Example sentences of "[noun sg] carry [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched it keenly through opera glasses from the third row of the empty stalls , and I do n't know how the poor actress carried on under the circumstances . |
| 2 | Willie carried on following the dots between the lines and then stopped . |
| 3 | In particular the attention of the court was drawn to clause 1 of the agreement which referred to the practice carried on by the parties as a " practice of general medical practitioners " . |
| 4 | A sampling programme carried out in the Coins and Medals Department in 1979 checked some 10,000 of the estimated 600,000 objects in the collections . |
| 5 | The project follows on from research carried out by the investigators into the structure of Scottish rural society during early-modern times . |
| 6 | A study carried out in the mid-1980s in a South London day hospital and in local day centres examined the ordinary , everyday needs and specific treatment requirements of attenders . |
| 7 | Politicking carried on within the coalitions during both world wars and the financial crisis , but in a muted , coded and generally responsible way . |
| 8 | It is already leading to a resumption or the land improvement work carried out by the crofters in the sixties , with the help of the College of Agriculture and the Crofters Commission , working closely together . |
| 9 | The research draws on previous work carried out in the coalfields which described the existence of a sharp division of labour between men and women . |
| 10 | It would clearly be far too expensive to repeat every investigation carried out by the police , to say nothing of delays . |
| 11 | These ratings of a specific meaning were made possible by a two-stage assessment procedure carried out by the members of the research team , rather than using self-rating questionnaire methods . |
| 12 | These qualification courses form a greater proportion of the total training carried out by the libraries who listed only a few programmes for 1984/5 ( see Table 9 ) , in general tending to constitute the main type of development training for non-professionals , especially in smaller libraries . |
| 13 | If the purchaser has actual knowledge that the asset sale carried out by the directors is in breach of their fiduciary duty , the transaction is voidable at the instance of the vendor and the purchaser will hold the proceeds of the sale as a constructive trustee . |
| 14 | A cross-trainer ( multi-purpose ) shoe will be your best buy , according to a survey carried out by the Consumers ' Association , and as long as your feet are well supported and cushioned you should n't pay more than around £40 . |
| 15 | The survey carried out by the traders ' magazine , ‘ Checkout Ireland ’ , came up with the ‘ alarming result ’ that 80pc of retailers have been affected by crime . |
| 16 | And in Britain , the last survey carried out by the Sports Council revealed that up to 75 per cent of the population were doing very little at all to get fit . |
| 17 | This has added insult to injury of a privatisation carried out against the wishes of the public . |
| 18 | A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties . |