Example sentences of "to carry [adv prt] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | As for clothes , fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label . |
| 8 | It instructed IWC scientists to carry out a worldwide survey of population levels . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | * 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Teachers need not be afraid of explaining to pupils their reasons for wanting them to carry out a certain piece of investigatory work . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | to carry out a coherent approach to investigating fraud , |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was , therefore , necessary to carry out a complete validation check of the listing against the manual records kept by the Personnel Branch at Gatwick Airport . |
| 25 | If I signed a contract to carry out a complete refurbishment of the interior of your house I have an obligation to fulfil that contract . |
| 26 | Cheshire was able to collect enough data from Reading adolescents to carry out a quantitative analysis of the following : variation in the morphological structure of the third personal singular form of the verb ; a separate study of the verbs HAVE , DO and BE ; various aspects of the system of negation ; the relative pronoun system . |
| 27 | The Australian company plans to carry out a Hanson-style break-up of ARC America . |
| 28 | It is relatively easy nowadays with a minimum of statistical or computational knowledge to use the facilities of a statistical package for computer analysis ( such as the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences or Minitab ) to carry out a wide range of tests . |
| 29 | The solicitor gives advice and has the conduct of the business of the client from day to day and will retain a barrister to carry out a specific task in handling the client 's business . |
| 30 | A manager can order an employee to carry out a specific task . |