Example sentences of "carrying [adv prt] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is carrying on a long tradition of Eastern Centre get-togethers for E H Os , we 've done residential courses every two years for I do n't know how many years . |
| 2 | For the last few days she had seen them , not as her parents but as two hating individuals carrying on a private war behind screens . |
| 3 | Further , even smaller corporates may be treated as non-private under Rule 5 — 5(4) where they : ( a ) are carrying on a main business which is not investment business ; ( b ) enter into a futures transaction as an integral part of its main business ; ( c ) have , in the firm 's reasonable belief , sufficient experience and understanding to waive protections provided for private customers ; and ( d ) have received a clear warning of the protections under the regulatory system which they would lose , including a statement of its rights to request to be treated as a private customer . |
| 4 | More significant for domestic purposes is s10(4) ( b ) and ( c ) which give the retailer a defence provided : ( i ) that he supplied the goods , offered or agreed to supply them or , as the case may be , exposed or possessed them for supply in the course of carrying on a retail business ; and ( ii ) that , at the time he supplied the goods or offered or agreed to supply them or exposed or possessed them for supply , he neither knew nor had reasonable grounds for believing that the goods failed to comply with the general safety requirement ; or ( c ) that the terms on which he supplied the goods or agreed or offered to supply them or , in the case of goods which he exposed or possessed for supply , the terms on which he intended to supply them ( i ) indicated that the goods were not supplied or to be supplied as new goods ; and ( ii ) provided for , or contemplated , the acquisition of an interest in the goods by the persons supplied or to be supplied . |
| 5 | ‘ 4(1) The institution conducts , or , in the case of an institution which is not yet carrying on a deposit-taking business , will conduct its business in a prudent manner . |
| 6 | In London the winners held their celebration dinner at the Hotel Great Central , Marylebone , where Chapman praised the Town for carrying off a major prize while still relatively young ( the club was founded in 1908 ) . |
| 7 | Plants are normally under some form of stress — heat or light stress are two of many forms — but nevertheless plants are generally healthy , from which we may conclude that nature is continually carrying out a delicate balancing act among the contributing reactions making up the complete photosynthetic ‘ machinery ’ . |
| 8 | Mr Hellyer was capable of carrying out a simple crime ; he was practically incapable of taking sensible steps to avoid arrest afterwards . |
| 9 | I know that the National Audit Office has been carrying out a value-for-money study of NRA coast protection schemes . |
| 10 | Within hours of the killings Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir had accused Palestinians of provoking the police into the shootings by carrying out a planned attack on Jewish worshippers in an attempt to divert world attention from the Gulf crisis . |
| 11 | First , neither the development of the ‘ visible hand ’ in coordinating ‘ vertical ’ flows from the extraction of raw materials through to final sales , nor the rise of the diversified corporation carrying out a planned allocation of resources between different product divisions , abolishes competition between capitalist enterprises . |
| 12 | It was not suggested that either the solicitors , who were simply carrying out a straightforward conveyancing transaction , or Mrs G herself , had any criminal or quasi-criminal intent or were aware of the suspected intent of the alleged drug trafficker . |
| 13 | Schools thus slipped into the danger of carrying out a new range of management tasks without the benefit of fresh definitions . |
| 14 | MAGISTRATES granted bail yesterday to a 19-year-old man accused of carrying out a smash-and-grab raid at an Essex jewellers . |
| 15 | SECURITY forces were this afternoon carrying out a major search operation in the Bogside area of Londonderry . |
| 16 | For a while she became the priestess of her own cult of Assassins , carrying out a deadly ceremony which appeared suave and innocuous , but was not . |
| 17 | ‘ And it will look more as if you 're carrying out a professional duty . ’ |
| 18 | The previous section has brought to light some of the difficulties of carrying out a radical approach to the development of information systems in many organisations . |
| 19 | In a statement on Nov. 19 the Comoran Union for Progress ( Udzima ) announced that it was withdrawing support from its leader , President Said Mohammed Djohar , and going into opposition ; the statement accused Djohar of carrying out a political witch-hunt following an attempted coup and subsequent Cabinet reshuffle in August [ see p. 38378 ] . |
| 20 | At Warwick University ( England ) , doctors Steve Van Toller and George Dodd have been carrying out a great deal of research in recent years into the relationship between smell and emotion . |
| 21 | Thames Water Authority are in the process of carrying out a general refurbishment programme at the plant . |
| 22 | The Division has worked with one school in particular , Belfield Community School , Rochdale , in carrying out a five-year project designed to increase PITR . |
| 23 | Other duties , of course , could also be pretty tedious , especially when you were stuck carrying out a rotten job against your own sympathies , your loyalties divided . |
| 24 | The Gramophone Company 's record-producer Fred Gaisberg had the idea of carrying out a recording session ‘ supervised ’ by Sir Edward Elgar , then lying upon his deathbed in Worcestershire . |
| 25 | Researchers at Gloucesters public health laboratories have been carrying out a long term study into more than three hundred cases of meningitis . |
| 26 | I eventually exercised the leg , particularly carrying out a stretching routine and also used ice packs . |
| 27 | If we were carrying out a similar survey in the future , recording conversations , would you be willing to take part ? |
| 28 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 29 | In May 1978 the County Council began carrying out a technical feasibility study on a section of state forest in the Boggeragh Mountains between Rylane and Nadd , in the townland of Annagannihy . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , forensic experts have been carrying out a thorough examination of the lonely cottage where Jonathan and Tania had met shortly before she disappeared . |