Example sentences of "[adv] carry [adv prt] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 2 | Louis XIV duly carried out the letter of the Treaty of Utrecht by forcing the self-styled James III to move into Lorraine , technically a separate province , 100 miles [ 160 km ] from Paris , but James II 's widow still resided at St Germain , a centre for Jacobite intrigue , from which messages were carried to England by French diplomatic couriers . |
| 3 | If you feel it will be difficult to stand back sufficiently to carry out the sorts of procedures we have discussed in this chapter , then it may be best to avoid them . |
| 4 | Danish schools whose heads do not see themselves as curriculum leaders are not necessarily sunk in apathy or mechanically carrying out the dictates of a central programme . |
| 5 | From the 1760s , moreover , some of the British secretaries of embassy in Paris and Madrid were also accredited as minister plenipotentiary : they could thus carry on the business of the mission quite effectively in the absence of its head . |
| 6 | This was in view of the company 's established reputation in providing environmental services safely and responsibly in pest control , clinical waste disposal , property conservation , timber pre-treatment , air cleaning equipment , water and air conditioning servicing , and generally carrying out the types of work that other companies are reluctant to undertake . |
| 7 | After a few weeks most boys bought their own pens and they were usually carried down the top of the right sock . |
| 8 | The Boards usually carried out the work of laying distribution mains themselves , though sometimes they used independent contractors . |
| 9 | ‘ And yet you still carry around the baggage of the past , ’ he said cryptically . |
| 10 | In a civil question between the creditors of a deceased and insolvent certificate-holder and his widow , who , without objection by the creditors , obtained the certificate and thereafter carried on the business without any agreement being made regarding her paying her husband 's debts , or the application of the profits during her tenancy , it was decided that she was not bound to account to the creditors for the profits earned by her under her own certificate : Stewart 's Trs. v. Stewart 's Executrix ( 1896 ) 23 R. 739 . |
| 11 | Gimli 's ‘ Song of Durin' at I 329–30 is dwarvishly plain and active , but still carries on the sense of decay in Middle-earth opposed to ultimate hope ; Legolas 's ‘ Song of Nimrodel ’ a little later makes similar oppositions but ends on an opposite note , of faltering and ultimate defeat on the ‘ Hither Shore ’ . |
| 12 | The churches also carried out the function of education in spiritual guidance to a population largely illiterate . |
| 13 | And the more crowded , the more satisfied the police , as that means they are efficiently carrying out the law against prostitution — one of the present government 's most notable social " contributions " . |
| 14 | It was found that males and females would become sexually excited and were strongly motivated to mate even though they seemed incapable of correctly carrying out the act of copulation . |
| 15 | Torturers were either trained policemen or soldiers , or they were special commando units , or they were trained in USA or Panama , or they simply carried on the tradition of civilian torture . |
| 16 | It was made use of on 8 November by Cardinal Frings of Cologne precisely to call the Theological Commission into line , reminding it that it was there to carry out the wishes of the Council , not to determine what the Council should decide . |
| 17 | It was proposed initially to carry out the project in the London Borough of Southwark since part of the borough was served by Guy 's Hospital and also in the London Borough of Barnet ( since it had a consultant psychogeriatrician who had recently moved there from Guy 's Hospital ) . |
| 18 | Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) They then carry out the structuring of Newco 's capital as described in 4.7 below , in conjunction with the funding banks and institutions who are proposing to invest . |
| 20 | The Commission would exist essentially to carry out the bidding of the Council . |
| 21 | a careful reading of this study ( Carr-Hill and Stern ) shows that the authors never carried out the test in question … but instead test the contribution of unemployment to explaining the number of police per capita in each area . |
| 22 | But for every anti-beer crusader , there are dozens happily carrying on the legend of Norm . |