Example sentences of "[been] carry [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , many of the postures struck in the 19th century have been carried through to recent times ; the belief , for example , that the educated do not enter business is still widespread , if not endemic in the national consciousness .
2 As a result , a whole range of measures including stricter disciplinary codes , work reorganisation and redundancies have been carried through in large numbers of firms ( Hyman and Elger , 1981 ) .
3 Section 10 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 and s.213 of the Insolvency Act 1986 together provide that if in the course of winding up it appears that any business of the company has been carried on with intent to defraud creditors of the company or other persons , or for any fraudulent purpose , the liquidator may apply to the court for a declaration that any persons who were knowingly parties to such fraudulent trading are liable to make such contributions to the company 's assets as the court thinks proper .
4 At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's .
5 The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period .
6 Advertising has been banned in Iceland since 1971 ; surveys of 12–16 year olds in Reykjavik ( where 40% of the entire age- group live ) have been carried out since 1974 and show a very clear trend .
7 Considerable research has been carried out since 1973 by the Department of Geology at Cardiff University .
8 On Aug. 29 Nazarbayev closed the nuclear testing site at Semipalatinsk where over 500 nuclear explosions had been carried out since 1949 .
9 No executions had been carried out since 1984 , and there were currently 287 people in prison waiting for parliament to confirm or commute their death sentences ( mostly handed down in the early 1980s ) .
10 As we have already discussed , the ancestry of the rose is extremely wide and complicated , and although extraordinary genealogical detective work has been carried out into many family trees , one wonders how it is possible to be sure of the right direction when travelling through the mists and fogs of time , especially during the period before copyright was extended to plants , when secrecy was a safeguard against competition .
11 Special investigations have also been carried out into British aid for India and the payment of pensions in Gibraltar .
12 Research reviews have also been carried out of existing knowledge about inequalities between men and women and between the ethnic groups in the UK in respect of both health and health care .
13 The European Convention is different in kind , and the British signatories of it , worthy predecessors to the signatories of the Treaty of Brussels in 1972 , put an end to a period of more than four centuries during which no causes have been carried out of this realm .
14 This is why we appear to be witnessing a new round of military coup attempts in those happy places where western prescriptions have been carried out with such fidelity : for example , Fujimoro in Peru last week , and the events in Venezuela in February .
15 The development of a separate manpower policy agency seems to have been carried out with all these motives in minds The University Grants Committee has been seen as serving the second and third purposes .
16 and a large reform had been carried out with little trouble .
17 However , some interesting experiments have been carried out with another polygamous bird , the long-tailed widow bird .
18 We readily agreed that the conversion had been carried out with more imagination than we would have been able to bring to it , but could we afford it ?
19 When a research project is written up it will probably not be any grandiose offering ( indeed it will probably be all the better for not being grandiose ) , but if the research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy and the statement of results does not go beyond the limits justified by the data then a useful craftsmanlike job of work will have been accomplished .
20 The negotiations have been carried out with utmost discretion , and involved on the Basque side just two members of the ruling Basque Nationalist Party ( apart from José Ardanza , the Basque government 's president ) and José Alberto Pradena , the governor of the Basque province of Guipuzcoa , the capital of which is Bilbao .
21 Similar studies have been carried out for other countries , although the methods vary , reflecting the differences in availability of data and in fiscal systems .
22 Pilot tests have been carried out for much of this year with both the Choice loans package and direct access , but TSB Direct was formally established on November 1 .
23 This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent .
24 Since there was little practical guidance available in the literature and most previous research had not been carried out under normal classroom conditions , we decided to enlist the help of a number of experienced teachers who were using ‘ collaborative approaches successfully .
25 After measurements had been carried out under each of these conditions , the metre rule was moved back towards the experimenter so that the subject could see his/her finger when pointing .
26 Phase I clinical trials have been carried out on healthy volunteers to evaluate the way the drug is absorbed and its potential toxicity .
27 He is blind to the independent studies that have been carried out on that programme , such as that by Professor Snower of Birkbeck college , which demonstrates clearly and beyond doubt how damaging those proposals would be to the creation of jobs in this country .
28 As a consequence the struggle for Palestine has been carried out on many levels , creating a complexity which even the participants have at times found difficult to follow .
29 Restoration work has been carried out on two towers in Surrey .
30 Species develop , it is argued , specific forms of innate behaviours and drives which are geared towards survival and reproduction and , while much of this work has been carried out on non-human species , it has indeed been applied directly to the human animal : Desmond Morris 's ‘ naked ape ’ .
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