Example sentences of "was carry [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The LRDG patrol which was to carry out a diversionary raid on Benina airfield decided to turn back as there was no longer enough time to drive there and back in darkness .
3 The next stage was to carry out a proper evaluation of the message , in an attempt to determine what was giving rise to the ambiguity ( i.e. , what was missing from the message ) .
4 The aim of the proposal was to carry out a visit of one month to France under the ESRC/CNTLS Exchange scheme for social scientists in order to pursue collaborative work on Time , the family and leisure
5 His last major task was to carry out a detailed study of the force 's structures for Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley earlier this year .
6 The purpose of Study 2 was to carry out a laboratory task which allowed measurement of feelings of risk and a controlled test of memory for driving situations .
7 BT 's response was to carry out an area trial , promising to keep me advised on progress .
8 The judge was to carry out an agreed investigation into the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989 in which 170 people died [ see p. 36910 ] .
9 De Alwis , Dr Netasinghe , head of the veterinary team , and the park rangers and trackers had another trump card in the person of the man who was to carry out the darting .
10 Its most important innovations were the provision of an annual conference of delegates , elected by the membership , and a rule that the executive committee , similarly elected , " was to carry out the business of the BDDA in accordance with the decisions of the delegates " conference " .
11 True it was that the plaintiff did not undertake to do any work additional to that which he had originally undertaken to do but the terms on which he was to carry out the work were varied and , in my judgment , that variation was supported by consideration which a pragmatic approach to the true relationship between the parties readily demonstrates .
12 The wounded German Officer was carried up the grassy bank and placed against a tree .
13 In a number of cases , grain was carried up the canal to the docks , was transhipped , and promptly retraced its steps along the canal to Saul Junction where it passed onto the Stroudwater Canal .
14 The noise of the car engine was carried up the the pipe and Mrs Jones was woken in the early hours of the morning .
15 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 .
16 The coffin was carried on a horse-drawn cart because it was a long time before a motor hearse became available .
17 I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance .
18 A vote was taken on this and was carried on a decisive majority .
19 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 .
20 And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter .
21 1836 It was moved that the dinner which had been assessed on the public be discontinued and was carried on the casting vote of the Chairman .
22 Cos of the design of this crusher affair , the whole weight was carried on the c what could be the bap of the bearing you know , the bearing cap .
23 The immunisation was carried out every four weeks and 10 ml of blood was collected one week after each injection and analysed for reactivity against PT-gliadin by dot blotting .
24 A comprehensive review of the problem of attempted suicide and its management was carried out a few years later by a committee chaired by Sir Denis Hill .
25 The complementary experiment was carried out a decade ago in the laboratory of the influential German school working on the origin of life under Manfred Eigen .
26 Until this study was carried out the individual elements of the FAOR methodology had been developed and tested in isolation , each being the responsibility of different organisations within the FAOR partnership .
27 Some of Kelly 's classmates lost the fight to hold back the tears as soon as her coffin was carried down the aisle .
28 We unlashed the mooring cables almost as the last bag of cement was carried down the gangplank .
29 She could not bind herself personally , with the result that she could not be made a bankrupt , unless she was carrying on a trade .
30 By working at the maltings was carrying on a tradition started by his grandfather , who had been a leading maltster at the same maltings .
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