Example sentences of "[noun sg] carried [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This paper explores the social policy contexts of prevention , as developed in a research study carried out for the Department of Health ( Hardiker et al . ,
2 Indeed research carried out for the Maud Committee on local government reform in 1967 showed that 35 per cent of rural district council members were farmers , far and away the most numerous section and more than twice as many as the next largest group .
3 Heights of 5 ft ( 1.5m ) or more call for strong staking ; this standard has three ties to a stake carried well into the head , for extra protection .
4 The improvements were funded by Edinburgh District Council and the Edinburgh Green Belt Trust , and the work carried out with the co-operation of Lothian Regional Council and Sustrans .
5 Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved .
6 An independent inquiry carried out for the DTI by Sir Godfrey le Quesne QC in 1989 emphasised the reliance the DTI had placed on Spicers ' opinion in granting BC a licence in 1985 .
7 Sound carried incredibly in the bowl of landscape the lodge sat in .
8 Two groups of proteins have been shown to act as superantigens , one exogenous to the host and the other carried endogenously in the host 's genome .
9 However , since the company itself can only act through human agents , a transaction carried out for the benefit of the company , will mean that those acting for it will be liable under the CSA 1985 .
10 The project consists of several months ' fieldwork carried out during the summer term and long vacation of the Junior Honours year .
11 In paragraph four , page six , we do make a small point about the financial implications er on of course that has been resolved because of er the resolution carried forward in the budget debate and a note there about central training which I could er just , just explain slowly because I have had a number of questions about this .
12 Luke is wrong , therefore , in saying that the census carried out at the birth of Jesus was taken in the time of Quirinius .
13 By midsummer 1992 , according to a poll carried out for the newspaper The European , only in three of the twelve countries was there support for the Maastricht Treaty of over 50 per cent .
14 Penfield and Roberts ( 1959 ) give the following data for those of their patients who received electrical stimulation in Broca 's area and/or in inferior parietal and/or posterior temporal regions of the left hemisphere during surgery carried out for the relief of focal epilepsy .
15 The former are haphazard non-deliberate operations conducted at the shelves and the latter is a structured intentional activity carried out with the assistance of a bibliographic tool .
16 A sample survey carried out for the NCC in 1978 showed that most country-dwellers go to town or out-of-town shopping centres to buy things like furniture or clothes .
17 The environmental quality of national parks in England and Wales has deteriorated over the last two decades , according to the first-ever national survey carried out for the Countryside Commission .
18 And only half have that most ubiquitous machine , the washing machine , according to a Child Poverty Group survey carried out with the Family Services Unit in 1981 .
19 The backwash is reduced in energy by the percolation of water into the shingle , so that the backwash is not necessarily able to return the material carried forward by the swash in spite of the fact that it is combined with the effect of gravity , whereas the swash is acting against gravity .
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