Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] to carry [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sketch for the Upper Pond , part of Brown 's great natural parkland at Petworth , was discovered in the Petworth archives some years ago but the backlog of work on the estate and the disastrous storm of 1987 which destroyed thousands of trees delayed plans to carry out the design . |
| 2 | Management by crisis is a favoured metaphor of managing because it implies disentangling realities and priorities in a hurry , making a decision , and executing it by getting others to carry out the appropriate actions . |
| 3 | If a landlord refuses to comply with a repair notice the local authority now has increased powers to carry out the repairs itself and recover the costs through sequestration of rents . |
| 4 | As a first step you might refuse the plastic bags that are thrust upon you at the supermarket check-out and use boxes to carry home the food . |
| 5 | Civil servants are employed to assist ministers to carry on the business of government . |
| 6 | It is a natural development to use further reservoirs or special settling tanks to carry on the process of clarification , to remove substantially all the solids in suspension . |
| 7 | At some point we need administrators to carry out the will of the people . |
| 8 | The drought had aggravated the effluent problem as the company was forced to rent tankers to carry away the effluent which was an even more costly , though temporary , solution . |