Example sentences of "[pron] [be] carry [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siban commands , and I am to carry out the reconnaissance . ’ |
| 2 | And I 'm carried on the tide |
| 3 | It bursts at internals to release into the atmosphere an enormous number of rusty-red spores which are carried on the breeze to germinate in distant damp timber , starting the process afresh . |
| 4 | The Board , which is to carry out the logging operation , has recommended felling the older trees as their younger counterparts are more resistant to air pollution . |
| 5 | Sometimes xerolas ( vegetables and/or fruits , often in the shape of a gigantic ball and strung on a pole which is carried on the shoulders of two men ) are carried in the procession . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | If you are carrying out the move yourself , with the help of some friends , then do not use tea-chests , they are too heavy , start scouring your local supermarkets and off-licences for as many cardboard boxes as you can lay your hands on . |
| 8 | Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’ |
| 9 | For there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel , and the hum and songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day ; and the merry jests and greetings sent down to those who were passing through the streets . |
| 10 | The governors stuck reasonably well to their instructions on this and other matters and , while they did not always understand the new societies in which they were serving , eighteenth-century attacks on their competence were certainly on some occasions political propaganda that colonists were naturally tempted to launch against men who were carrying out the policy of a distant monarch and government . |
| 11 | Discuss how your analysis would have been altered if you were carrying out the analysis on behalf of a prospective shareholder . |
| 12 | But if we convert our traders into stock-jobbers , who is to carry on the commerce of the kingdom ? |
| 13 | Deciding what is to be done , and who is to carry out the tasks involved . |
| 14 | If you consider ideas like killing or biting , for example , Kalkadoon uses a suffix -tu to indicate who is carrying out the action — in grammatical terms to mark the ‘ subject ’ of the transitive verb . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If we are carrying out the valuation of a private company which intends to float in the foreseeable future it should be borne in mind that the flotation will make the shares marketable . |
| 18 | The eggs need to be well protected since they are carried on the wind , continually exposed to the sun 's fierce rays , and blown across the sand . |
| 19 | So they 're carrying out the checks initially on the the capabilities and the financial soundness of the , of the proposed supplier . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 22 | The company formed to explore the sunken liner said it was carrying out the search with the French Institute for the Research and Exploitation of the Sea . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |