Example sentences of "carrying [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to one of the skippers , each hunting trip cost on average over US$130 more than the crew received for the catch — the fishermen were simply carrying on a proud and noble tradition , even though it cost them money . |
| 2 | This is carrying on a long tradition of Eastern Centre get-togethers for E H Os , we 've done residential courses every two years for I do n't know how many years . |
| 3 | For the last few days she had seen them , not as her parents but as two hating individuals carrying on a private war behind screens . |
| 4 | Further , even smaller corporates may be treated as non-private under Rule 5 — 5(4) where they : ( a ) are carrying on a main business which is not investment business ; ( b ) enter into a futures transaction as an integral part of its main business ; ( c ) have , in the firm 's reasonable belief , sufficient experience and understanding to waive protections provided for private customers ; and ( d ) have received a clear warning of the protections under the regulatory system which they would lose , including a statement of its rights to request to be treated as a private customer . |
| 5 | More significant for domestic purposes is s10(4) ( b ) and ( c ) which give the retailer a defence provided : ( i ) that he supplied the goods , offered or agreed to supply them or , as the case may be , exposed or possessed them for supply in the course of carrying on a retail business ; and ( ii ) that , at the time he supplied the goods or offered or agreed to supply them or exposed or possessed them for supply , he neither knew nor had reasonable grounds for believing that the goods failed to comply with the general safety requirement ; or ( c ) that the terms on which he supplied the goods or agreed or offered to supply them or , in the case of goods which he exposed or possessed for supply , the terms on which he intended to supply them ( i ) indicated that the goods were not supplied or to be supplied as new goods ; and ( ii ) provided for , or contemplated , the acquisition of an interest in the goods by the persons supplied or to be supplied . |
| 6 | ‘ 4(1) The institution conducts , or , in the case of an institution which is not yet carrying on a deposit-taking business , will conduct its business in a prudent manner . |
| 7 | In London the winners held their celebration dinner at the Hotel Great Central , Marylebone , where Chapman praised the Town for carrying off a major prize while still relatively young ( the club was founded in 1908 ) . |
| 8 | Plants are normally under some form of stress — heat or light stress are two of many forms — but nevertheless plants are generally healthy , from which we may conclude that nature is continually carrying out a delicate balancing act among the contributing reactions making up the complete photosynthetic ‘ machinery ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Hellyer was capable of carrying out a simple crime ; he was practically incapable of taking sensible steps to avoid arrest afterwards . |
| 10 | I know that the National Audit Office has been carrying out a value-for-money study of NRA coast protection schemes . |
| 11 | First , neither the development of the ‘ visible hand ’ in coordinating ‘ vertical ’ flows from the extraction of raw materials through to final sales , nor the rise of the diversified corporation carrying out a planned allocation of resources between different product divisions , abolishes competition between capitalist enterprises . |
| 12 | Within hours of the killings Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir had accused Palestinians of provoking the police into the shootings by carrying out a planned attack on Jewish worshippers in an attempt to divert world attention from the Gulf crisis . |
| 13 | It was not suggested that either the solicitors , who were simply carrying out a straightforward conveyancing transaction , or Mrs G herself , had any criminal or quasi-criminal intent or were aware of the suspected intent of the alleged drug trafficker . |
| 14 | Schools thus slipped into the danger of carrying out a new range of management tasks without the benefit of fresh definitions . |
| 15 | MAGISTRATES granted bail yesterday to a 19-year-old man accused of carrying out a smash-and-grab raid at an Essex jewellers . |
| 16 | SECURITY forces were this afternoon carrying out a major search operation in the Bogside area of Londonderry . |
| 17 | For a while she became the priestess of her own cult of Assassins , carrying out a deadly ceremony which appeared suave and innocuous , but was not . |
| 18 | ‘ And it will look more as if you 're carrying out a professional duty . ’ |
| 19 | The previous section has brought to light some of the difficulties of carrying out a radical approach to the development of information systems in many organisations . |
| 20 | In a statement on Nov. 19 the Comoran Union for Progress ( Udzima ) announced that it was withdrawing support from its leader , President Said Mohammed Djohar , and going into opposition ; the statement accused Djohar of carrying out a political witch-hunt following an attempted coup and subsequent Cabinet reshuffle in August [ see p. 38378 ] . |
| 21 | At Warwick University ( England ) , doctors Steve Van Toller and George Dodd have been carrying out a great deal of research in recent years into the relationship between smell and emotion . |
| 22 | Thames Water Authority are in the process of carrying out a general refurbishment programme at the plant . |
| 23 | The Division has worked with one school in particular , Belfield Community School , Rochdale , in carrying out a five-year project designed to increase PITR . |
| 24 | Other duties , of course , could also be pretty tedious , especially when you were stuck carrying out a rotten job against your own sympathies , your loyalties divided . |
| 25 | We 're carrying out a joint hydrographic survey with them . ’ |
| 26 | The Gramophone Company 's record-producer Fred Gaisberg had the idea of carrying out a recording session ‘ supervised ’ by Sir Edward Elgar , then lying upon his deathbed in Worcestershire . |
| 27 | Researchers at Gloucesters public health laboratories have been carrying out a long term study into more than three hundred cases of meningitis . |
| 28 | I eventually exercised the leg , particularly carrying out a stretching routine and also used ice packs . |
| 29 | If we were carrying out a similar survey in the future , recording conversations , would you be willing to take part ? |
| 30 | In May 1978 the County Council began carrying out a technical feasibility study on a section of state forest in the Boggeragh Mountains between Rylane and Nadd , in the townland of Annagannihy . |