Example sentences of "to carry [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 6 | 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 … . |
| 7 | If you do not , call in an architect or surveyor to do the design work for you , and a local builder to carry out the actual construction . |
| 8 | Volunteers should be able to carry out the minimal work involved , though some dioceses seem curiously reluctant to accept offers of help of this kind . |
| 9 | He had called in a local firm of builders to carry out the essential brickwork , plastering and re-tiling on the roof ; after that , he took a hand in the redecoration personally , splashing on new paint and putting up wallpaper . |
| 10 | It expected that Scott would produce a building to vie with his great designs abroad and concluded with the hope that ‘ the recent discussions in which so much misapprehension has been exhibited will not shake your determination to carry out the selected design ’ . |
| 11 | It was essential to get as much flying time as possible , for John was off to Wildenrath the following day and it would have been almost impossible to arrange another date to carry out the all-important conversion . |
| 12 | You 're being asked erm you told us you rang up the Assistant Chief Constable who gave you the authority to carry out the armed operation . |
| 13 | It might be possible to use an annual grant of £300 to carry out the necessary paintwork . |
| 14 | It might be possible to use an annual grant of £300 to carry out the necessary paintwork . |
| 15 | The long period of housing the stock meant that the farmer was able to carry out the necessary work in the mornings and evenings . |
| 16 | Stand-by or supply teachers are needed if community language teachers are to be released to carry out the necessary development work . |
| 17 | He told the King that he would prefer MacDonald to remain in office in order to carry out the necessary programme of economies ; but that if he failed to carry enough of his colleagues with him , then the best alternative would be for MacDonald to head a National Government containing members of all three parties . |
| 18 | In 1985 there were 791 cataloguers , two administrators and 169 photographers ; in order to carry out the current drive the number of employees has been set at 4,463 . |
| 19 | She was able to carry out the simple reward programme which worked very well and then progressed to rewarding Luke for passing a motion in the lavatory . |
| 20 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 21 | For this reason , it is not always possible to carry out the preferred size or type of investigation until certain data or resources become available . |
| 22 | We have the staff needed to carry out the required training . |
| 23 | The manager may take on that role but the new volunteers may find that they lack support as the manager is likely to be too busy with other duties to carry out the in-bureau training task thoroughly . |
| 24 | Whatever the shortcomings of the assumptions made about cause and effect in the relationship between man and the environment ( and man with man ) the model shows how the use of a computer to carry out the vast number of calculations necessary to realize the model can allow the consideration of a very complex situation on lines not previously possible . |
| 25 | The design we are going to talk about is a DIY design in that , apart from a 555 timer and 4001 NOR gate chip , discretes are used to carry out the various circuit operations and the system is capable of being modified for those who like a starting point and then like to experiment . |
| 26 | It explains how to introduce new users and how to carry out the day-to-day checking of the operation of the LIFESPAN system to detect discrepancies and deficiencies . |
| 27 | The employer , or the architect on his behalf , for certain sections of a contract may provide a list , in or attached to the contract bills , of at least three sub-contractors from which the builder must select one able and willing to carry out the respective work . |
| 28 | It is essentially a melodic instrument and , though holding-notes in music of light calibre are charming in effect ( especially from or thereabouts with the exception — save in the hands of first-class players — of C ) it can not efface itself sufficiently to carry out the menial task of ‘ filling in notes of the harmony ’ in block writing . |
| 29 | Within each specialised task there were some miners more willing and more able than others to carry out the specialised work . |
| 30 | Mrs Howard said : ‘ Unless we are given a lot more resources we will not be able to carry out the weekly monitoring required . |