Example sentences of "[adj] carry [adv prt] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 Only the exhortation to ‘ all Party organizations ’ on 28 March 1933 to carry out a nation-wide boycott aimed at Jewish businesses , goods , doctors , and lawyers , starting on 1 April , concentrated explicitly on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ .
3 The French carried out a successful attack on Albany , which was very close to the northern frontier of New York settlement up the Hudson Valley , but it was still not likely that they could reach the coastal towns which were the heart of English settlement .
4 Until this is achieved it is impossible to carry out a useful evaluation of the many alternative treatments available for patients with the complex problem of extrahepatic bile duct stricture .
5 The manager prompts the subordinate to carry out a personal audit .
6 The wide diversity of tasks carried out by the Departments made it inappropriate to carry out a detailed examination of each function .
7 Only three carried out a financial budget , and paperwork in the context of this study was very much VAT , simple cash books , and payment of bills , etc .
8 By the time the traffic ceased , they were far too late to carry out a proper raid on the airfield and had to content themselves with shooting up transport along the road .
9 It may be important to carry out a preliminary field research exercise to identify : who are the " relevant population " and what they are like in general terms ; what type of research method will prove most cost-effective ; what should be the structure and content of the questionnaire , and how researchers should use it ; how the information collected is to be collated and classified .
10 ‘ We would never have a Labour government able to carry out a Labour programme — even when that programme had won far more votes than any of the other parties . ’
11 During the debate Roy Hattersley , the deputy leader , argued that it would be ‘ historic folly ’ for Labour to back proportional representation ; inevitable coalitions would mean that ‘ we would never again have a Labour government that was able to carry out a Labour programme ’ .
12 The librarian may be able to carry out a relevant literature search .
13 The organization 's ship , the MV Greenpeace , was eventually able to carry out a limited monitoring of oil slicks , with Iranian scientists and military personnel on board .
14 Evaluation by achievement Performance measurement was carried out after each series of courses , by means of examination of each student 's list of references , in order to see whether the students were able to carry out a practical literature search .
15 William III , helped by the ‘ Protestant wind ’ that kept the English navy pinned in harbour while William 's Dutch fleet could choose a convenient place to land , was able to carry out a successful invasion with quite a substantial military force , so the events of the 1680s underlined the possibility that James II might be able to make a successful return from exile .
16 On April 6th , unbeknown to the Hohenzollern Crown Prince , he was asking Crown Prince Rupprecht whether his Sixth Army might not be able to carry out a swift blow at Arras , against the British Army , whose anticipated ( by Falkenhayn ) relief attack had not yet materialised .
17 Most commentators , from the 1968 Select Committee onwards , argue that HM Inspectorate should not expand to the extent that it is able to carry out a full programme of regular inspections ( Hopkins , 1982 , is an exception ) .
18 The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones .
19 Other duties , of course , could also be pretty tedious , especially when you were stuck carrying out a rotten job against your own sympathies , your loyalties divided .
20 South West Consolidated Minerals Ltd carried out an intensive programme of drilling in the Callington area and located a ‘ sheeted vein zone ’ of Sn-W mineralisation near the old Redmoor tin mine .
21 In April 1988 , when she reached the age of 21 , she issued a writ claiming that these abnormalities were the result of the negligence of medical staff who had in September 1966 carried out a gynaecological operation on her mother , then pregnant with the plaintiff .
22 It was much more convenient to carry out a fine firing exercise on our backs … result : I arrived there with 175 men , I returned with 34 , several half mad .
23 A contingent of 250 United States troops arrived in Gabarone on Jan. 14 to carry out a two-week training exercise with the 4,500-strong Botswana Defence Force .
24 It was , therefore , necessary to carry out a complete validation check of the listing against the manual records kept by the Personnel Branch at Gatwick Airport .
25 Whilst all can be accessed via the keyboard , it is planned to provide each member with an individual menu containing all the functions necessary to carry out a prescribed set of activities .
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