Example sentences of "was carry [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 " [ The transfer in 1860 ] between the Goldsmiths ' Company and the Corporation was carried through with the most perfect agreement and accord . "
2 When I originally found the frame I thought how pretty it would look if the green of the surround was carried through to the mount and the colour of the picture .
3 The theme of the convention was carried through by every speaker and in every session .
4 Again the work was completed in Oxford , and was carried through by the leadership of a man who made no mistakes in seeking chemical collaboration or in letting matters drop for lack of it .
5 According to Curtin and Shields , Irish Base Metals literally occupied the area on which they found metal : ‘ Thus early prospecting was carried on outside the framework of the mining legislation and involved a tortious interference with the property and livelihood of local farmers .
6 However , if he is a currency speculator he may be found to be trading in currencies and as he resides in the United Kingdom it would be very difficult to show that the trade was carried on outside the United Kingdom .
7 The identification with the ‘ home town ’ ( furusato ) was carried on into the next , urban-born generation .
8 For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation .
9 Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier .
10 This hi-tech theme was carried on with the Starstream XII which featured a semi-acoustic Teardrop body , built in tuner , distortion , treble and bass boost , percussion and a hand operated wah-wah device .
11 All this conversation was carried on with the greatest difficulty .
12 Probably much of his success as a teacher sprang from this , for the young greatly enjoyed his moments of iconoclasm , even when it was carried on to the cricket field where he had no knowledge of and certainly no respect for the laws of the game , as a current Member of Parliament may remember .
13 The House of Commons did not itself govern , but government was carried on within the confines of its guidance and approval .
14 Their love affair was carried on against a background of nightly bombings , wartime tension , the advance of the German army on Paris .
15 Conversation was carried on against a background of ear-splitting barking .
16 Work was carried on around the lump in a fairly ordered pattern helping to keep everything in proportion .
17 I think it would be true to say that my two brothers and sister and I were products of the Anglican parochial system , at a time when almost all charitable work was carried on by the churches .
18 After Young 's death his work was carried on by the French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion ( 1790–1832 ) .
19 The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 .
20 It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals .
21 He was not involved in any way with the mining that was carried on in the surrounding area , but he was greatly affected by the frequent serious and often fatal accidents suffered by the miners through premature blasting explosions .
22 Bell had done original design work on a defunct prop-powered XP–59 and that designation was carried over to the new effort in an attempt to mask the true nature of the project .
23 Their style was exceptionally clear and one was carried along in the unfolding of an argument which seemed as majestically inevitable as the development of a Bach fugue .
24 Conference , these statistics have been proved in one small area of the United Kingdom , the results if the same exercise was carried out across the length and breadth of the country would be frightening .
25 The company notes that the relocation exercise was carried out without the help of an independent specialist relocation company which may have been able to ease staffs ' fears about moving to a new area and so possibly improve on the 50 per cent retention rate .
26 The work was carried out during the period 1980–1 and the existing building construction was found to be generally in good condition .
27 Field work was carried out during the spring breeding seasons of 1987–90 .
28 The Government 's being urged to stop developers bulldozing a site where vital intelligence work was carried out during the Second World War .
29 Extensive modernisation of peripheral equipment was carried out including the replacement of all the door operators and refurbishment of doors and door equipment .
30 This was carried out over a three-week period using a mixture of interviews and questionnaires covering a representative sample of persons from the CSSU and the departments .
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