Example sentences of "carried [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 2 | This trade carried on for many years , but as a result of more advantageously located competition , it finally ceased working in about 1930 . |
| 3 | Let him go ’ , so the interpreter sat down and M. Ver carried on for five minutes more . |
| 4 | Eventually Jim 's old caddie came out of the woodwork again and I carried on for one or two other pros . |
| 5 | He carried on for two days but finally , in excruciating pain , had to go to hospital when a splint was put on his damaged limb . |
| 6 | The conversation carried on for half an hour and then they parted company as she went to work and he went off to his job . |
| 7 | The group carried on for another album and a few more singles but the charts were changing , and their time was up . |
| 8 | She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack . |
| 9 | McDougall carried on for another three years , when he was succeeded by Leslie Edwards . |
| 10 | ‘ Please do n't bother , ’ he said nervously , envisaging himself carried off for criminal libel . |
| 11 | In a recent survey carried out for New Woman magazine , 500 women aged between 20 and 45 were asked about their personal experiences of losing weight . |
| 12 | Finally , although this is not yet a specific NRC rule , the commission is directing considerable attention to overall risk assessment carried out for specific plant and sites . |
| 13 | Of the half million tests carried out for regulatory purposes in the year up to June 30 , 1989 , we are pleased to report that 998 out of 1,000 met the strict specifications of the European Community Directive . |
| 14 | the assessment of speaking and listening should , where possible , be informal , continuous and incidental , applied to tasks carried out for curricular purposes ; |
| 15 | The close links between the two continued , with dyeing carried out for both at Stanley . |
| 16 | Steel used in the reactor pressure vessels of the Trawsfynydd nuclear power plant , Wales , is showing signs of rapid deterioration , according to analysis carried out for Nuclear Electric . |
| 17 | The geochemical characteristics of specific formations can be quickly established and searches carried out for geochemical patterns associated with various styles of mineralisation . |