Example sentences of "[adj] to carry [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Baldwin and Samuel said that they were willing to serve under the Prime Minister and render all help possible to carry on the Government as a National Emergency Government until an emergency bill or bills had been passed by Parliament , which would restore once more British credit and the confidence of foreigners .
2 After that they are free to carry out the search for their birth parents .
3 The US surgeons are on standby to carry out the marathon multi-transplant operation if a suitable donor of the right age and blood type can be found .
4 Like the King in chess the Young King had possessed very little power of his own , yet without him it was impossible to carry on the game .
5 Mr. Clark called the attention of the Board to the schools , and to the female side of the house as he was ‘ certain if the business is conducted as it has been , it is impossible to carry out the system … ’ .
6 He was beset by difficulties ; it was impossible to carry out the perambulations during the harvest season .
7 It applies when , through no fault of either party , events take an unexpected turn making it impossible to carry out the contract as originally conceived .
8 It proved quite impossible to carry out the task assigned without involvement in the still fluid political situation .
9 If we go back a few years , I do n't know how many people remember before we had DOPACS , I remember when projects used to come into the group from on high , they used to filter through the organization , until they landed on somebody 's desk who was actually supposed to carry out the work .
10 She denied offering money to White to carry out the killing , after seeing a film showing a similar murder attempt .
11 10.5 Where the medical adviser considers that an employee is permanently unfit to carry out the duties of their post as a result of a violent incident at work , the Director of Social Work or nominated officer will discuss the matter with the employee concerned who may be accompanied by a trade union representative or some other person of the employee 's choice .
12 The reason why Hope should advocate Scott in particular , when a limited competition might give the ecclesiologically sounder Street the work , may have been that Scott was more likely to carry out the work successfully .
13 Make sure it is competent to carry out the work .
14 ( iii ) The occupier must take reasonable steps to check that the contractor was competent to carry out the work .
15 Wiring up plugs is something we all have to do , but a recent MORI survey suggests that almost half of British adults are unlikely to carry out the job correctly .
16 are still at an incompetent stage , they still are unable to carry out the job .
17 Twice during the 1980s , Brazil effectively defaulted on its foreign debt and on many occasions has declared itself unable to carry out the promises made in its successive Letters of Intent to the IMF .
18 Franco repeated the message of his 2 December letter when he said that he did not " see any advantage in change " and that if he were ever to delegate the leadership of the government , it would only be when he was no longer able to carry out the functions of that position as well as those of head of state .
19 He received his certificate in July 1947 but the British coal industry had been nationalised in January of that year and his new bosses told him that in the changed circumstances they would not be able to carry out the undertaking he had been given .
20 However , this is all due to change with the proposed introduction of a new chain ferry which will be able to carry twice the number of cars .
21 With a small sample it is not advisable to carry out the analysis in terms of individual papers since so few respondents read any single paper .
22 But Francis replied : ‘ With the squad I 've got , I 'm happy to carry on the way we are .
23 Balfour Beatty sub-contracted Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Partners ( Scotland ) Ltd to carry out the design .
24 The teacher may feel it is quicker and less tiring to carry out the task alone , or to ignore teaching opportunities .
25 Is it threatened , or do sufficient financial and manpower resources become available to carry on the thrust of research ?
26 Severn Trent says it 's been aware of the problem , but the money was never available to carry out the upgrading .
27 Less than half ( 45% ) said that the off-farm job imposed limitations on the farm and by far the most common reason given was lack of time available to carry out the farm work .
28 Many men will leave the aircraft with weights not far short of their own body weight ; almost all of this kit will be essential to carry out the soldiers ' tasks .
29 During the inquiry , Lord Romsey promised he would spend £9m on urgent restoration work on his estate , but that the income from visitors to Broadlands was insufficient to carry out the renovations .
30 In this chair , it was convenient to carry out the shaping and moulding of the parts before fitting the arms .
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