Example sentences of "[prep] carry [adv prt] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In view of the vast size of Siberia , the relatively small numbers of Russians operating there in the seventeenth century , and the difficulty of carrying out a census of a mobile population , it seems likely that these figures somewhat underestimate the number of indigenous Siberians before the Russian conquest . |
| 4 | Mr Justice Jowitt commenting at the trial of Ernest Coveley , accused of carrying out a series of robberies with a cucumber The escargot laying season is between June and September . |
| 5 | Discussion with pupils on their methods of carrying out a number of the test questions showed that most of those interviewed had developed mental methods for the simplest kind of questions and could , on occasions , make good use of the knowledge they possessed . |
| 6 | Franco , however , would not delegate because he saw himself as the only person capable of carrying out the mission of maintaining a united Spain . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The consequence was that the local authority had to consider the situation of the children , including carrying out an assessment of the prospect of the children making their permanent home with their father who , by now , had a new partner . |
| 9 | The dispute stemmed from new contracts introduced in October 1990 under which dentists receive four-fifths of their income from carrying out a range of 300 operations . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | " The meeting having considered the application of the Schoolmaster of Kildaltan for the payment of the sum he expended upon building his House — they have examined said accot. — and reprobate the conduct of the Schoolmaster in carrying on a work of such magnitude without authority — and they refuse to countenance such conduct … " |
| 12 | The experience of the monetary authorities in carrying out a policy of control of the money supply has not , however , been a happy one ( Leigh-Pemberton 1986 ) . |
| 13 | Several schools mentioned that they were presently involved in carrying out an audit of health education to monitor provision and delivery . |
| 14 | The purpose of the model is to describe how a particular person develops individuality in carrying out the Activities of Living . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was not until 1988 that they set out a detailed strategy for carrying out a series of experiments to confirm their preliminary observations that nuclear fusion may be possible at room temperature inside metals . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | But then , nearly twelve years ago , a young and ambitious deacon in the Church militia had decided to further his career by carrying out a survey of all small cults in Gleberune . |
| 25 | A small collection can be monitored regularly by carrying out a check of all objects against the register , but in the case of a very large collection this may well be impracticable . |
| 26 | Project English encourages learning through project work : as the pupils work through the projects in the Student 's Book , they gradually build up similar projects of their own by carrying out a number of project tasks . |