Example sentences of "to carry [adv] a [noun sg] " 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 | Benny had elected to carry only a revolver , though she had tucked a couple of grenades in the pockets of a second safari jacket she had pilfered from the TARDIS 's wardrobe . |
| 13 | In 1851 , which , with symbolic appropriateness , was the year in which a hungry urban population exceeded for the first time the population of the countryside , drainage-minded landlords up from the shires were able to carry away a wealth of interesting ideas from the Great Exhibition . |
| 14 | I have to drop the work on the catalogue and get into my studio for a few hours each day to carry further a painting which began as a request : it is called ‘ War Games ’ . |
| 15 | A useful technique to employ in such situations is to carry out a pasture larval count on the field on which the animals had been grazing . |
| 16 | However , recent technological advances have made possible a robot which can be programmed to carry out a range of services on command . |
| 17 | When survey data are coded and punched for analysis by computer it is all too easy to ask the computer to carry out a range of cross-tabulations of one factor by another . |
| 18 | The money helps BCE to carry out a range of initiatives , including the provision of soft loans for new businesses , managed workshops for new businesses , low-cost premises for expanding businesses , training for ex-mineworkers and job shops . |
| 19 | As part of the 1993 Business Challenge , organised by the Industrial Society , schools teamed up with companies to carry out a range of special projects . |
| 20 | A SENIOR consultant admitted yesterday that the decision to carry out a Caesarian section on an expectant mother was left too late . |
| 21 | The decision to carry out a Caesarian section should perhaps have been taken after the 4.30pm examination when the heartbeat was known to have decelerated , he said . |
| 22 | Only on pagan sites converted into other uses by Christians would it have been necessary to carry out a purification ceremony involving the use of the Chi-Rho symbol . |
| 23 | One of the students had tried to carry out a literature search during the summer , before coming on the course . |
| 24 | So you knew how to carry out a literature search before you came on this course ? |
| 25 | In respect of the Cossacks , Robertson was simply giving authorization to Eighth Army to carry out a course of action suggested by Eighth Army and " recommended by Macmillan " . |
| 26 | But where thousands of claimants did not receive repayments to which they were entitled because of errors of local officials the Court of Appeal held that the Minister was not obliged to carry out a fullscale review of files . |
| 27 | You see , the more people you hire to carry out a plot , the greater the danger of betrayal ; either through a mistake , or a bribe , or simply by one of your minions being caught red-handed . ’ |
| 28 | Basil Noble , Pine Grove , Darlington : I went to Runswick Bay to carry out a probate valuation . |
| 29 | It is therefore impracticable to carry out a trial of a single homoeopathic remedy versus a single orthodox drug or placebo , although this approach has been tried . |
| 30 | Atiyah , op. cit. ( pp. 34–38 ) , referring to the bills of exchange position before the 1882 Act , to ‘ golden handshake ’ transactions and forbearance to sue , and the one-time ability to enforce a promise to pay a statute-barred debt ( abolished by the Limitation Acts ) and to enforce a promise to carry out a promise given for consideration during infancy ( abolished by the Infants Relief Act 1874 ) argues that ‘ … the rule about past consideration is too broadly stated . |