Example sentences of "carry [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Norman had become a bit weary of struggling through the Edinburgh traffic jams from his home in Strathaven each day for 16 months since being asked by Peter Wood , then Managing Director of Financial Services Division , to take over the running of RBIS while a management consultancy exercise was carried out on the company by the Boston Consultancy Group .
32 However , little research has been carried out on the quantities of wood required .
33 But , above all , more intensive studies need to be carried out on the pottery of the second half of the fourth century to ensure a greater refinement in dating .
34 The MEng project will be carried out on the sponsor 's premises .
35 Similarly , Protagon have had tests carried out on the performance significance of being able to adjust string tensions .
36 Seston T O N So sea water analysis then is carried out on the water which passes through the forty five mu filter .
37 In 1985 a land-drainage scheme was carried out on the river Erewash near Eastwood in Nottinghamshire .
38 Most interviews , including radio , can be carried out on the telephone , with the reporter asking a few prepared questions .
39 Many experiments have been carried out on the perception of stress , and it is clear that many different sound characteristics are important in making a syllable recognisably stressed .
40 Thanks to the volume of work carried out on the Enron project , UK turnover last year was ahead of budget , with net profit being more or less on budget .
41 Tests carried out on the prototype car 208 , showed that the car should accelerate to a speed of 30.5 m.p.h. in 17 seconds , against 23 seconds for a bus .
42 It was carried out on the orders of Salim Al-Makesh to give himself time to flee the terrorist base before Delta destroyed it . ’
43 Perhaps they had been carried out on the orders of someone else ?
44 From the time of Laurence little work was carried out on the Palace and it was again allowed to fall into decay .
45 Is there any obligation for an external audit to be carried out on the books and records of the organisation , or is this a matter to be decided according to an internally agreed constitution ?
46 The work would be carried out on the understanding that the resulting products would be returned to the country of origin .
47 Using a word processor , all corrections are carried out on the screen before a document is printed .
48 But it is imperative to ensure that research is carried out on the value of screening for gestational diabetes in those hitherto neglected settings .
49 A special study has been carried out on the need to balance environmental improvements with potential disruption of essential traffic .
50 A special study has been carried out on the need to balance environmental improvements with potential disruption of essential traffic .
51 A split-half reliability carried out on the data from children in the standardisation sample between the ages of 4 years and 8 years 11 months produced correlations of between 0.64 and 0.84 for the different items .
52 Many detailed studies have been carried out on the nature of the consumption relationship and all seem to agree that , for the community as a whole , consumption is related in some way to income .
53 Experiments will be carried out on the nature and development of the strategies that reasoners learn to construct , and on the sources of difficulty in making meta-deductions .
54 Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start .
55 * Russian scientists have reported large numbers of seals dying of blood cancer in the White and Barents Seas , allegedly as a result of radioactive waste resulting from the nuclear tests previously carried out on the Novaya Zemlya peninsula [ see Nuclear Power section ] .
56 Their pointing gestures and vocalisations will be video-recorded to allow detailed analyses to be carried out on the characteristics of pre-verbal communication .
57 shortlisting should be carried out on the basis of a previously agreed person specification detailing the qualifications , experience and skills necessary to do the job ;
58 The analysis stage is invariably carried out on the basis of written responses to a questionnaire .
59 Psychologists theorizing about animal Umwelten need to ask what such inferences might be , what is the perceptual evidence in which the animal 's concepts are anchored , and what are the motor activities which test for them or which are carried out on the basis of conditional tests defined in terms of them .
60 Segmentation This may be carried out on the basis of ( i ) intuition techniques and product and interpretation ; or ( ii ) use of market research positioning data ( suitably re-arranged and interpreted ) ; or ( iii ) using an analysis of attribute sets .
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