Example sentences of "carried [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edith qualified at the very first Medau Society Teachers ' Examination in 1955 , and carried on developing classes in Essex , all the time making openings for the new teachers who were beginning to emerge . |
| 2 | Sometimes after their formal prayers , which were said a minimum of five times a day , they continued to sit with their feet in front of them while they carried on long conversations with God . |
| 3 | The old slogan , carried on many union banners and enshrined in rule books , holds that ‘ Knowledge is Power ’ ; the present weaknesses of British trade union education call into question its ability to support those active members who are trying to resist and counteract ideological dominance , let alone revive the old ambition of a learning that would emancipate the oppressed and engender social change . |
| 4 | These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres . |
| 5 | The Soviet plan would scrap all nuclear mines , torpedoes and depth charges , as well as cruise missiles and nuclear bombs and missiles carried on naval aircraft . |
| 6 | Its counterpart on Ermine Street was a two-phase structure , beginning life as a building measuring 25.9 by 13.1 m ( 84½ by 43 ft ) , with a shingled roof carried on two rows of massive posts 5.8 m ( 19ft ) apart . |
| 7 | Landsat 4 has another sensor called the multispectral scanner which is a copy of that carried on earlier members of the Landsat family . |
| 8 | It was established by a motion carried on 12 December 1948 . |
| 9 | This tirade , carried on vodka-laden breath , is a classic instance of Dostoevsky 's apocalyptic naturalism working on two levels at once . |
| 10 | The underframes carried on six-wheeled bogies were identical . |
| 11 | Fashioned from smoky green glass , tightly corked and wired , they would be packed with straw for protection and carried on wooden poles slotted through their individual baskets of woven metal . |
| 12 | To these weapons , NATO 's response has long been the Polaris and Poseidon missiles carried on nuclear submarines . |
| 13 | So it was again a great disappointment for me but er , we carried on this struggle . |
| 14 | In France , as in many Continental countries , there was a two-tier freight system , parcel ( grande vitesse ) , carried in passenger trains , and goods ( petite vitesse ) , carried on special freight trains . |
| 15 | Cowley never looked anything less than dapper , in his long black greatcoat , bowler hat on head , umbrella carried over left arm , despite the chauffeured car that was waiting for him not more than a hundred yards away . |
| 16 | She stood up with total aplomb , and carried off first prize for her rendering of a " Purple Pussycat " . |
| 17 | In Normandy , the army under the command of the Earl of Warwick sacked Carentan and carried off huge quantities of plunder , while Froissart observed that after the sack of Caen the English ‘ won an amazing quantity of wealth for themselves ’ , and ‘ sent boats and barges laden with their gains — clothes , jewellery , gold and silver plate and many other valuable things — down the river to Ouistreham where their main fleet lay ’ . |
| 18 | Four European Community ( EC ) member countries carried out various stages of the ratification process in late October and November . |
| 19 | However , reports in the Hong Kong and Western media alleged that some students carried out various acts of protest in late May and early June . |
| 20 | Some groups were organised so that each worker carried out an independent part-task with little reference to the total task , whereas in other cases each worker had a commitment to the total task and carried out various sub-tasks in this context . |
| 21 | David Downes in The Delinquent Solution refers to a study of Chicago gangs carried out thirty years previously for support on this point . |
| 22 | Accordingly , we carried out Southern blot hybridization analysis of the P gene in a PWS patient who also has type II OCA . |
| 23 | MONTGOMERYSHIRE environmental health officers carried out 339 food hygiene visits under the Food Safety Act 1990 in March and April , resulting in 33 improvement notices being served for a total of 390 contraventions . |
| 24 | MONTGOMERYSHIRE environmental health officers carried out 339 food hygiene visits under the Food Safety Act 1990 in March and April . |
| 25 | Lapsley and Prowle ( 1978 ) carried out comprehensive surveys that lent considerable weight to the reforms suggested in the working group 's report . |
| 26 | Fama carried out similar tests for 30 randomly selected firms quoted on the NYSE . |
| 27 | It is interesting to compare these figures with the results of a survey of interim reporting carried out 10 years ago for the Institute publication The role of interim accounts and preliminary profit announcements in financial reporting in the UK ( 1982 ) . |
| 28 | The World Bank has postponed payment of a loan to Thailand to complete a large dam across the Mool River , 570 kilometres northeast of Bangkok , until the government has analyzed independent environmental-impact studies and carried out new assessments of its own . |
| 29 | Phelps Dodge Corporation NL , and later Consolidated Gold Fields Ltd , carried out regional exploration , mainly using stream sediment geochemistry with limited follow-up , over most of the Scottish Caledonide granitoids in the 1970s . |
| 30 | All the same , he wished he 'd paid a little more attention to what had gone on when he 'd been leaving the depot so that he could have spotted when they carried out that trick with the form he was supposed to have dropped . |