Example sentences of "was carry on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little wonder then that the Forest system was heartily detested by all classes of the king 's subjects , and that from the twelfth century onward a bitter and determined struggle was carried on between Crown and people for its abolition . |
| 2 | The profit-making activity of the sub-licensees was carried on outside Hong Kong but the grant of the sub-licences took place in Hong Kong where the taxpayer operated . |
| 3 | Whereupon Stoker , gifted with Dublin 's malice , wrote instead a novel — about a bloodsucking , ennobled gentleman whose business was carried on at night , in or around grand dramatic buildings . |
| 4 | His work on Linear B was carried on with flair by John Chadwick ( b.1920 ) . |
| 5 | A fruitless correspondence between Paton and Henderson was carried on throughout July 1931 . |
| 6 | Ogden 's craft was carried on by Christopher Caygill , who made brass-faced clocks with minute hands , and one of his apprentices , who married his master 's daughter , took over the business and made clocks with painted faces . |
| 7 | They ignored the prior consultations , the use of friendship between secretariat officials and local chairmen which ensured that the business of government was carried on in ways which often responded to local needs . |
| 8 | The game was carried on in silence . |
| 9 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |