Example sentences of "[prep] carry [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , whilst women , as it were , merely conducted the animal-like repetitive tasks of carrying on the reproduction of the human race , men , by one supreme symbolic act , imposed themselves upon nature and enacted a cultural rebirth . |
| 2 | Franco , however , would not delegate because he saw himself as the only person capable of carrying out the mission of maintaining a united Spain . |
| 3 | The establishment of a locally-based subsidiary company will commonly be regarded by a foreign or multinational holding company as a sensible and effective way of carrying out the business of the latter company ; but the English courts will see it differently . |
| 4 | The new law is said to alter the priorities of the operation to safeguard Venice , giving precedence to overhauling the conditions in the Lagoon such as reinforcing the shore-line and mud-flats , controlling pollution , checking on fish-farms and the eventual elimination of petrol tankers , before carrying out the installation of the flood barriers . |
| 5 | The purpose of the model is to describe how a particular person develops individuality in carrying out the Activities of Living . |
| 6 | The White Paper goes on to emphasize : ‘ It is the loss of liberty involved in carrying out the terms of the order rather than the activities carried out during the order which is the punishment ’ ( p. 18 , para. 4.4 ) . |
| 7 | A court order enables either party to go back to the court if unreasonable delay in carrying out the terms of the order is experienced , and if there is to be a conveyance of the matrimonal home following an agreement between the husband and the wife ( not incorporated into a court order ) it is always open to either party to make application to the court at any time . |
| 8 | It was held that the agreement was void and that effect could not be given to it by rejecting the general restraint which appeared in it and limiting the agreement for the purposes of the action to carrying on the business of a tailor . |
| 9 | Federal law was always superior to Länder law and the Länder were restricted in many areas to carrying out the policies of the Bonn government . |
| 10 | The problem for Trotsky was thus very similar to the problem which bureaucracy poses for the liberal interventionist , or welfare , state : how can those with the responsibility for carrying out the functions of government be controlled — in this case by a political leadership consisting of dedicated and ideologically sound revolutionaries ? |
| 11 | It will involve more members with decision making taken by those who are responsible for reporting back to the members and for carrying out the effects of such responsibilities . |
| 12 | In sixteenth-century Spain there was usually a secretary of state with particular responsibility for carrying out the decisions of the king in foreign policy matters . |
| 13 | It had , in fact , originally been employed as a reaction against ‘ simplistic ideas about the means and periods of time for carrying out the tasks of communist construction ’ . |