Example sentences of "to carry [adv prt] [art] [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 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 7 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 8 | Plans to build hospitals in particular places , or schools , appeared on the agenda because committee chairmen had canvassed opinion and had advised the secretariats in Tripoli : they went through smoothly enough , suggesting that the occasional displeasing reverse was more the result of failure to plan and to prepare the ground in advance , to carry on the ordinary business of politics , than a result of failure in some mystical process , such as interpreting the general will by introspection . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 11 | We held it was the duty of revolutionary Socialists to denounce both imperialist peace and imperialist war as the inevitable consequences of Capitalism and , whichever came , to carry on the independent class struggle of the workers , directing it towards the conquest of Worker 's Power … . |
| 12 | There is only one Arsenal today , and I can not conceive another simply because no other club have players fitted to carry on the same ideas . ’ |
| 13 | He helps his twin brother to carry off a young peasant girl from among his tenantry , her husband having first been killed by being deliberately overworked in unhealthy conditions . |
| 14 | As for clothes , fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label . |
| 15 | It instructed IWC scientists to carry out a worldwide survey of population levels . |
| 16 | Until this is achieved it is impossible to carry out a useful evaluation of the many alternative treatments available for patients with the complex problem of extrahepatic bile duct stricture . |
| 17 | Besides her undoubted love for Prince Charles , her sense of duty and her deep desire to carry out a useful role in life were factors in her fateful decision . |
| 18 | The organization 's ship , the MV Greenpeace , was eventually able to carry out a limited monitoring of oil slicks , with Iranian scientists and military personnel on board . |
| 19 | This project unites a joint team of British and French economists and lawyers from the Universities of Sussex and Grenoble to review the existing evidence in a dispassionate collaborative manner to try to develop a common view and to carry out a limited number of new investigations in areas of particular sensitivity . |
| 20 | * South Korea and Russia are to carry out a joint survey to assess the damage caused by Soviet dumping of radioactive waste in the Sea of Japan . |
| 21 | The ministers also agreed to carry out a joint study of the rights of Mercosur countries , under national and international law , vis-à-vis those of foreign companies and investors , with a view to harmonising legislation in the run-up to the creation of the planned trading bloc . |
| 22 | We did , however , manage to carry out a certain amount of court observation and also to interview solicitors who dealt with some of the cases . |
| 23 | Therefore , it was possible for subjects to carry out a certain amount of integration of information even when they did not know the theme of the passage . |
| 24 | Teachers need not be afraid of explaining to pupils their reasons for wanting them to carry out a certain piece of investigatory work . |
| 25 | For example , detaining a child would be false imprisonment but for the fact that the law permits a teacher to carry out a reasonable punishment . |
| 26 | Finally , if you need a builder to carry out a substantial amount of work on your house after you have purchased it , it is worth considering taking out a BEC Insurance Guarantee for the building work : details in Appendix . |
| 27 | ‘ We would never have a Labour government able to carry out a Labour programme — even when that programme had won far more votes than any of the other parties . ’ |
| 28 | During the debate Roy Hattersley , the deputy leader , argued that it would be ‘ historic folly ’ for Labour to back proportional representation ; inevitable coalitions would mean that ‘ we would never again have a Labour government that was able to carry out a Labour programme ’ . |
| 29 | to carry out a coherent approach to investigating fraud , |
| 30 | To carry out a wholesale purge of the party apparatus , Mao appointed Chen as head of the Cultural Revolution Group , a kitchen cabinet of loyal disciples , including Mao 's wife Jiang Qing , that was to lead the assault on the party hierarchy . |