Example sentences of "carried on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ We 'd all like to see less and less chemicals carried on the motorways , but unfortunately , it 's a fact of life that its one of the best ways for them to get the stuff around . ’ |
| 2 | In the yew trees nearby , birds sang and the hum of traffic and smell of exhaust fumes carried on the air . |
| 3 | As an infection carried on the air and in milk , diphtheria was not much affected by changes in living standards . |
| 4 | Henry carried on the milling and baking side , Thomas was the corn dealer and Edward the dairy man and grocer . |
| 5 | Mr Fagan then carried on the tradition , steering Liverpool to a championship-League Cup-European Cup treble the following year . |
| 6 | In 1814 , Samuel Webb leased the mill to Stephen and Edward Blackwell , who carried on the tradition of cloth making . |
| 7 | Mother carried on the tradition in our house and she was a talented musician . |
| 8 | Torturers were either trained policemen or soldiers , or they were special commando units , or they were trained in USA or Panama , or they simply carried on the tradition of civilian torture . |
| 9 | Among the groups in Essex who carried on the tradition yesterday were members of the Great Tey Footpath Preservation Society and villagers from neighbouring Chappel , who teamed up for a 14-mile walk around the boundaries of the two parishes . |
| 10 | The present lord carried on the tradition , helping to raise money for the work with a big concert at which the Queen Mother was a special guest . |
| 11 | Some of the structures simply ended , hanging in space ; others terminated in smaller versions of the main station , like a cluster of eggs carried on the leg of an insect ; still others , following their skewed paths , met and became united with each other , producing strange hybrids . |
| 12 | Nick Hornby ( ‘ Mine is the generation that was terrified of the Daleks and fell in love with Valerie Singleton ’ ) carried on the Sunday Times sniping last week : ‘ It could well be that my generation is about to burst into spectacular , awe-inspiring literary life ; perhaps this year we will be reading scores of novels as dazzling as London Fields or A History of the World in 10½ Chapters , all written by men and women born after Elvis ’ first number one . |
| 13 | Iris , who carried on the campaign started by her parents to clear Derek 's name , added : ‘ I wo n't give up now — no way . ’ |
| 14 | If the theatre is a long distance away from the ward , equipment may be taken from the ward on a post-operative tray or carried on the theatre trolley . |
| 15 | Loss or damage to personal effects and baggage taken , sent in advance or purchased on holiday ( including clothing and personal effects worn or carried on the person , trunks , suitcases and like receptacles ) . |
| 16 | At the same time , the proportion of freight carried on the railways between 1980 and 1990 dropped from 9% to 7% , while the proportion using road transport rose to 83% . |
| 17 | The people demonstrated their spirit when the whole country rose up , carried on the tide of revolution in Eastern Europe , and literally fought tooth and nail against their oppressors . |
| 18 | These problems are compounded by the weight of motor traffic — estimated at seven million vehicles per year — carried on the Alps ' narrow roads , which is exacerbating tree die-back due to acid rain . |
| 19 | Dan Wagoner 's own new work , first staged in Plymouth in October , has a jokey title , Turtles All The Way Down , and has something to do with a Bertrand Russell lecture when it was suggested that the Earth is not round but carried on the back of a giant tortoise which stands on turtles all the way down . |
| 20 | We carried on the traditions but young ones want to question everything , and maybe they 're right . ’ |
| 21 | The architect was Andrea Spezza ; the two men who carried on the work after his death , Vicenzo Boccaccio and Nicolo Sebregondi , followed his designs . |
| 22 | Gray died tragically early from smallpox when he had published a second edition ; but willing hands carried on the work , and the 35th edition was published by Longman in 1973 . |
| 23 | When convocation met in December 1373 even the prelates were alienated from the crown , or at least from Gaunt and those who carried on the government in the king 's name : the attempt to levy an unprecedented tax of £50,000 in 1371 had aroused great resentment , aggravated in the next year when , in an effort to speed its collection , all the bishops of the southern province had their temporalities seized . |
| 24 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |
| 25 | At Whitehall the petition was unloaded and carried on the shoulders of eight officers into the Commons . |
| 26 | Some carried on the family business , as had been typical in the past . |
| 27 | They had two sons , Thomas , who died at Leghorn , and Edward ( c .1681–1734 ) , who carried on the family business , becoming free of the Masons ' Company in 1702 and master in 1719 . |
| 28 | Dr. Tuke pioneered treatment of mental illness , and when he died , in 1855 , his two sons , Thomas and Edward , both being qualified doctors , carried on the practice . |
| 29 | And finally , as she went to bed , she heard them singing softly , shushing each other and giggling , as one clear voice ( Sue 's , she recognized ) carried on the melody . |
| 30 | There are many more , and to them have to be added the spores of fungal diseases , always produced in countless millions and ever-present , carried on the wind , ready to take advantage of easily-penetrated soft flabby tissue , a wound or a point of entry perhaps left open by insect damage , to invade , debilitate , deface and even destroy an entire plant . |