Example sentences of "[noun sg] carry [adv] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hull delegate to the National Conference of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children , in Nottingham in October , was surprised to learn that China is less than half as densely populated as the UK , despite the forcible abortion and sterilisation carried out on women in China and used as a means of genocide in Chinese-occupied Tibet . |
| 2 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 3 | The report includes details of work carried out on milk from two farms near Bolsover , Derbyshire , which was found to contain high levels of dioxins ( Chem . |
| 4 | The most common request is that everything should be set back the way it was at time X and it should appear as though the work carried out on package Y never happened at all ! |
| 5 | These affect work carried out on client sites and Courtaulds Engineering already has a system in place to oversee the safety aspects of all its contract projects . |
| 6 | A major Cabinet reshuffle carried out on Aug. 26 by Prime Minister Maj.-Gen. |
| 7 | Key changes in a Cabinet reshuffle carried out on July 12 , 1990 , were the appointments of Gazana and Nzabahimana in place of Anastase Nteziryayo and Juvénal Uwilingiyimana [ for a full Cabinet list as of May 1990 see p. 37554 ; for February 1991 Cabinet reshuffle see p. 37993 ] . |
| 8 | His abrupt departure from positions of influence in Senegalese politics had been signalled in an extensive Cabinet reshuffle carried out on March 27 , when he was dropped from the post of Secretary-General to the Presidency and Minister of State , a post he had held since January 1981 . |
| 9 | A Cabinet reshuffle carried out on Jan. 20 , 1991 , by the head of state and Prime Minister , Lt.-Gen. |
| 10 | The Sri Lankan army carried out on Sept. 2-25 a further successful offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) in the northern jungle area around Mullaittivu [ see p. 38392 for major government victory at Elephant Pass in August ] , admitting a death toll of only 73 soldiers but claiming to have killed over 600 guerrillas . |
| 11 | The data reveal that most of the questions and tasks successfully undertaken by pupils in the lowest third of the target pupils involve basic processes of counting and calculation carried out on paper , mentally , and with a calculator ; direct readings from tables of data ; recognition and drawing of familiar shapes ; and some visualization tasks . |
| 12 | Yet he acknowledged that ‘ any thorough examination … would be an extremely difficult thing to carry out on account of the prejudice of the men ’ . |
| 13 | WE LEARN of some interesting cosmetic dentistry carried out on Jack Nicholson for his title role in the £25 million film Hoffa , a gritty saga about Sixties Teamsters boss Jimmy . |
| 14 | Surgery carried out on Sept. 11 revealed that he had prostate cancer , but when he left hospital on Sept. 16 he declared that he saw no reason to retire early . |
| 15 | In my own study of sexual aspects of disability carried out on behalf of the Committee on Sexual Problems of the Disabled ( SPOD ) and the Research Institute for Consumer Affairs , close attention was paid to the sexual experience of the survey population before and after the onset of handicap . |