Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mellor told Mr Major he felt unable to carry on in a phone call early yesterday morning .
2 One therefore gets trapped into a situation where it appears much easier to carry on in the business than to divest , or move out .
3 ‘ In no way will there be enough teams left to carry on in the age groups concerned .
4 The Minister warned : ‘ He may be able to carry on in the job but he can not do so effectively .
5 ( c ) Management problems Where a practice is carried on in a number of different locations : ( 1 ) rivalry between different offices will naturally occur and is generally healthy , but the partners should not overlook the potential for a fissiparous tendency to develop .
6 Yet there is no doubt that they have an active , social life , full of real and caring communication , carried on in a language quite alien to our own experience of mind and meaning .
7 Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school .
8 Some 1 500 periodicals are currently taken ; these reflect the wide range of scientific activity carried on in the Garden .
9 Another important industrial activity carried on in the neighbourhood was the extraction of salt from sea water .
10 The teaching is carried on in the form of folklore and tribal legends .
11 The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 .
12 The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood .
13 Perhaps the chemical-sensitive patient is like the miner 's canary , carried along in a cage to detect dangerous accumulations of gas in the pit .
14 The basic question at issue in the debate is whether the United Kingdom is to be carried along in the wake of those changes or to be a driving force for change .
15 Their style was exceptionally clear and one was carried along in the unfolding of an argument which seemed as majestically inevitable as the development of a Bach fugue .
16 Although composition through improvisation is the major thrust of this department 's practice , this is carried through in a manner that allows children to become skilled in the basic techniques of certain musical instruments .
17 That legislation can not be carried through in the remainder of this Parliament and will be a matter for the next Parliament .
18 The reforms of Joseph II ( 1780–90 ) , which were carried through in the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment , included a secularisation of education and the recognition of the rights of the Slav subjects of the Empire to instruct in their own language .
19 The reform was not carried through in the House but the phrenologists urged or reformers elsewhere and , indirectly , their enthusiasm led on to William Forster 's Education Bill of 1870 which established in Britain the system of elementary schools for all .
20 As a testimony to one trade-unionist 's authority and stature , carried through in the face of some hostility within the administration and somewhat glacial relations with Denis Healey at the Treasury , it was a remarkable accomplishment .
21 ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’
22 Today pioneering work is being carried out in every faculty : engineers work on the motor car engine — botanists on plant breeding — physicists on the production of images of the soft tissue of the human body using revolutionary new techniques — social scientists on the political development of Eastern Europe and on computer systems which mimic human experts — literary scholars produce new insights into the works of major writers .
23 Detectives say they 're almost certain the same people were behind the two break-ins carried out in a north Oxfordshire village .
24 It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin .
25 There is a genuine exchange , a genuine sale and a genuine investment company , the whole transaction being carried out in a way which the Act , in express terms , provides for .
26 There is no doubt that reform of the common agricultural policy must be carried out in a way which ensures that there is no discrimination against farmers in the United Kingdom .
27 For instance , the basic activity in ( 2 ) is painting the general ; but the sentence tells us more specifically that it is an activity carried out in a way that envisages the general as seated .
28 Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings .
29 This study was carried out in a range of locations and tenures , and tested people 's awareness of energy saving products , conservation measures , and novel types of energy technology using ambient energy ( eg solar collectors ) , all rated against their costs of installation , running and maintenance .
30 When the reaction is carried out in a dish , complex moving patterns of coloured bands spontaneously arise , including concentric rings and spirals .
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