Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat in silence as she worked , and for that , at least , she was grateful , knowing it would be well-nigh impossible to carry on any kind of sane conversation right now . |
| 2 | I 'm fine , ’ Laura mumbled , so used to silence first thing in the morning that she was finding it incredibly difficult to carry on any form of conversation . |
| 3 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 4 | Each tank was carried on four pairs of tracks , making a total of 16 points of support to each vehicle . |
| 5 | When we came to a final stop we were carried up many flights of stairs , taken into an apartment and dumped on the floor . |
| 6 | Dunn ( 1983 ; 1984 ) in Cambridge has carried out extensive observations of sibling relationships and the effects of general family functioning of the arrival of a new baby . |
| 7 | The father , Mr P , also an English incomer to Orkney , had carried out various forms of abuse over a long period of time . |
| 8 | Vossen , Meijs and den Broeder [ 1988 ] have carried out similar studies of the meaning and structure in dictionary definitions , based on Dik 's [ 1987 ] ’ stepwise lexical decomposition ’ , which reduces the meaning of lexical items to a restricted set of basic lexical items . |
| 9 | The test can be carried out any time of day — there is no need to use the first morning urine — and its results are not affected by medicines such as pain relievers , antibiotics or the contraceptive pill . |
| 10 | A corresponding survey , carried out in Sweden in 1981 , found that orientation courses had only been evaluated in 8 libraries of 34 , one-third of the libraries had evaluated courses in manual information retrieval and about half the libraries with courses in computerized information retrieval had carried out some form of evaluation . |
| 11 | It is believed that all but two committees have carried out some form of investigation based on information provided in the 1991 series of reports . |
| 12 | 1992 ) , almost every DHA had met with GPs either individually or in small groups ; three-quarters had held general meetings in addition and two-thirds had carried out some form of survey . |
| 13 | Yes sir , the , you 'll recall that carrying out this re this particular review to finalise the er fire safety review and members have accepted the recommendations from that in which sought to ignore that although we have an limited number of specialists inspecting officers that we widened the remit of all employees in the Fire and Rescue Service so that all er operational fire fighters carried out some form of inspection , thereby producing a higher work output than before . |
| 14 | The research team includes people located in different parts of the country and they have carried out in-depth analyses of the campaign in 14 selected constituencies . |
| 15 | Hampton Utilities is a member of the British Jewellers Association , and its skilled craftsmen can carry out all sorts of repairs to silverware , antique and modern , including cutlery , candlesticks , mirrors and regimental medals . |
| 16 | Thames Water say they 'll no carry out further studies of the site over the next two to three years . |
| 17 | However , the OFT does carry out periodic reviews of trade association codes of practice . |
| 18 | As a consequence , only laboratories with immediate access to particle accelerators can carry out this sort of work . |
| 19 | Finally the Order gives permission to a number of statutory and other undertakings to carry out various types of development related to their own function . |
| 20 | Out of the monies voted from this public purse wages were to be paid to soldiers to carry out that work of defence . |
| 21 | It is of course perfectly possible in principle to carry out syntactic analysis of large corpuses manually ; but the work of extracting tokens and identifying the surrounding environment is then very much more time-consuming . |
| 22 | Finally , the additional time taken to read words occurring at the end of clauses and sentences might reflect the time taken to carry out syntactic processing of that particular clause or sentence . |
| 23 | Working under the auspices of the Centre for Science Studies and Science Policy at Lancaster , Drs Brian Wynne , John Wakeford and Stephen Payne have linked up with the Child Care and Development Group at the University of Cambridge to carry out comparative study of public interpretations of scientific and technological concepts . |
| 24 | The Bank also has the power to carry out regular investigations of a bank 's business . |
| 25 | The vetting does n't stop once membership has been approved : the BSIA uses two independent inspectorates — the Manned Services Inspectorate , and the National Approval Council for Security systems ( NACoSS ) , to carry out regular inspections of member companies . |
| 26 | The MEDIATRON is a modified stereo-cassette recorder , which is designed to carry out simultaneous recording of audio-signals , trigger pulses for photographic slides and digital signals from a computerized information retrieval system . |
| 27 | that failure to carry out individual terms of the contract will result in a fine on each occasion : an amount of X for Anne ; and Y for Avril and James Grant , respectively . |
| 28 | However , as we will see in this chapter , it is possible to carry out systematic studies of production ; and the results of such studies have an essential contribution to make to our understanding of language processing . |
| 29 | At present , authorities lack the resources to carry out systematic inspections of licensed sites , as there are only 11 officers to cover over 4,000 waste disposal sites in the UK . |
| 30 | Wandsworth had accused union members of acting in breach of their employment contracts and of a statutory duty to carry out continuous assessment of pupils ' work . |