Example sentences of "[pron] carry [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale . |
| 2 | In execution of that policy it was proposed that a circular would be issued to all local authorities asking them to carry out a review of the curriculum in their areas in consultation with their schools and to report the results within about twelve months . |
| 3 | Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity . |
| 4 | Every week I carry out a 10-gallon water change and two gravel cleans . |
| 5 | The fish are fed sparingly once a day and I carry out a 20% water change every ten days when I use a vacuum to clean the top layer of gravel . |
| 6 | I carry out a 25% water change every two weeks . |
| 7 | BACK to 1979 , when I carried on a bit about superstitions about earwigs , the whole thing being started up by a film about a man driven off his trolley by one of the insects boring into his brain , shouts of ‘ rubbish ’ at the screen did no good . |
| 8 | When I carried out a survey of undergraduates and their use of books at Sheffield University I needed a sample of all undergraduates in the university during the academic year of the study.8 It was quite a revelation , talking to the Assistant Registrar in charge of records , to discover how difficult it was to define a ‘ student ’ for my purposes . |
| 9 | The benefits of this route could be substantial : about half of the Currie High roll comes from the Baberton and Juniper Green area , and when I carried out a survey , among parents , of travel to the school from these areas last year , a substantial number of families were in favour of opening up this path . |
| 10 | The dynamics of different transducing mechanisms have been compared in NIH 3T3 cells , which carry both a G protein-linked receptor ( bradykinin ) and a tyrosine kinase-linked receptor ( PDGF ) . |
| 11 | But if the objective of the advertising for such a brand is , in fact , to talk to newcomers to the market ( and there are always newcomers to any market ) , or to the unconverted , or to disloyal users of other brands , there is , obviously , a very clear , specific case for ads which carry quite a lot of information , presented in a suitably attractive way . |
| 12 | When you come to answer an exam question , remember that it is probably asking you to carry out a number of different tasks . |
| 13 | Hot air , or ‘ heat ’ guns are almost a disposable tool amongst tradesmen who carry out a lot of paint stripping and decoration . |
| 14 | And as orchestras , even good ones , always Make mistakes in the same places , you carry over a lot of experience . |
| 15 | Erm chemically speaking , if you carry out a reaction which can produce an optically active compound , you would normally the recenate and then you have to separate by either chemical method or the physical method and it 's usually not very easy . |
| 16 | After nine years of working with elderly people over 65 and coming across cases of physical abuse without a definition or context , she carried out a study between 1988 and 1989 . |
| 17 | NORTHOP Village , who carried off a league and cup double last season , are in danger of folding after losing their pitch . |
| 18 | Pathologists who carried out a post-mortem examination on Mrs Henderson said she had developed a chest infection and died from complications due to her head injury . |
| 19 | Dr Iain West , a Home Office pathologist who carried out a post-mortem on the discredited media tycoon , was yesterday quoted in The Daily Mirror , which Maxwell owned , as saying that Maxwell had almost certainly committed suicide . |
| 20 | The van 's registration number , NIB 2228 , was radioed to police control who carried out a check . |
| 21 | The one who carried out a hold-up in Philadelphia — and , while waiting , sang ‘ We wish you a merry Christmas … |
| 22 | Detectives who carried out a raid at an exclusive house at Coatham Mundeville , near Darlington , have held talks with the Crown Prosecution Service which is now considering the content of a number of articles seized . |
| 23 | Consultant paediatrician Dr Mark Reid , who carried out a report on the baby 's death , said he felt all the doctors involved had given consistent and correct advice . |
| 24 | Following the Antiques Road Show appearance , Mrs Cooper 's art work was studied by a WEA antiques class who carried out a research project on marquetery . |
| 25 | AN animal rights fanatic who carried out a bomb attack on a crowded McDonald 's was jailed for 15 months yesterday . |
| 26 | A man who carried out a series of indiscriminate attacks on people he thought were students has been jailed for seven years . |
| 27 | THE Home Office is to consider deporting a man who carried out a series of cheque book deceptions around the country . |
| 28 | Thus a person who carries on a VAT exempt business ( such as a bookmaker , dentist , doctor , funeral director or registered nursing home ) might deliberately start a small-scale taxable business and hope to take advantage of the rules . |
| 29 | Happily married with two children to an American , she carries around a secret she can not bring herself to tell her mother , Winnie . |
| 30 | Therefore , we carried out a shock wave lithotripsy of the impacted stone in the cystic duct despite contraindications . |