Example sentences of "[adj] to carry [adv] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The manager prompts the subordinate to carry out a personal audit . |
| 4 | The wide diversity of tasks carried out by the Departments made it inappropriate to carry out a detailed examination of each function . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | The librarian may be able to carry out a relevant literature search . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |