Example sentences of "was carry [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife and children have felt that their vocation in life was to carry on this early training so that I have had a lifetime 's pressure towards humility , reinforced by the effect of biblical meditation and involvement in the worship of the Church . |
| 2 | The general idea , using these methods , was to carry on recording until a quota sample of sixteen people in each area had been filled . |
| 3 | This argument was rejected on the basis that , from its formation , Newco 's wider purpose was to carry on a trade and that was why it was acquiring the business . |
| 4 | BT 's response was to carry out an area trial , promising to keep me advised on progress . |
| 5 | The LRDG patrol which was to carry out a diversionary raid on Benina airfield decided to turn back as there was no longer enough time to drive there and back in darkness . |
| 6 | The main function of these committees was to carry out JAC policy , but this involved detailed work in organizing both the industrial and the welfare aspects of the developing service , and dovetailing much of the administration with that of education authorities . |
| 7 | De Alwis , Dr Netasinghe , head of the veterinary team , and the park rangers and trackers had another trump card in the person of the man who was to carry out the darting . |
| 8 | The next stage was to carry out a proper evaluation of the message , in an attempt to determine what was giving rise to the ambiguity ( i.e. , what was missing from the message ) . |
| 9 | Its most important innovations were the provision of an annual conference of delegates , elected by the membership , and a rule that the executive committee , similarly elected , " was to carry out the business of the BDDA in accordance with the decisions of the delegates " conference " . |
| 10 | True it was that the plaintiff did not undertake to do any work additional to that which he had originally undertaken to do but the terms on which he was to carry out the work were varied and , in my judgment , that variation was supported by consideration which a pragmatic approach to the true relationship between the parties readily demonstrates . |
| 11 | Ana de Santis was a charming girl and it was necessary to get close to her if she was to carry out her orders . |
| 12 | Thus an early objective was to carry out some trials to compare this measure with a radiometer reading . |
| 13 | The aim of the proposal was to carry out a visit of one month to France under the ESRC/CNTLS Exchange scheme for social scientists in order to pursue collaborative work on Time , the family and leisure |
| 14 | His last major task was to carry out a detailed study of the force 's structures for Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley earlier this year . |
| 15 | The judge was to carry out an agreed investigation into the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989 in which 170 people died [ see p. 36910 ] . |
| 16 | The purpose of Study 2 was to carry out a laboratory task which allowed measurement of feelings of risk and a controlled test of memory for driving situations . |
| 17 | Had Pétain , the man who was to carry out Castelnau 's decision , been in de Castelnau 's place it is probably what would have happened . |
| 18 | The theme of the convention was carried through by every speaker and in every session . |
| 19 | At Samarkand , masons were active building a grand terminus ( which was to remain so only until the railway was carried through to Tashkent in 1898 ) . |
| 20 | Again the work was completed in Oxford , and was carried through by the leadership of a man who made no mistakes in seeking chemical collaboration or in letting matters drop for lack of it . |
| 21 | When I originally found the frame I thought how pretty it would look if the green of the surround was carried through to the mount and the colour of the picture . |
| 22 | " [ The transfer in 1860 ] between the Goldsmiths ' Company and the Corporation was carried through with the most perfect agreement and accord . " |
| 23 | Up to about 1730 most of this enclosure was carried through by private agreements between the owners of the land in question . |
| 24 | Czechoslovakia viewed the Warsaw Pact as a temporary body , whose role was co-operation between states in disarmament talks , and intended to retain its Pact membership , provided that a political and military reorganization was carried through . |
| 25 | The wounded German Officer was carried up the grassy bank and placed against a tree . |
| 26 | In a number of cases , grain was carried up the canal to the docks , was transhipped , and promptly retraced its steps along the canal to Saul Junction where it passed onto the Stroudwater Canal . |
| 27 | She was carried up and flung outward . |
| 28 | He was carried up to that garret , probably in a state of stupor , drunk or drugged . |
| 29 | The noise of the car engine was carried up the the pipe and Mrs Jones was woken in the early hours of the morning . |
| 30 | Work was carried on around the lump in a fairly ordered pattern helping to keep everything in proportion . |