Example sentences of "carry [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angelica 's thinking that a bag of garbage has probably been carried along on the night swell and has become caught up amongst the pillars and the metal cross-tics ; there will always be somebody who 'll think that a couple of heavy stones and a drop out over the deepest part of the lake are an adequate way of disposing of all their empty cans and peelings and plate-scrapings . |
| 2 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 3 | The October revolution had been carried through on the assumption that Russia , although a relatively backward country and hardly ‘ ripe ’ for revolution in a Marxist sense , could help to bring about a European and later a worldwide transition to a communist social order . |
| 4 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 5 | Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible . |
| 6 | Her words were carried away on the breeze , to join the tumult of sounds . |
| 7 | Tug felt the call to join her , to leap to his feet and let himself be carried up on the tide , into a high and heroic world . |
| 8 | It was carried back on the blowing sand , but it moved unhurriedly forward . |
| 9 | An incomplete or sloppy check carried out on the canopy can be lethal , because if it comes off it is a matter of luck whether it hits or misses the tail . |
| 10 | We walked along the intersecting tyke walls and met a voluntary warden eager to talk to us about some of the work carried out on the reserve . |
| 11 | Very little research has been carried out on the functions of domestic pottery ; there must have been a variety of functions which , glibly , can be placed under the headings of cooking and storage , but behind such distinctions there is little clarity . |
| 12 | Despite the increased difficulties , trials have been carried out on the effects of homoeopathy in a chronic condition — rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 13 | The term ‘ stock-taking ’ refers to a physical check carried out on the bookstock to ensure that the library still actually has all of the items listed in its catalogue or shelf register . |
| 14 | In experiments carried out on the land , crop yields of beet and clover were half of those on the field treated with manure . |
| 15 | As she points out : Remarkably little research has been carried out on the question of how these filters operate , and by whom they are operated , yet any policies aimed at harmonizing the interests of agriculture , conservation and recreation in the countryside must be based upon an understanding of this problem . |
| 16 | SPAR 's behaviour seems better if two conditions apply : that the reasoner is known to be less reliable than the linguistic part of the system , as it might be if the texts processed describe a relatively open domain ; and that , as for example , in a machine translation task , no further non-linguistic processing will be carried out on the reading accepted . |
| 17 | ‘ No fatigue tests were carried out on the B 707–300 series horizontal stabiliser structure prior to USA or UK certification . |
| 18 | Laboratory experiments carried out on the subject have proved , almost always , frustrating . |
| 19 | There is still a great deal to be learnt about early Anglo-Saxon society , both as a result of new excavations , the publication of older ones and research carried out on the wealth of material already published or in museums . |
| 20 | On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days . |
| 21 | Instructions contained in the owner 's manual state that adjustment should be carried out on the tip opposite to the direction of turn by reducing the angle of incidence , one setting at a time , following which a flight test must be carried out . |
| 22 | But video films of fires carried out on the test rig suggest that alarms will sound too late . |
| 23 | CHECKED-BY a check has been carried out on the module at this point , probably as part of a quality inspection |
| 24 | Research was carried out on the stability of such ferries , which took some time . |
| 25 | Staff training : this should be carried out on the day of commencement or the day immediately preceding . |
| 26 | Although much work remains to be carried out on the coach , including repairs to windows and roof , restoration of interior compartments and finally repainting in L & SWR salmon pink and brown livery , it is hoped to complete the restoration within a year where the LSWR carriage will join the TVR coach and the two GWR coaches to form a very unique vintage train and to move the Gwili further up the valley . |
| 27 | The maintenance carried out on the aquarium was a regular 10% water change and a regular ( every two weeks ) larger water change of 20% using an aquarium gravel cleaner to rid the gravel of unwanted waste . |
| 28 | Detailed observations were carried out on the behaviour of the students during the actual course , and both students and teachers were interviewed as to their feelings in participating in this form of instruction . |
| 29 | 1.6 " the Premises " means the part of the Site described in the Second Schedule together with such of the Works and the Tenant 's Works as may from time to time have been carried out on the Premises This describes the premises which are to be demised to the tenant and which will include the tenant 's works and possibly also the landlord 's works where alterations or refurbishment works have been carried out to the premises by the landlord . |
| 30 | Similar analyses indicating new ordering principles have been carried out on the gardens of aristocrats ( e.g. Leone 1984 ) , furnishings , the disposal of rubbish and forms of cutlery ( Deetz 1977 ) . |