Example sentences of "and carry out the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 2 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 3 | By setting up a trust for All Souls and carrying out the essential repairs , SAVE has demonstrated that even the most problematic redundant churches in the most difficult locations need not be a lost cause . |
| 4 | The workers operate in pairs , following a car from station to station and carrying out the entire work assignment belonging to their team . |
| 5 | General practitioners are well placed to diagnose effusion and carry out the necessary surveillance . |
| 6 | Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted . |
| 7 | In January 1990 Prime Minister V. P. Singh made some low-level appointments to the Council of Ministers [ see p. 37346 ] , and carried out the first major expansion of his Ministry in late April [ see p. 37378 ] . |
| 8 | In Shepherd 's Bush , where he grew up , he and his family suffered an incident in which the police , who had surrounded the house in order to arrest Christie 's brother ( on a charge which never came to court ) then burst in and carried out the violent , unprovoked arrest of Christie and his father . |