Example sentences of "[was/were] carry on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides a number of activities which took place at a regional level , many more were carried on throughout the year by its corporate and personal members . |
| 2 | Two were carrying on at a polytechnic , and one was training to be a teacher at a college of Higher Education . |
| 3 | However , if he is a currency speculator he may be found to be trading in currencies and as he resides in the United Kingdom it would be very difficult to show that the trade was carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | According to Curtin and Shields , Irish Base Metals literally occupied the area on which they found metal : ‘ Thus early prospecting was carried on outside the framework of the mining legislation and involved a tortious interference with the property and livelihood of local farmers . |
| 5 | This hi-tech theme was carried on with the Starstream XII which featured a semi-acoustic Teardrop body , built in tuner , distortion , treble and bass boost , percussion and a hand operated wah-wah device . |
| 6 | Probably much of his success as a teacher sprang from this , for the young greatly enjoyed his moments of iconoclasm , even when it was carried on to the cricket field where he had no knowledge of and certainly no respect for the laws of the game , as a current Member of Parliament may remember . |
| 7 | The House of Commons did not itself govern , but government was carried on within the confines of its guidance and approval . |
| 8 | Their love affair was carried on against a background of nightly bombings , wartime tension , the advance of the German army on Paris . |
| 9 | Conversation was carried on against a background of ear-splitting barking . |
| 10 | Work was carried on around the lump in a fairly ordered pattern helping to keep everything in proportion . |
| 11 | I think it would be true to say that my two brothers and sister and I were products of the Anglican parochial system , at a time when almost all charitable work was carried on by the churches . |
| 12 | It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals . |
| 13 | The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 . |
| 14 | At its meeting on 30 October 1990 , the board received a report from Ian Wells , a senior enforcement officer , on the progress of an investigation he was carrying on into the affairs and business of the Winchester Group , an appointed representative of Norwich Union . |
| 15 | Needless to say , there was not much work for this legendary character as a film star ; the next film in which he appeared was Carry on Up the Khyber in 1960 . |