Example sentences of "[am/are] carry [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the West , business agreements are carried out at a distance , say six feet or more .
2 Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor .
3 Measurements are carried out on a sample clamped in a thermostat .
4 Professor J. P. Payne of the Department of Anaesthetics at the Royal College of Surgeons insists that a research nurse should always be present when tests are carried out on a patient .
5 They dispense justice , settle land disputes , give orders to civil servants ( which are carried out with an alacrity unknown earlier ) .
6 While the majority are carried out by a person known to the victim , random attacks on strangers are on the increase .
7 The defendant had produced a program called " Oscar " , a job scheduling program for controlling the order in which tasks are carried out by a computer .
8 This should not include VAT , as this is only payable when the repairs are carried out by a contractor/repairer who is VAT registered .
9 The Government may be the paymaster , but the actual negotiations are carried out by a team of health authority representatives who might be industrial relations experts but usually are not .
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11 These three jobs are carried out within a time dimension .
12 Ministers are a bunch of desperadoes , and they are carrying on like a bunch of stoneheads .
13 Nothing in the scheme required that the training be carried out at a college — far from it — but endorsement of the scheme by local colleges is an important feature .
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