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

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1 Before they were colonized the Zande regularly carried out autopsies on the dead bodies of suspected witches , to see whether their bodies revealed any trace of the deadly ‘ witchcraft substance ’ ( mangu ) or essence in the small intestine .
2 During 1992 , more than 30 film crews have carried out features on the Group .
3 If we live in a free society we can not carry out experiments on the real world so it would not be possible to go ahead and build the road just to see what would happen .
4 Customers can call Firstdirect at any time of the day or night at local call rates and be immediately connected to a banking representative who will carry out instructions on the computer .
5 Utilizing the instructional capabilities of the PLATO computer-based education system , the course trains users how to carry out searches on the library shelf-list database .
6 Why was Ell 's husband authorized to come to this place to carry out tests on the atmosphere and water ?
7 In 1818 he was employed to carry out repairs on the parish church in Halifax , West Yorkshire , and the following year he settled in Leeds , from where he developed a substantial practice in the Yorkshire area , particularly as a designer of churches .
8 Powered by six NK11As of 2,500hp each this strategic bomber was intended to be based in Hokkaido to carry out attacks on the Continental USA , using radar to ensure target identification at night or in bad weather .
9 LOYALIST terrorists are planning to carry out attacks on the homes of RUC officers because of alleged harassment of women and children during recent house searches and arrest operations .
10 The example shows that the use of this model allows the planner to examine the consequences of changes in the system ( for example , a new train timetable , differing train lengths , greater variability in train arrival times , more road traffic ) without carrying out experiments on the real world which , in this case , would be possible but would also be very expensive and inconvenient to road and rail users .
11 During those two weeks Patrick deliberately kept himself busy , carrying out checks on the precautions at onshore installations , flying out to the offshore platforms .
12 It is also valuable when adding new socket outlets , improving lighting , extending circuits , tracing short circuits and breaks in wiring , installing fixed appliances , and carrying out repairs on a wide range of electrical equipment , including hi-fi , doorbells , toasters , hairdryers , and decorative lights .
13 Moldovan sources denied carrying out air-raids on the town on June 22 .
14 Our brief was to board and rummage as many of these foreign vessels as possible and at the same time carry out checks on the British boats to control any possible lead in duty free stores .
15 He carried out experiments on the propagation of short and ultra-short radio waves , which were then thought to be unusable .
16 In 1982 the Institute of Hydrology carried out trials on the Trannon , and in 1986 was able to come up with a number of constructive lessons to be learned from this sorry story .
17 Subsequent work by Cassel and Parker ( 1989 ) carried out tests on the effectiveness of different designs of GUI , focusing especially on the use of icons to represent classes of spatial data .
18 Offline Integrity carries out checks on the files used by the LIFESPAN Offline System for retention of information relating to files which are to be offlined , those which have been offlined and those which are to be restored from the offline media .
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