Example sentences of "carry on [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I wanted to carry on as an airborne soldier , a paratrooper , enjoying the prestige which came from being part of an elite , and also the better pay and training opportunities that were the lot of such units .
2 Yes , I c I was fortunate to be able to carry on at the same place .
3 When that happens , you simply ask the reader to carry on to the next shock-horror exclusive , and the next , and the next , and so on , until the point is driven home .
4 Therefore they would have to carry on with the remaining group .
5 Trying to carry on with the normal routine while suffering from depression has been likened to driving a car in top gear with the brakes full on .
6 The FIVE NATIONS COMMITTEE has agreed to carry on with the successful recent experiment of having the referees ‘ wired ’ to the commentators ' headphones during games .
7 Great efforts would be needed to restore the party to its strong position of 1914 and to carry on with the fundamental changes that had been under way then , but the war years had done no lasting damage .
8 ‘ He obviously was n't going to carry on with the Seven ; he 'd had his fun with it . ’
9 Those who care for ‘ ordinary ’ old people learn much about the courage and competence which so many display ; they discover that it is their ordinariness which is remarkable — their determination to carry on with the daily business of life , often in the face of considerable difficulties .
10 I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’
11 and erm , it is therefore in those circumstances foolhardy in my opinion to carry on with the British Assessment Programme at the present rate when the effects on our roads are likely to be so drastic
12 Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path .
13 Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board .
14 It has been so successful it is to carry on in a slimmed down form , with a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board .
15 There were insufficient funds for a third appointment so that Allan Hayhurst had to carry on in an honourary capacity combining once again the offices of Secretary and Treasurer .
16 After various consultations with interested parties , it was decided to carry on in the traditional manner .
17 Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business .
18 The remainder deflected downwards into the rear pressurised compartment , went straight through the conduit carrying the cables to the lower rear turret , then carried on into the rear gunner 's position , perforating the hatch and embedding itself in the lagging on the armour plating at the rear of the position .
19 Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year .
20 The identification with the ‘ home town ’ ( furusato ) was carried on into the next , urban-born generation .
21 This , by the way , erm , it it is applied with this study , and that is during the thirties , particularly on the , well it it actually carried on into the forties , but but the , there was a almost a character in many plays , where one one character was , in effect , the family black sheep .
22 Research is , of course , carried on outside the corporate sector in universities and other institutions of learning ; even so , these bodies are increasingly dependent on commercial sponsorship , and corporate funds tend to flow more readily into projects identified by , or otherwise of interest to , the sponsor .
23 Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift .
24 can a radically different work still be carried on under a single heading or department when there is not just diversity of approach but more serious and fundamental differences about the object of knowledge ( despite overlapping of the actual material of study ) ?
25 " I shall only allow those boys to use the range who have attained considerable proficiency in their physical exercises and drill ; and all shooting will be carried on under the strictest supervision .
26 Articles 100 and 235 of the Treaty of Rome provide a mechanism whereby the amassment of power by the Community may be carried on as a continuous process .
27 For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation .
28 All this conversation was carried on with the greatest difficulty .
29 They may only be carried on with the local authority 's consent , and
30 That was the trouble with harbour-watching , there were so many inexplicable activities carried on at a stately pace and with the deliberation of a choreographed performance .
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