Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 2 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 3 | Formalin fixed wax embedded sections ( 4 cm ) of the colonic tissues were dewaxed in xylene , rehydrated in alcohol and spirit ( 95% alcohol ) , each step being carried out for five minutes at room temperature , then washed in cold water . |
| 4 | Hybridisation was carried out for 18 hours at 50°C in a humid environment . |
| 5 | It has proved particularly useful for the management of high risk patients such as the medically unfit , frail and elderly in whom cholecystectomy is associated with mortality rates of 10% , or higher when carried out for acute complications . |
| 6 | This analysis was carried out for mixed schools only ( there were four single-sex schools in the sample , three boys ' and one girls ' ) . |
| 7 | Although stool collection in their study was only carried out for 24–48 hours , it was done at home . |
| 8 | Similar studies have been carried out for other countries , although the methods vary , reflecting the differences in availability of data and in fiscal systems . |
| 9 | Parental care is often carried out for many weeks with no harm coming to the young , but you occasionally get a pair that are very prolific and , in their need to spawn they will often eat their previous brood . |
| 10 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 11 | The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons described docking as ‘ an unjustified mutilation ’ unless carried out for medical reasons . |
| 12 | Cultivations are carried out for three reasons : to improve the soil crumb structure and so create an ideal seed-bed for the crop ; to uproot and kill weeds ; and to bury turf or crop residues where they will rot down and not compete with the ensuing crop . |
| 13 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 14 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 15 | This trade carried on for many years , but as a result of more advantageously located competition , it finally ceased working in about 1930 . |
| 16 | Let him go ’ , so the interpreter sat down and M. Ver carried on for five minutes more . |
| 17 | He carried on for two days but finally , in excruciating pain , had to go to hospital when a splint was put on his damaged limb . |
| 18 | Of the half million tests carried out for regulatory purposes in the year up to June 30 , 1989 , we are pleased to report that 998 out of 1,000 met the strict specifications of the European Community Directive . |
| 19 | the assessment of speaking and listening should , where possible , be informal , continuous and incidental , applied to tasks carried out for curricular purposes ; |
| 20 | The geochemical characteristics of specific formations can be quickly established and searches carried out for geochemical patterns associated with various styles of mineralisation . |
| 21 | Mr Hann came across Mr Ford through the investigative work he carries out for financial institutions . |