Example sentences of "to carry [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is pretty difficult to carry on a conversation like that , let alone write a scientific paper .
2 The benefit of planning permission to carry on a business from premises is normally lost by a subsequent change of use of those premises .
3 In 1851 , which , with symbolic appropriateness , was the year in which a hungry urban population exceeded for the first time the population of the countryside , drainage-minded landlords up from the shires were able to carry away a wealth of interesting ideas from the Great Exhibition .
4 However , recent technological advances have made possible a robot which can be programmed to carry out a range of services on command .
5 When survey data are coded and punched for analysis by computer it is all too easy to ask the computer to carry out a range of cross-tabulations of one factor by another .
6 The money helps BCE to carry out a range of initiatives , including the provision of soft loans for new businesses , managed workshops for new businesses , low-cost premises for expanding businesses , training for ex-mineworkers and job shops .
7 As part of the 1993 Business Challenge , organised by the Industrial Society , schools teamed up with companies to carry out a range of special projects .
8 In respect of the Cossacks , Robertson was simply giving authorization to Eighth Army to carry out a course of action suggested by Eighth Army and " recommended by Macmillan " .
9 It is therefore impracticable to carry out a trial of a single homoeopathic remedy versus a single orthodox drug or placebo , although this approach has been tried .
10 This study confirms the need to carry out a follow-through of all persons arrested and not look simply at discrete ‘ moments ’ in the process .
11 As the National Curriculum is implemented , it will be possible to carry out a check of the curriculum of each school .
12 Apart from putting things up , you 're bound to carry out a variety of odd fixing and repair jobs around the house .
13 The PPL recently commissioned Gallup to carry out a survey of the benefits of recorded music .
14 In 1795 Parliament voted that King George III award Elkington £1,000 to carry out a survey of his achievements .
15 GOVERNMENT health watchdogs are to carry out a survey of women working in computer microchip factories amid fears they may suffer a higher risk of miscarriage .
16 A spate of fires in disconnected homes , culminating in the deaths of children in Sunderland , prompted Southwick Neighbourhood Action Project to carry out a survey of disconnections on an interwar estate of semi-detached houses recently modernised with gas fires , back boilers and central heating .
17 Chief officers have been asked to carry out a survey of people who would like to work reduced hours for less pay if it can be done without hitting the service to the public .
18 KPMG has been appointed by the European Commission to carry out a survey of venture capitalists in the European Community .
19 So when we actually got out there , we go out to work in some capacity or another , either to carry out a survey of the logistics or perhaps to sort out and look at the way in which one can set up an immunisation programme in a refugee camp .
20 Men 's toiletries producers Lynx have commissioned National Opinion Polls to carry out a survey on men 's attitudes to pressures of living and work .
21 The de Vitto report on the social charter action programme called for the commission to carry out a survey into legislation and practices that discriminated on the grounds of age and to take measures to guarantee equal treatment for elderly people .
22 The board also intends to carry out a survey into how the procedures are understood , and follow it up with a training and familiarisation programme .
23 The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale .
24 THE Government 's decision to levy value-added tax on domestic fuel and power has prompted ScottishPower to carry out a review over the next 12 months to determine the possible impact the tax will have on its 1.6 million domestic customers .
25 Under section 40(4) ( a ) a review can be postponed if it is net practicable to carry out a review at that time .
26 FCA of who had been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 1.32 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to carry out a review of its compliance procedures in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.09 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to warn clients of the extent to which they may be exposed to risk in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.32 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 , when the firm gave advice to clients such that , if acted upon , it would result in commission being received , it failed to inform those clients of that position in writing in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.47 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to issue engagement letters in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.60 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to ensure that it had adequate records in accordance with the terms of the Regulation was reprimanded , fined £500 and ordered to pay £250 by way of costs .
27 The association contracted the Fluid Processes Group to carry out a review of the nature , origins , occurrences and hazards of methane in the context of the construction industry in the United Kingdom .
28 In execution of that policy it was proposed that a circular would be issued to all local authorities asking them to carry out a review of the curriculum in their areas in consultation with their schools and to report the results within about twelve months .
29 He established territory over a cave roof in the middle of the tank and proceeded to carry out a reign of terror that had the other residents hugging the ends of the tank in various stages of nervous collapse .
30 Even in the towns , where officials were concentrated , the government had to rely right into the nineteenth century on reluctant elected townsmen to carry out a host of fiscal , economic , and general administrative functions .
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