Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Care must be taken to ensure that the new company , or its qualifying subsidiaries , carry on qualifying trades and , notably , film production companies and research and development companies qualify , so long as their activities are being carried on on a commercial basis with a view to profit . |
2 | From the simplest beginnings the reader is carried along on a step-by-step journey to adventures in ‘ Harmonic landscaping ’ and a variety of textures . |
3 | My giddiness had gone and I felt happy and relaxed , as if I was being carried along on a slow , peaceful current . |
4 | A covering note would detail tasks which would have to be carried out on a regular basis and which agent is responsible for these tasks . |
5 | To make sure the system is working says stocktaking exercises are carried out on a regular basis and there are random checks of the collections . |
6 | Computer Science is a practical subject and , at Edinburgh , students are fortunate in having the opportunity to use systems ranging from single chip microprocessors to some of the world 's highest performance parallel processing systems , with much of their work being carried out on a distributed system of UNIX-based workstations . |
7 | Similarly , interviews with pupils are included but were not carried out on a systematic basis and the results have not been correlated with pupils ' GT4 scores . |
8 | I usually have some sympathy for a player who is dismissed simply for being over-aggressive , but I draw the line when this aggro is carried out on a fellow team mate . |
9 | A prospective cohort study [ 6 ] carried out on a general population in the west of Scotland found that mortality from all causes was higher in passive smokers than in a control group of nonsmokers , as were all causes of death related to smoking , including mortality from lung cancer and ischaemic heart disease . |
10 | This is despite evidence that little more than 0.1 per cent of tropical forestry is in reality carried out on a sustainable basis . |
11 | Prior to the meeting , the IWC 's scientific committee had said that the population of minke whales had now recovered to the point where renewed commercial hunting could be carried out on a sustainable basis . |
12 | Personal selling is a very expensive activity to maintain , and it may be best suited to relatively concentrated markets , such as in the UK for ceramics or steel manufacture , or those in which buying is carried out on a centralised basis . |
13 | As well as simple copying , assemble editing can be carried out on a stop-start basis under manual control of the machines provided that the VCR has the backspace edit facility . |
14 | The calculation of additional financing costs may also be carried out on a comparative basis , comparing what the costs would have been had the project not been delayed and disrupted compared with actual costs . |
15 | Lichen research is carried out on a world-wide collection which is particularly good on European crustose lichens . |
16 | Where a sanitiser can have advantages is where a particular cleaning task is carried out on a repetitive basis as for example the daily cleaning of a retail soft ice cream dispenser . |
17 | Stick making is still carried out on a limited scale , the Phoenix Stick Company at present occupying two floors of the main mill block . |
18 | As for the internal auditors ' role , ‘ they 're not expected to do a full statutory audit but a great deal of the detailed work which , carried out on a continuous basis , would greatly increase the probability of detecting fraud . ’ |
19 | the Chief Officer do n't quote me by it embarrass er I 've had with carried out on a larger sum other than that available . |
20 | Partial water changes will be sufficient — about 15% of the tank 's volume every fortnight , provided a larger water change of about 30% is carried out on a monthly basis . |
21 | The audit needs to be carried out on a periodic rather than on an ad hoc basis , and , like any other rational evaluation , needs to be conducted in a systematic way . |
22 | The human rights issue is also a priority of the region 's animation programme , which is carried out on a voluntary basis by the officers . |
23 | If it was , the voting would be carried out on a unanimous basis . |
24 | All the roofs will be surveyed using traditional techniques , but detailed investigation , using a range of monitoring equipment including infra-red thermography , ultrasonic pulse-echo testing and strain gauges , will be carried out on a smaller sample . |
25 | After some initial hesitation , the Church Commissioners agreed and now the remaining repairs , principally to the stonework , can be carried out on a rolling programme over several years . |
26 | Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised . |
27 | Some rural districts , however , still lack separate housing departments staffed by professionally trained housing managers , and in extreme instances allocations have been carried out on a more or less ad hoc basis by local councillors . |
28 | The first group of suggestions that follow can all be carried out on a single visit to the shore or group of shores . |
29 | In addition , a time series test was carried out on a random sample of 254 of these issues . |
30 | The hazards involved in this operation , the pollution to the environment , the problem of safeguarding the plutonium , and the extremely high costs mean that reprocessing is carried out on a commercial scale by only a handful of other nuclear nations , most notably France and the Soviet Union . |