Example sentences of "[adv] carry on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Her successor , Margaret Moore , successfully carried on the established pattern .
2 Probably publicans were just carrying on an old tradition of involvement in popular sports .
3 This certificate normally carries on the reverse side a form of renunciation .
4 These are replacements but are still carried on the original pendentives .
5 Yet , as Samuel warns : ‘ even if nation is expelled from the class-room , it will still carry on an underground existence in the corridors and playground and an altogether more uninhibited one on television and the football terraces .
6 Loose canvas seat covers were also carried on the upper decks .
7 This is because the genes controlling these particular colour-forms are both carried on the X chromosomes , the red gene on one and the non-red gene on the other .
8 The defendant in Southwark London Borough v. Charlesworth ( 1983 D.C. ) was a shoe repairer who also carried on a secondary business as seller of second-hand goods .
9 8 information about other books published , materials , tapes , etc — often carried on the inside back cover .
10 At about this time a hitherto unsuccessful fortune-teller living on the other side of the block chanced to glance into her scrying bowl , gave a small scream and , within the hour , had sold her jewellery , various magical accoutrements , most of her clothes and almost all her other possessions that could not be conveniently carried on the fastest horse she could buy .
11 ‘ 4(1) The institution conducts , or , in the case of an institution which is not yet carrying on a deposit-taking business , will conduct its business in a prudent manner .
12 The legal model envisages the board of directors as actually carrying on the day-to-day business of the company so that there is no separate executive organ within the legal model .
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