Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No conscious effort is required , and it is sometimes possible to carry on a non-relevant activity , e.g. holding a conversation , whilst performing the activity . |
| 2 | In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises . |
| 3 | Institutions authorised by the Bank of England to carry on a deposit-taking business in this country are required to make contributions to the Deposit Protection Fund as levied from time to time by the Deposit Protection Board . |
| 4 | She did not want to carry on a lengthy conversation with this garrulous dumb woman ; she wanted to go to bed and hug Edward Bear . |
| 5 | The tenant will not wish to restrict himself to too narrow a use , for while this might be satisfactory in the short term , if the lease is for 25 years much can happen to the tenant 's business , eg expansion or contraction resulting in the necessity for the tenant to assign or sublet the premises , in which case the assignee or subtenant may wish to carry on a different use . |
| 6 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 7 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 8 | Plans to build hospitals in particular places , or schools , appeared on the agenda because committee chairmen had canvassed opinion and had advised the secretariats in Tripoli : they went through smoothly enough , suggesting that the occasional displeasing reverse was more the result of failure to plan and to prepare the ground in advance , to carry on the ordinary business of politics , than a result of failure in some mystical process , such as interpreting the general will by introspection . |
| 9 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 10 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 11 | We held it was the duty of revolutionary Socialists to denounce both imperialist peace and imperialist war as the inevitable consequences of Capitalism and , whichever came , to carry on the independent class struggle of the workers , directing it towards the conquest of Worker 's Power … . |
| 12 | There is only one Arsenal today , and I can not conceive another simply because no other club have players fitted to carry on the same ideas . ’ |
| 13 | Grim prospects do hang over the heads of black school leavers and the research of Gloria Lee and John Wrench does much to nail down the specific ways in which employment opportunities are much narrower for the black kid seeking apprenticeships in industry ( 1981 ) . |
| 14 | Consequently , degeneracy can not occur and , assuming b i , … , b m are integers , it is only necessary to round down the optimal solution to the perturbed problem to obtain an optimal solution to the original problem . |
| 15 | Again , this is to drive down the net asset value of the business . |
| 16 | If you ignore the rule which tells you to drive down the left- hand side of the road in Britain you may crash your car . |
| 17 | When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was . |
| 18 | To catch the offending shrimp , it is often necessary to strip down the entire tank , rock by rock , until it is found . |
| 19 | Difficult to move , hideous to breathe in the shuttered carriage . |
| 20 | Gone are the days when you had to slide down a muddy bank and hold an old mercury one at arms length . |
| 21 | Because of the Government 's apparent lack of enthusiasm for all things European , and their determination to go along a slow track , will not Scotland lose out again without any chance of the central bank being cited in Glasgow or Edinburgh ? |
| 22 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 23 | Right now so the tap is to control the speed at which the acid goes in and if there is any gas that 's in there it ca n't escape out of that pipe again it 's got to go down the other pipe . |
| 24 | If we were minded to go down the new settlement line ? |
| 25 | ACT decided to go down the object-oriented route for several reasons . |
| 26 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 27 | ( For details on how to drain down the central heating system , see Chapter 13 . ) |
| 28 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 29 | It is a good idea to fit servicing valves before all taps so that they can be rewashered without the need to drain down the whole pipe ( and , possibly , the whole cistern ) . |
| 30 | Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 . |