derivations given here are due to the author and were published in the first edition , but Larson has also carried out similar work independently .
28 Vossen , Meijs and den Broeder [ 1988 ] have carried out similar studies of the meaning and structure in dictionary definitions , based on Dik 's [ 1987 ] ’ stepwise lexical decomposition ’ , which reduces the meaning of lexical items to a restricted set of basic lexical items .
29 In addition to building contract locomotives and rolling stock at the Sotteville workshops in Rouen , which employed some 2,000 men , Buddicom also carried out similar construction for the Orléans–Tours and Amiens–Boulogne railways , forerunners of the Paris–Orléans and Nord railway systems .
30 Neo-Nazi skinheads had carried out similar attacks on a smaller scale on a hostel in the Saxon town of Hoyerswerda in September 1991 [ see p. 38447 ] .
  Next page