Example sentences of "carry on [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hewlett carried on a great trade , producing many components for the network of tramroads that were then being developed in the Forest . |