Example sentences of "[been] carry [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The October revolution had been carried through on the assumption that Russia , although a relatively backward country and hardly ‘ ripe ’ for revolution in a Marxist sense , could help to bring about a European and later a worldwide transition to a communist social order .
2 Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible .
3 ‘ If a body was placed in the water at that time , would it have been carried away by the tide ? ’
4 But he should have realised she 'd been carried away by the atmosphere , and the unexpected potency of the aquavit .
5 When night fell we were appalled to find that the same principle had been carried over to the highway .
6 They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley .
7 In the past some craft-trading had been carried on beyond the vicinity , but this and nearly all other economic ties with the Ukraine to the south and their fellow Great Russians to the north had stopped .
8 South Cambridgeshire District Council has recognized the important part that environmental health officers have to play within the work of the District Council , and for some time now the work of the Department has been carried on under the hat of the Legal , Housing and Health Director .
9 In 1685 two small-scale but embarrassing attacks , by the Duke of Monmouth in the west of England and the Duke of Argyll in Scotland , had been defeated on land but the initial landings had been carried out without the navy being able to stop them .
10 I doubt if any survey has ever been carried out without the researcher having some regrets at the analysis stage about some questions which could have been phrased better , but the good researcher makes sure in advance that these regrets are as few as possible .
11 Her worries extend to the role of HIV testing because of known cases where testing has been carried out without the child 's consent .
12 Tennis Courts Considerable work has been carried out to the pavilion but no work has been undertaken on the playing surface or the fencing .
13 Tennis Courts Considerable work has been carried out to the pavilion but no work has been undertaken on the playing surface or the fencing .
14 I wonder whether that has been carried out to the letter on one or two occasions in the last ten years .
15 Essential repairs and refurbishment have been carried out to the Library 's Sighthill Bindery and to the Lawnmarket Building .
16 No behavioural intervention can be designed properly until ABC analysis has been carried out for the problem behaviours under scrutiny .
17 Dr Shimada 's work has been carried out under the aegis of the Peruvian government , sponsored by the Shibusawa Ethnological Foundation of Tokyo .
18 As she points out : Remarkably little research has been carried out on the question of how these filters operate , and by whom they are operated , yet any policies aimed at harmonizing the interests of agriculture , conservation and recreation in the countryside must be based upon an understanding of this problem .
19 CHECKED-BY a check has been carried out on the module at this point , probably as part of a quality inspection
20 A special study has been carried out on the need to balance environmental improvements with potential disruption of essential traffic .
21 A special study has been carried out on the need to balance environmental improvements with potential disruption of essential traffic .
22 Such public procurement or purchasing has in the past not been carried out on the basis of buying the cheapest and/or the best .
23 Strengthening and repair operations have been carried out on the bridge from time to time , including the addition of steel cables to assist the original chains .
24 Many detailed studies have been carried out on the nature of the consumption relationship and all seem to agree that , for the community as a whole , consumption is related in some way to income .
25 A great deal of valuable work has been carried out on the interview itself .
26 Many experiments have been carried out on the perception of stress , and it is clear that many different sound characteristics are important in making a syllable recognisably stressed .
27 Exploration has also been carried out on the ophiolite complexes of the Lizard , Ballantrae and Shetland where minor PGE enrichment has been discovered .
28 He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting .
29 This had been carried out inside the health department and had come up with findings that were easily predictable .
30 As Dillon LJ pointed out in R & B Custom Brokers : … there are some transactions which are clearly integral parts of the businesses concerned , and these should be held to have been carried out in the course of those businesses ; this would cover , apart from much else , the instance of a one-off adventure in the nature of trade , where the transaction itself would constitute a trade or business .
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