Example sentences of "[prep] [be] carry [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By the later nineteenth century , these dangers were much less ; and perhaps more striking is Davy 's other remark , about how in his lifetime chemistry had ceased to be a science of furnaces and large quantities , and had become an activity to be carried on with spirit-lamps and test-tubes in the drawing room .
2 Most departments had their offices , though there were constant difficulties about telephones and electricity supplies , and very little in the way of fans ; communications between departments had to be carried on by messenger , for internal postal services were taking time to be reorganised .
3 This does not , however , enable a partnership with a foreign lawyer to be carried on within England and Wales .
4 Rain caused delays at Lord 's so that the match had to be carried over till Sunday , but it made no difference to Richards .
5 I warn the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook — I hope that he will accept that I do so in the best possible spirit — not to be carried along by media representations of what happened at Brixton .
6 And that he was meant to be carried out to sea . "
7 The Bretton Woods arrangements recognized these problems by encouraging long-term adjustment to be carried out through deficit countries devaluing when their balance of payments was in ‘ fundamental disequilibrium ’ .
8 Because of the density of traffic on this railway and its high operational speed most of the construction work had to be carried out during possessions of the track .
9 A SURVEY of Springfields ' rich bird population is to be carried out as part of an international study .
10 Consultancy work in engineering geology Engineering geological consultancy work continues to be carried out for clients in the private and public sectors .
11 A MAJOR environmental scheme is to be carried out on Cookstown 's main street — the longest and widest in Ireland .
12 They raised them to 100% so that all secondary education was to be carried out on selection by merit.47
13 Most of the prisoners had to be carried out on stretchers .
14 In December 1990 , Iran 's spiritual leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei had reaffirmed the late Ayatollah Khomeini 's February 1989 call for a death sentence to be carried out on Rushdie [ see pp. 36450-51 ; 37266 ; 37549 ; 37929 ] .
15 No inquiry is to be carried out on behalf of any government department unless you are satisfied that an important public interest bearing on the Defence of the Realm , as defined in Paragraph 2 , is at stake .
16 ‘ A very gallant and historical operation , the first torpedo attack ever to be carried out at night by the Royal Air Force .
17 And certain industrial processes , which relied on electrical machines had to be carried out at night when the supply was available , but in darkness to comply with blackout regulations .
18 b ) any sums required to enable valuations to be carried out in accordance with the Act ;
19 She had duly registered the death of her father at the Council Offices that afternoon and the funeral had now speedily to be carried out in Buckinghamshire .
20 This suspended level is the feature which allows dilution to be carried out in D without affecting t .
21 In our case this iteration has gone on at great lengths and I and my colleagues have had to struggle to ensure that we have allocated enough time to deciding the direction in which the company should be going , and the changes that have to be carried out in order to get it there .
22 Further work needs to be carried out in order to improve the present level of constitutional , decentralized and resource concepts of accountability .
23 This has to be carried out in conjunction with the Community Physician of the Health Authority .
24 The boom in study days and conferences and in nursing literature is evidence of consumer demand for enjoyable ways of adding to professional knowledge , and there is now no need whatever to view continuing education as a chore and a duty to be carried out in isolation from colleagues and friends .
25 At the same time , in contrast to earlier eras , the housework is more likely to be carried out in isolation , without reference to others or without any external standard of comparison from which she might derive status or recognition for her particular skills as a cook or a housewife .
26 Homework is done by women whose role as unpaid caretakers of a nation 's dependents forces them out of the competition of the job market , and , still needing to earn , into work which is desperately tedious , which has to be carried out in isolation , thus losing for them the only element which makes tedious work bearable — the cameradie of the factory floor .
27 Telephone messages that have to be carried out in code .
28 The work is to be carried out in collaboration with major UK industries and is funded under the SERC/DTI LINK scheme ; as such close contact with the technological applications of the devices by liaison with industry is anticipated .
29 The study is to be carried out in collaboration with Drs Usha Dhanesha and David Miles of Airedale General Hospital , and Professor John Weatherill of Bradford Royal Infirmary .
30 In addition an analysis of work history data collected from 1,000 informants in six localities , provided by the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative is to be carried out in collaboration with Duncan Gallie .
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