Example sentences of "carry on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 2 | When she first begins to talk , she uses two different types of speech : egocentric speech , a kind of monologue , when she chatters on without bothering to know whom she is speaking to or even whether they are listening ; and socialized speech , a sign of growing maturity and decentring , when she tries to carry on a conversation , reacting to what the other person says . |
| 3 | It is pretty difficult to carry on a conversation like that , let alone write a scientific paper . |
| 4 | Once authorisation to carry on a banking business has been granted by the home member state to a bank in accordance with the Community 's essential requirements , the Community legislative approach is to require the host country in which the bank may wish to provide cross-border services or establish a branch to recognise the validity of that authorisation , and to allow it to do so without making additional ‘ authorisation ’ requirements to the bank . |
| 5 | The benefit of planning permission to carry on a business from premises is normally lost by a subsequent change of use of those premises . |
| 6 | Treaty , freely to carry on a business . |
| 7 | He faced a prison sentence , and in his eagerness to keep his client out of prison , defending QC Mr Christmas Humphreys claimed that Trevor had been overworking and was drinking ‘ to give him the energy to carry on a task that was almost more than he could bear ’ . |
| 8 | If they were found worthy they were given help , including cash and the tools to carry on a trade , help in finding a job and regular visitation and advice until they could ‘ stand on their own feet ’ . |
| 9 | This argument was rejected on the basis that , from its formation , Newco 's wider purpose was to carry on a trade and that was why it was acquiring the business . |
| 10 | It 's a peculiar way to carry on a war , is n't it ? |
| 11 | It begins to sound from this description that it 's I twelve which is a bit of a dinosaur , a a dodo , that this is a county trying to carry on a thing which has probably passed its sell by date , that er it is n't fair to say that I five is primarily for industry , erm that is n't what the law says it is . |
| 12 | Since the δ-endotoxin is coded for by a single gene , which is usually carried on a plasmid , it has been relatively easy to locate and clone these genes from a number of strains of Bt and to express them in other organisms . |
| 13 | Caesar was the first Roman to allow his own portrait to appear on coins minted at Rome and elsewhere in his lifetime ; his statue was carried on a litter , and set next to statues of the gods . |
| 14 | This was also carried on a division ; the Government accepted their defeat and did not seek to reverse the decision . |
| 15 | It was not a weapon which was capable of being carried on a belt or in a sash . |
| 16 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |
| 17 | Mr Bresslaw had collapsed once before , in October last year , and on that occasion he had to be carried on a stretcher out of a show business dinner . |
| 18 | We w we was partnerships you see well when our place collapsed they carried on just carried on a bit because they were connected with Japan . |
| 19 | Brachiopod feeding is carried out by the lophophore ( p. 61 ) , a ciliated band usually carried on a loop , which also creates the currents used in feeding . |
| 20 | ’ Is that a volatile load to be carried on a motorway ? ’ |
| 21 | I might carry on a bit tomorrow . |
| 22 | Role-play might carry on a topic begun through the use of stories . |
| 23 | Everything is made to change just in the nick of time , and even the return letter office suspends its laws that Jane Eyre may carry on a tale with effect . |
| 24 | Three conditions must be satisfied before a charge to tax can arise under section 14 : ( 1 ) the taxpayer must carry on a trade , profession or business in Hong Kong ; ( 2 ) the profits to be charged must be ‘ from such trade , profession or business , ’ which their Lordships construe to mean from the trade , profession or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong ; ( 3 ) the profits must be ‘ profits arising in or derived from ’ Hong Kong . |
| 25 | By working at the maltings was carrying on a tradition started by his grandfather , who had been a leading maltster at the same maltings . |
| 26 | She loved sitting up with the children until long past bedtime , playing silly games or just holding them in her arms and carrying on a conversation at their absurd level . |
| 27 | In an attempt to counter their rise , NME became more and more lifestyle-oriented , dabbling in fashion and ideology to an ever-greater extent and carrying on a crusade for black music with a barely disguised contempt for mainstream rock . |
| 28 | Radio Cameroon said that two people were killed , many injured and 219 arrested ; it also alleged that " certain foreign radio stations " were carrying on a disinformation campaign against Cameroon . |
| 29 | An EEIG may be formed by persons , firms or companies ( or indeed other bodies , whether incorporated or not ) in the EC , but not by non-EC bodies ; individuals must be carrying on a trading or service activity ( including the provision of professional services ) and bodies may be public or quasi-public . |
| 30 | " The meeting having considered the application of the Schoolmaster of Kildaltan for the payment of the sum he expended upon building his House — they have examined said accot. — and reprobate the conduct of the Schoolmaster in carrying on a work of such magnitude without authority — and they refuse to countenance such conduct … " |