Example sentences of "be carry [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 These include policies of enforced separation whereby only activities that do not cause conflicts are carried on within a single entity , declining to act in situations of acute conflict , use of independence policies and Chinese walls .
2 Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor .
3 This case also often occurs in practice due to the results of cases such as grouped meter readings from customers who were at home when the meter reader called , combined with customers ' own readings carried out because they were out when the meter reader called , and a number of special checks that are carried out at a different time .
4 In the West , business agreements are carried out at a distance , say six feet or more .
5 Here again they state that the form is for use where works are carried out for an agreed lump sum and where an architect or supervising officer has been appointed on behalf of the employer .
6 Certain features are carried out on a large scale .
7 Professor J. P. Payne of the Department of Anaesthetics at the Royal College of Surgeons insists that a research nurse should always be present when tests are carried out on a patient .
8 Measurements are carried out on a sample clamped in a thermostat .
9 To make sure the system is working says stocktaking exercises are carried out on a regular basis and there are random checks of the collections .
10 They dispense justice , settle land disputes , give orders to civil servants ( which are carried out with an alacrity unknown earlier ) .
11 Sensitivity at the outset far outweighs a full routine of complicated strokes if they are carried out in a mechanical and impersonal manner .
12 Current powers do not allow for searches that are based on a policeman 's hunch that someone may be carrying an illicit article , or for blanket searches that are carried out in a particular area or among particular groups .
13 The Government may be the paymaster , but the actual negotiations are carried out by a team of health authority representatives who might be industrial relations experts but usually are not .
14 While the majority are carried out by a person known to the victim , random attacks on strangers are on the increase .
15 This should not include VAT , as this is only payable when the repairs are carried out by a contractor/repairer who is VAT registered .
16 The defendant had produced a program called " Oscar " , a job scheduling program for controlling the order in which tasks are carried out by a computer .
17 Sometimes the salespeople carry out merchandising activities like building up shelf displays , providing window stickers and in-store advertising , although sometimes these duties are carried out by a separate merchandiser or team of merchandisers , particularly when some form of demonstration or product promotion is required .
18 NEW WAYS TO DIP INTO INFORMATION Document image processing can only fulfil vendors ' claims if the right analysis and preparation are carried out before a decision to buy is made
19 These three jobs are carried out within a time dimension .
20 Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception .
21 The work has been carried out through a rolling programme covering 19 occupational areas and the results are published in the official journal of the EC .
22 REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place .
23 The main testing has been operational , but it has been carried out under a variety of conditions and the low-level sub-programs in particular have survived essentially unchanged through several changes to the program .
24 The most severe tests have already been carried out on a man and a woman , unconnected with the project , last week .
25 Until fairly recently , forestry has often been carried out on a very big scale , with tens of thousands of hectares being covered and public access made difficult .
26 Workflow software is able to recognise when a particular action has been carried out on a document and can then carry out other actions ( which were previously done manually ) by itself .
27 In tonight 's programme , Laura and her parents discover whether she is suitable for the surgery , which has only been carried out on a handful of other patients and is still at the experimental stage .
28 Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised .
29 Some rural districts , however , still lack separate housing departments staffed by professionally trained housing managers , and in extreme instances allocations have been carried out on a more or less ad hoc basis by local councillors .
30 In the end , he had to settle for a survey which had been carried out on a national scale by a well-known agency .
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