Example sentences of "[noun] carry on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'll need sons to carry on this place . ’ |
| 2 | Broadly speaking , although it is discussed in more detail below , a business is transferred as a going concern if the purchaser carries on that business in succession to the vendor as distinct from the purchaser selectively choosing specific assets of the vendor for use in the purchaser 's own business . |
| 3 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 4 | The former sclerite carries on either side a convex process serving for articulation with the ginglymus of the mandible . |
| 5 | Boeing predicts that revenue passenger miles ( RPMs — the number of passengers carried on each flight multiplied by the distance of the flight ) will continue to grow by 5.4% a year over the next 15 years . |
| 6 | KPMG has authorisation from the ICAEW to carry on all investment business except discretionary management . |
| 7 | The pressure of work , the need to earn , the pressure of family and children , the disappointment of new partners are only too real but do not say , ‘ I only have strength to carry on this path I am treading . |
| 8 | ( ‘ Statutory undertakers ' are defined as ‘ persons authorized by any enactment to carry on any railway , light railway , road transport , water transport , canal , inland navigation , dock , harbour , pier or lighthouse undertaking , or any undertaking for the supply of electricity , gas , hydraulic power or water ’ . ) |
| 9 | A correspondent in Nottingham assures me that this year every police vehicle and every ambulance in the county carries on both sides a large photograph of the Chief Constable , Mr C. McLachlan , enjoining temperance . |