Example sentences of "carrying on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By working at the maltings was carrying on a tradition started by his grandfather , who had been a leading maltster at the same maltings . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " 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 … " |
| 7 | Joseph Anthony Villa , boss of the company since 1966 , admitted 13 charges of carrying on a food business in unclean premises . |
| 8 | In partnership , which is ‘ the relation which subsists between persons carrying on a business in common with a view of profit ’ , every partner is an agent of the firm and of the other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership . |
| 9 | According to the Partnership Act 1890 a partnership is an association of persons carrying on a business in common with a view to profit . |
| 10 | The name of the individual carrying on a business as a sole trader . |
| 11 | You are carrying on a business if you sell or barter any of the livestock or their produce . |
| 12 | Partnership is the relationship which subsists between persons carrying on a business in common with a view of profit . |
| 13 | Common sense tells us that this requires some form of trading activity , and although this will cover such things as the purchase of raw materials , capital equipment , etc. , it should be noted that if such actions were merely preparatory to the later formation of a company then these can not be considered as the actions of a partnership ‘ carrying on a business ’ . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal held , however , that there was no partnership in existence , since no business was being carried on by the defendant and X ; on the contrary , the goods had been ordered in preparation for the formation of a company , and such transactions could not be considered as ‘ carrying on a business ’ . |
| 15 | The court was , I think , going no further than was necessary to decide the case before it : the corporation was a private corporation formed under an Act of Parliament which was capable of holding property and of carrying on a business . |
| 16 | Lord Porter , who delivered the only speech , referred to a number of earlier cases dealing with the construction of ‘ carrying on a business ’ for the purposes of jurisdiction over the separate property of married women . |
| 17 | The court held that , despite its literal width , the expression did not embrace two Chileans resident in Chile who had never been to England , although they were partners with persons in England carrying on a business here . |
| 18 | Criminal and civil liability under Part II of the Consumer Protection Act attaches only to persons who are acting ‘ in the course of carrying on a business . ’ |
| 19 | Another is to be found in the Business Advertisements ( Disclosure ) Order 1977 , which is designed to prevent a business advertising goods , e.g. in the small ads of a newspaper , without the advertisement making clear that the seller is indeed carrying on a business . |
| 20 | Like his father , Isaac became the leading figure in the Jewish community of Norwich , carrying on a family tradition of financial support for rabbinical study which earned Eliab , Isaac , and Isaac 's own sons Moses and Samuel the honorific title , HaNadib , ‘ the generous ’ . |
| 21 | A number of cases have dealt with the valuation of fittings attached to or used in connection with land , whether freehold or leasehold , and associated products and machinery , whether in farms , public houses or factories : see : ( 1 ) for a farming example , Leeds v Burrows ( 1810 ) 12 East 1 , where the value of the outgoing tenant 's hay and a " spike-roll " had to be assessed ; ( 2 ) for a public house , Smith v Peters ( 1875 ) 2O LR Eq 511 , where the household furniture , fixtures and other effects were to be valued ; and ( 3 ) for a factory , Jones ( M ) v Jones ( R R ) [ 1971 ] 1 WLR 840 , where there was a small company carrying on a family business of manufacturing and retailing woollen goods , and there needed to be a valuation of the premises and the machinery . |
| 22 | She could not bind herself personally , with the result that she could not be made a bankrupt , unless she was carrying on a trade . |
| 23 | The transaction in the new site will be undertaken by Tradeco , which will be regarded as carrying on a trade . |
| 24 | The relevant statute in those cases had provided simply that jurisdiction should exist over a married woman ‘ carrying on a trade separately from her husband . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance , profits tax shall be charged for each year of assessment at the standard rate on every person carrying on a trade , profession or business in Hong Kong in respect of his assessable profits arising in or derived from Hong Kong for that year from such trade , profession or business ( excluding profits arising from the sale of capital assets ) as ascertained in accordance with this Part . |
| 26 | To obtain interest relief on loans to subscribe shares in a Newco which is to purchase the business of , rather than shares in , Target , it appears that management no longer has the difficulty of persuading the Revenue that Newco " exists wholly or mainly for the purpose of carrying on a trade … " , as required by s13A(2) ( a ) . |
| 27 | There the Revenue argued that , at the time the tax payers subscribed their shares , Newco did not exist for the purpose of carrying on a trade ; its only identifiable purpose was to acquire a business . |
| 28 | The new company must be an unquoted company carrying on a trade , or the holding company of one or more trading subsidiaries . |
| 29 | Management will want to ensure that Newco is a company which " exists for the purpose of carrying on a trade or trades on a commercial basis " within s13A(2) TA 1988 , and that this purpose test is satisfied from the commencement of its first accounting period . |
| 30 | Where Newco is carrying on a trade and incurs capital expenditure after 9 March 1992 in acquiring user rights to computer software , plant and machinery , capital allowances are available for such expenditure ( see s67A Capital Allowances Act 1990 ) . |