Example sentences of "carry on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No conscious effort is required , and it is sometimes possible to carry on a non-relevant activity , e.g. holding a conversation , whilst performing the activity . |
| 2 | In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises . |
| 3 | Institutions authorised by the Bank of England to carry on a deposit-taking business in this country are required to make contributions to the Deposit Protection Fund as levied from time to time by the Deposit Protection Board . |
| 4 | She did not want to carry on a lengthy conversation with this garrulous dumb woman ; she wanted to go to bed and hug Edward Bear . |
| 5 | The tenant will not wish to restrict himself to too narrow a use , for while this might be satisfactory in the short term , if the lease is for 25 years much can happen to the tenant 's business , eg expansion or contraction resulting in the necessity for the tenant to assign or sublet the premises , in which case the assignee or subtenant may wish to carry on a different use . |
| 6 | By the early nineteenth century three ‘ large carrying establishments ’ had made their headquarters here , of which Sutton & Co. carried on a great trade with Hull and Gainsborough , Liverpool and Manchester , the Cheshire salt works and the Potteries , and with Birmingham , Dudley and the Black Country . |
| 7 | In the intervals between his military activities Karadjordje had carried on a successful business as a livestock trader , selling pigs across the border into Austria , and he had acquired a modest level of prosperity . |
| 8 | The coffin was carried on a horse-drawn cart because it was a long time before a motor hearse became available . |
| 9 | A vote was taken on this and was carried on a decisive majority . |
| 10 | Managing Director Stuart Hyslop said the posters with slogans on issues including the poll tax , crime , health and employment are carried on a commercial cash basis and no other party has approached the company to book space . |
| 11 | Oblivious to her injuries , Thomas Duke would have carried his daughter back to their cottage in his arms , though it is conceivable that she was carried on an old door or something . |
| 12 | But the compensations for being unable to read or carry on a casual conversation are overwhelming . |
| 13 | He suggests a reason for this — the power of habit : " People can carry on a great tradition while proposing a philosophy which denies its premises . |
| 14 | They can carry on a normal life like going to school or work and having fun with their family and friends , but they will be infectious to other people for the rest of their lives . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , sounds can carry on a quiet evening and you do n't want your father asking why you were acting daft . |
| 16 | A delegation travelled to Lisbon to present their case ; FLEC-Renewal president José Tiburcio Luemba called on Portugal to revise the agreements which had brought about the independence of Angola in 1975 , and said that his movement would carry on an armed struggle until independence for Cabinda had been achieved . |
| 17 | Yet , as Samuel warns : ‘ even if nation is expelled from the class-room , it will still carry on an underground existence in the corridors and playground and an altogether more uninhibited one on television and the football terraces . |
| 18 | This is carrying on a long tradition of Eastern Centre get-togethers for E H Os , we 've done residential courses every two years for I do n't know how many years . |
| 19 | For the last few days she had seen them , not as her parents but as two hating individuals carrying on a private war behind screens . |
| 20 | Further , even smaller corporates may be treated as non-private under Rule 5 — 5(4) where they : ( a ) are carrying on a main business which is not investment business ; ( b ) enter into a futures transaction as an integral part of its main business ; ( c ) have , in the firm 's reasonable belief , sufficient experience and understanding to waive protections provided for private customers ; and ( d ) have received a clear warning of the protections under the regulatory system which they would lose , including a statement of its rights to request to be treated as a private customer . |
| 21 | More significant for domestic purposes is s10(4) ( b ) and ( c ) which give the retailer a defence provided : ( i ) that he supplied the goods , offered or agreed to supply them or , as the case may be , exposed or possessed them for supply in the course of carrying on a retail business ; and ( ii ) that , at the time he supplied the goods or offered or agreed to supply them or exposed or possessed them for supply , he neither knew nor had reasonable grounds for believing that the goods failed to comply with the general safety requirement ; or ( c ) that the terms on which he supplied the goods or agreed or offered to supply them or , in the case of goods which he exposed or possessed for supply , the terms on which he intended to supply them ( i ) indicated that the goods were not supplied or to be supplied as new goods ; and ( ii ) provided for , or contemplated , the acquisition of an interest in the goods by the persons supplied or to be supplied . |
| 22 | ‘ 4(1) The institution conducts , or , in the case of an institution which is not yet carrying on a deposit-taking business , will conduct its business in a prudent manner . |
| 23 | under sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Financial Services Act 1986 against a firm of solicitors who acted for a person carrying on an unauthorised investment business . |
| 24 | Probably publicans were just carrying on an old tradition of involvement in popular sports . |
| 25 | The younger John claimed that Langton had been carrying on an adulterous relationship with his stepmother Joan . |
| 26 | If this is true ( and it is not so far-fetched : if you carry on an intelligent argument with your readers in the columns of a newspaper , you can not expect them to believe that the responsibilities of self-government are beyond them ) , then it would seem a good example of propaganda having the opposite effect to that intended . |
| 27 | Certain infallible rules have been established , and we carry on an unvarying routine in which we apply the same theory to the same cases . ’ |
| 28 | For calorie counters , 1,500 to 2,000 calories per day should be enough to maintain correct weight and carry on an active life . |
| 29 | Is this equipment carried on a normal fire tender ? |
| 30 | I did go for one short walk in the cool overcast , just along the beach to the south end of the island and back , then I stayed in and watched some more television when the rain came on , carried on a low wind , glummuttering against the window . |