Example sentences of "carry on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He at once declared his intention to carry on as Prime Minister . |
| 2 | If non-farming activities reach the VAT registration threshold , farmers will be required to register for all their activities , farming and non-farming , and will not be able to carry on as flat rate farmers . |
| 3 | Webb has constantly said he is happy to carry on at Old Trafford and fight for his place . |
| 4 | Items to carry on to future agendas included the MacDonalds and affiliation and working with other groups . |
| 5 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 6 | The idea is that when an instruction that is meant for a coprocessor is encountered , the coprocessor handles it leaving the main processor to carry on with other jobs . |
| 7 | The initial emphasis of the project was therefore linguistic and , clinically examined , it might have appeared that to carry on with current curricula , making the change of language policy the only variable , would have made for more easily comparable results . |
| 8 | But how did Charlie feel kissing and making love to one of the pop world 's latest idol , especially , as some on-set mischief makers suggested the two had got on so well , their celluloid games carried on into real life . |
| 9 | For example , what if Mr Heath had won the February 1974 general election , as he nearly did , and carried on as Prime Minister ? |
| 10 | It is only in the states of Western Europe , in the countries of the British Commonwealth , in the United States of America , and in a few Latin-American states that government is carried on with due regard to the limitations imposed by a Constitution ; it is only in these states that truly ‘ constitutional government ’ can be said to exist … |
| 11 | Section 10 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 and s.213 of the Insolvency Act 1986 together provide that if in the course of winding up it appears that any business of the company has been carried on with intent to defraud creditors of the company or other persons , or for any fraudulent purpose , the liquidator may apply to the court for a declaration that any persons who were knowingly parties to such fraudulent trading are liable to make such contributions to the company 's assets as the court thinks proper . |
| 12 | Joanne had carried on with normal life as best she could , even going to discos at seven months pregnant , and all-night parties . |
| 13 | This becomes technically possible for Cabinet government , a private practice carried on between appointed adults , only when the Cabinet Office archive has become available under the thirty-year rule . |
| 14 | The widest definition of the Crown in the cases is that of Lord Diplock in Town Investments Ltd. v. Department of Environment who said of the term that it is ‘ appropriate to embrace both collectively and individually all the Ministers of the Crown and parliamentary secretaries under whose direction the administrative work of government is carried on by civil servants in the various government departments ’ . |
| 15 | is carried on by private study under supervision . |
| 16 | The distinction here is between two very distinct schools of harpsichord-making ; a tradition carried on by native craftsmen who flourished during the first 25 years of the 18th century and an imported tradition initiated by Hermann Tabel that displaced its native rival as effectively as a cuckoo might take charge in a sparrow 's nest . |
| 17 | In the first half of the seventeenth century the Dutch East India Company , for example , still sent representatives of its own to negotiate with European powers ; but by its end any diplomatic activity in Europe carried on by non-sovereign entities was a curiosity without practical significance . |
| 18 | In 1839 , the Chinese decided to end the lucrative opium trade carried on by British merchants . |
| 19 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 20 | These were low-paid , largely female , occupations mainly unmechanized and carried on in small workshops . |
| 21 | There are many businesses that can be carried on in rural and residential areas without causing unacceptable disturbance … |
| 22 | Arguments over the validity of the notice and justification of the motives of the partners serving it are better left to an appropriate tribunal ( judge , arbitrator or mediator ) than carried on in acrimonious correspondence . |
| 23 | Negotiations were carried on in secret and the results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli . |
| 24 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |
| 25 | Trained civil staff is much below the normal level and can not carry on without military help . |
| 26 | Do not carry on with large water changes , however , as these only perpetuate the problem . |
| 27 | But the prohibition on the carrying on of unauthorised investment business is also underpinned by new civil remedies . |
| 28 | By way of shorthand I will refer to third parties who , with the requisite knowledge , were concerned in the carrying on of unauthorised investment business as responsible third parties . |
| 29 | But if they were knowingly involved in the carrying on of unauthorised investment business that provides the rationale for orders against them under section 6(2) . |
| 30 | The rights and duties of the leasehold tenant are , as a rule , explicitly provided for by the terms of the lease , which will contain covenants such as those relating to payment of rent , repair , cultivation , and building , or forbidding the carrying on of certain trades . |