Example sentences of "[pers pn] carry [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Teachers need not be afraid of explaining to pupils their reasons for wanting them to carry out a certain piece of investigatory work .
2 When I carried out a second interview with the DGM in 1989 , the district was still arguing the case with the RHA for the £2.1 million ( then uplifted to £2.5 million ) to be made available .
3 While writing this book I carried out a personal survey of the whole sky , using the binoculars which I have listed on page 16 .
4 Because the people of really did n't feel they 'd been consulted , I , I carried out a little survey of my own and got a very good response .
5 Each style equips you to carry out a different stage in the learning cycle .
6 If this is true ( and it is not so far-fetched : if you carry on an intelligent argument with your readers in the columns of a newspaper , you can not expect them to believe that the responsibilities of self-government are beyond them ) , then it would seem a good example of propaganda having the opposite effect to that intended .
7 Certain infallible rules have been established , and we carry on an unvarying routine in which we apply the same theory to the same cases . ’
8 To test these comparative static predictions , we carry out a similar exercise on the actual data .
9 More formally , if equations ( 3.6 ) — ( 3.8 ) are the ‘ truth ’ and we carry out an ordinary least-squares regression of C t on Y t , as shown in equation ( 3.9 ) , then , assuming that we have a very large sample so that we can use population variances in place of sample variances , our estimator of will tend to the conventional formula : where is the covariance between C and Y and is the variance of Y.
10 In 1990 we carried out a limited survey of 50 Asian elders attending a day centre based in inner city Leicester .
11 And locally we carried out a similar exercise some six months ago which showed that eighty two percent of the businesses were still there after months .
12 Because we , we had this when , when we carried out a political fund ballot erm and we asked for time off for stewards to go and talk to members and we asked for time off for a seminar , for a one day seminar .
13 Technology is a key element of our strategy , and in 1992 we carried out a major review of our research and engineering activities .
14 We carried out a wide reaching survey in every department and among all grades of staff in our 90 hotels in Canada and North America , ’ she said .
15 We carried out a prospective randomised controlled trial of conventional treatment versus conventional treatment plus NIPPV , in 60 patients with acute ventilatory failure due to exacerbations of COAD .
16 When I was Chairman of the Crofters Commission we carried out a modest experiment in encouraging school children in crofting areas to improve the appearance of their villages .
17 Prior to preparing the timetable we carried out a public consultation in the Livingston area to ascertain if there was any suggestions that could be gainfully incorporated into contract specifications .
18 Sister Norma Spence of Belfast City Hospital said : ‘ We carried out an extensive survey asking patients to suggest ways in which the service at the day hospital could be improved ’ .
19 It would be placing too heavy a burden on an employer to require him to carry out a formal medical investigation and , even if he did , such an investigation would rarely be fruitful because of the transient nature of the employee 's symptoms and complaints .
20 ( Daly 1975 , p. 75 ) and ‘ the ability of people to reach destinations at which they carry out a given activity … ’
21 They carried on an extensive trade in a variety of products such as cattle cake , seed corn , manure and farm fertilisers .
22 The Hygiene supervisors felt as though the planes would land on their heads , but this did not stop them carrying out a thorough and hygienic job .
23 ‘ The refinancing will place the necessary cash at the disposal of Norsk Data A/S , enabling it to carry out a private resolution in which its unsecured creditors are offered a cash dividend of 25% , but the banks ‘ required as a condition for financing that the present share capital shall be written down to zero , and that a share issue shall be carried out by partly converting the banks ’ debt into equity . ’
24 From 1331 to 1336 he carried on a bitter dispute with Bishop William de Ayreminne of Norwich [ q.v . ] .
25 After several cross-sectional studies with colleagues , he carried out a large-scale prospective enquiry in Canberra ( Henderson et al. , 1980 ) .
26 Assisted by Norcott and Smith , Woolwich shipwrights , he carried out a tremendous feat of engineering .
27 Another alleged he carried out an illegal abortion at her home .
28 A ROBBER aged 74 was freed yesterday after a judge heard how he carried out an armed raid for the love of his wheelchair-bound mistress .
29 He carried out an observational study of ear , nose , and throat outpatient clinics and showed that there were systematic variations in patient assessment routines among consultants , rooted in differences between the specialists in their informal decision making rules .
30 Finally , his inductivist conscience was satisfied and he carried out an inductive inference to conclude , ‘ I am always fed at 9 a.m . ’ .
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