Example sentences of "[be] carrying on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that if today we can give a little help to those who are carrying on the race the money will not be wasted , ’ ( House of Commons Debate , Vol. 300 , col. 1634 ) . |
| 2 | The farmers are carrying on the work in defiance both of cantonal regulations and a supreme court injunction ordering them to stop . |
| 3 | Younger members of the Denning family are carrying on the tradition of working at Sharpness docks . |
| 4 | Rugby League has always bred fine sportsmen and Garry Schofield is carrying on the tradition . |
| 5 | In trying to deal with non-academic work on its own terms it is carrying on the debate opened in the recent exhibitions of ‘ High and Low ’ at MOMA and ‘ Parallel Visions ’ at LACMA . |
| 6 | Mr Major explained how he was carrying on the principles of his predecessor and pointed out that he was her seconder in the leadership ballot and regretted that she had not stayed on . |
| 7 | She rested the child she was carrying on the parapet , the child being asleep , and held it with one hand as she used the other to search at her breast purse for her money . |