Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] in a [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 ( 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Detectives say they 're almost certain the same people were behind the two break-ins carried out in a north Oxfordshire village .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 When the reaction is carried out in a dish , complex moving patterns of coloured bands spontaneously arise , including concentric rings and spirals .
14 Conversations with pupils about ‘ handicap ’ have already been carried out in a pilot study .
15 He is backed by Adrian Sinfield , professor of social policy at Edinburgh University , whose concern is that attacks on the welfare state are being carried out in a climate of increasing economic inequality and worsening poverty .
16 The process can be carried out in a micro-wave oven .
17 They went on to suggest that where complex insider activities are being carried out in a sub-language designed to exclude the uninformed , the best ethnography would probably be carried out by the insider/ethnographer .
18 The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments .
19 All these operations should be carried out in a fume cupboard as the vapours are harmful , and surgical gloves should be used to protect the hands from the dye .
20 All operations involving HF should be carried out in a fume cupboard , and the operator protected with gloves and goggles .
21 Straight holding and in vitro injection pipettes are appropriate for manipulations carried out in a manipulation chamber .
22 The by-election following the death of Mr Richard Holt , the longstanding Conservative MP , was carried out in a glare of national publicity .
23 These functions are not carried out in a vacuum ; they are affected by certain key contingencies or variables .
24 An experiment using silicic acid , and being carried out in a laboratory 5 metres away through a brick wall , affected the normal pattern of salt crystals being observed in Dr Reid 's laboratory .
25 This is based on calculations performed by chemical engineers and also on experimental trials carried out in a laboratory or pilot plant .
26 Hence , such experiments are normally carried out in a laboratory permanently equipped with a wind-tunnel ( the name for any system providing a working air stream ) , a water flume or channel ( similar systems with water ) , or a towing tank ( a large tank of stationary water through which an obstacle can be moved ) .
27 The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia .
28 The paint shop staff at Blundell Street Depot in 1908 , where car-painting was carried out in a corner of the depot surrounded by sheeting , until transferred to Marton in September 1911 .
29 This process of identification and analysis may be carried out in a number of ways , for instance : * by Using intuition based upon an interpretation of existing knowledge of the market ; * by Using any of the wide array of market research techniques , based on internal sources of information about the market , and field research .
30 [ 2 ] During 1991 and 1992 , these initial recommendations were greatly revised and reorganised , largely as a result of work carried out in a number of small specialist work groups , set up following a detailed technical review meeting held in November 1991. [ 3 ] A second draft ( P2 ) began publication as a series of electronic fascicles in April 1992 , and is due for completion in July 1993 , following a further technical review in May , and presentation to the TEI 's Advisory Board in June .
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