Example sentences of "be carry on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leathart in his report , dated 10 September 1833 , felt that " … generally the mines are carried on with spirit , and conducted with skill … |
| 2 | The first name ‘ Delves ’ , he confided , is an acronym for ‘ The deeds of Lenin are carried on by Stalin ’ . |
| 3 | Before Reflexology was researched and developed in America in the 1930s , work on reflexes of the feet had been carried on in China for thousands of years . |
| 4 | I hope that this historical survey gives you some insight into the work that has been carried on regarding AI , in particular expert systems , for the maintenance of aircraft within the RAF . |
| 5 | By the later nineteenth century , these dangers were much less ; and perhaps more striking is Davy 's other remark , about how in his lifetime chemistry had ceased to be a science of furnaces and large quantities , and had become an activity to be carried on with spirit-lamps and test-tubes in the drawing room . |
| 6 | If true , these matters are of concern to the Bank as supervisor of the [ defendants ] and raise questions as to the continued fulfilment of the minimum criteria for authorisation set out in Schedule 3 to the Banking Act 1987 , which includes inter alia the requirement that directors , controllers and managers of authorised institutions shall be fit and proper to hold their positions and that the business of the institution will be carried on with integrity and skill and in a prudent manner . |
| 7 | It could now be argued that the unity of wartime should be carried on to deal with peacemaking , demobilization and economic reconstruction . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) The conditions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above are : ( a ) that the premises of the club are structurally adapted and bona ride used , or intended to be used , wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests of athletic sports or athletic games ; ( b ) that one or more of such sports or games is or are usually carried on out of doors and , when so carried on , can ( unless artificial lighting is used ) only be carried on during hours of daylight ; ( c ) that the said premises are regularly used , or are intended regularly to be used , during the winter period , for providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests , during the hours of daylight , of such a sport or game as is mentioned in paragraph ( ii ) above ; ( d ) that having regard to the time at which the said sport or game is usually carried on by members of the club and their guests , the permitted hours set out in section 53(3) of this Act are not suitable for the supply of alcoholic liquor in the said premises to persons who participate in that sport or game . |
| 9 | If the price has been fixed on the basis that a particular fact is correct , the acquirer will agree that the risk of it not being so , even if no one could have known , should fall on the seller , since the seller will have been paid a price which assumed that the warranty was correct ; although no doubt the seller will point out that the business is being bought as a going concern and a business can not be carried on without risk . |
| 10 | Most departments had their offices , though there were constant difficulties about telephones and electricity supplies , and very little in the way of fans ; communications between departments had to be carried on by messenger , for internal postal services were taking time to be reorganised . |
| 11 | Nobody thought trade could be carried on in India without a network of factories and fortifications , which meant that there would have to be a company with a charter to run them — the idea that the government might provide them would have struck the merchants as inappropriate and would have alarmed the politicians who would have had to impose taxes to pay for them . |
| 12 | This does not , however , enable a partnership with a foreign lawyer to be carried on within England and Wales . |
| 13 | They did not believe us , and were carried on to Banbury . |
| 14 | Two main lines were carried on by Richard Chaloner , cooper , and George , the youngest son who inherited the cottage and smithy that his father had erected on a piece of waste land east of the church , together with the lease of 3 acres of land enclosed from Myddlewood . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When high roads , bridges , canals etc , are in this manner made and supported by the commerce which is carried on by means of them , they can be made only where that commerce requires them , and consequently where it is proper to make them . |
| 21 | For example , Kerr ( 1968 , p. 16 ) defines the school curriculum as ‘ all the learning which is planned and guided by the school , whether it is carried on in groups or individually , inside or outside the school ’ . |
| 22 | For the most part , agricultural education which includes education for horticulture , forestry , poultry husbandry and dairying is carried on in specialist colleges of agriculture and horticulture , together with some general technical colleges . |
| 23 | So long as production is carried on in units of production which have a degree of real economic autonomy and ‘ employ ’ distinct groups of workers ( despite their general interdependence in terms of input/output relations ) there will exist real grounds for conflict between particular groups of workers and the ‘ social interest ’ , however democratically the latter is generated . |
| 24 | He 's carrying on like mama . ’ |
| 25 | Little wonder then that the Forest system was heartily detested by all classes of the king 's subjects , and that from the twelfth century onward a bitter and determined struggle was carried on between Crown and people for its abolition . |
| 26 | The profit-making activity of the sub-licensees was carried on outside Hong Kong but the grant of the sub-licences took place in Hong Kong where the taxpayer operated . |
| 27 | Whereupon Stoker , gifted with Dublin 's malice , wrote instead a novel — about a bloodsucking , ennobled gentleman whose business was carried on at night , in or around grand dramatic buildings . |
| 28 | His work on Linear B was carried on with flair by John Chadwick ( b.1920 ) . |
| 29 | A fruitless correspondence between Paton and Henderson was carried on throughout July 1931 . |
| 30 | Ogden 's craft was carried on by Christopher Caygill , who made brass-faced clocks with minute hands , and one of his apprentices , who married his master 's daughter , took over the business and made clocks with painted faces . |