Example sentences of "[prep] carrying [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating .
2 Mr Justice Ognall said that after carrying out the killing , Green ‘ took determined and sophisticated steps in an effort to mislead the police ’ .
3 Mr Justice Ognall said that after carrying out the killing , Green ‘ took determined and sophisticated steps in an effort to mislead the police ’ .
4 The court was , I think , going no further than was necessary to decide the case before it : the corporation was a private corporation formed under an Act of Parliament which was capable of holding property and of carrying on a business .
5 Criminal and civil liability under Part II of the Consumer Protection Act attaches only to persons who are acting ‘ in the course of carrying on a business . ’
6 Joseph Anthony Villa , boss of the company since 1966 , admitted 13 charges of carrying on a food business in unclean premises .
7 To obtain interest relief on loans to subscribe shares in a Newco which is to purchase the business of , rather than shares in , Target , it appears that management no longer has the difficulty of persuading the Revenue that Newco " exists wholly or mainly for the purpose of carrying on a trade … " , as required by s13A(2) ( a ) .
8 There the Revenue argued that , at the time the tax payers subscribed their shares , Newco did not exist for the purpose of carrying on a trade ; its only identifiable purpose was to acquire a business .
9 Management will want to ensure that Newco is a company which " exists for the purpose of carrying on a trade or trades on a commercial basis " within s13A(2) TA 1988 , and that this purpose test is satisfied from the commencement of its first accounting period .
10 In other words , whilst women , as it were , merely conducted the animal-like repetitive tasks of carrying on the reproduction of the human race , men , by one supreme symbolic act , imposed themselves upon nature and enacted a cultural rebirth .
11 Job fractionation is a way of reducing costs of carrying on the work by reducing the skill contribution of the individual who performs it .
12 The proposal was that His Majesty would invite certain individuals as individuals to take upon their shoulders the burden of carrying on the Government and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuel ( sic ) had stated that they were prepared to act accordingly … the Administration would not exist for a period longer than was necessary to dispose of the emergency , and when that purpose was achieved the political parties would resume their respective positions .
13 There was no question of his ever returning to the office , or of carrying on the firm .
14 But the both brothers who owned it er Charles er John and Tom were becoming very very aged and were not capable of carrying on the job .
15 Though that Act makes the partnership a corporation , [ it is said ] … that this is merely for the purpose of carrying on the business mentioned in it , and that it can only sue in respect of matters necessarily incident to that purpose .
16 we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative .
17 NURSES ' leaders yesterday accused the media of carrying out a witch hunt in exposing health workers with the AIDS virus .
18 Interviews conducted by the investigators in the course of carrying out a pilot survey into the practice of management accounting , consultancy work and casual observation through visiting companies , have all provided substantial evidence of considerable divergence between the prescriptions of textbook theory and actual industrial practice .
19 In view of the vast size of Siberia , the relatively small numbers of Russians operating there in the seventeenth century , and the difficulty of carrying out a census of a mobile population , it seems likely that these figures somewhat underestimate the number of indigenous Siberians before the Russian conquest .
20 Yes , it 's another way of carrying out a procedure most of us prefer never to need , but are realistic enough to know is sometimes inevitable .
21 Mr Justice Jowitt commenting at the trial of Ernest Coveley , accused of carrying out a series of robberies with a cucumber The escargot laying season is between June and September .
22 Discussion with pupils on their methods of carrying out a number of the test questions showed that most of those interviewed had developed mental methods for the simplest kind of questions and could , on occasions , make good use of the knowledge they possessed .
23 The most detailed type of sorting consists of carrying out a die study .
24 The snag is that there may be more than one way of carrying out a task ; the example I gave was measuring a distance by arranging matches end to end , and by using Pythagoras .
25 Had she been expecting Naylor to be stuck for words or , now that the moment of carrying out the plan he had put to her had arrived , ducking it , then she was disappointed on both counts .
26 The official 's duty is to have in mind the best and most effective and efficient means of carrying out the council 's decision .
27 Indeed , all that remains today of the old inherent rights are the power to control the method of carrying out the functions which Parliament from time to time give to the local authorities and the power to make rules as to the conduct of the meetings of the local authority .
28 However , the main point does not so much concern the question of whether seasonal usage would be constant or not , or whether costs are rising or falling or staying constant , but that the cash payments method does not record the cost of carrying out the activities for the year .
29 Defence Minister Moshe Arens accused the Fatah affiliated Black Panther group of carrying out the attack .
30 All that the legislation provided for was that any loss incurred by the local authorities , as a result of carrying out the regulations , would fall as a charge upon the Exchequer .
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