Example sentences of "[being] carry on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 2 | The clearest testimony to the level of exchange being carried on between England and the Continent , especially in transactions involving gold , is the existence of sets of balances accompanied by weights . |
| 3 | In the Midlands , even in the large industrial towns , we find markets still being carried on with stalls pitched in a large open space , covering perhaps a couple of acres , exactly in the medieval fashion . |
| 4 | Alternatively , s.22(1) of the Alkali , etc. , Works Act 1906 provides for formal complaint to be made to HM Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate via their inspectors , by any local authority or inhabitant of the district , if a process to which the Act applies is being carried on in contravention of the provisions of the Act and a nuisance has arisen . |
| 5 | By the turn of the century , alignment research was on the increase , although it was being carried on by individuals working in isolation from each other . |