Example sentences of "carried on the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1814 , Samuel Webb leased the mill to Stephen and Edward Blackwell , who carried on the tradition of cloth making . |
| 2 | Torturers were either trained policemen or soldiers , or they were special commando units , or they were trained in USA or Panama , or they simply carried on the tradition of civilian torture . |
| 3 | Some of the structures simply ended , hanging in space ; others terminated in smaller versions of the main station , like a cluster of eggs carried on the leg of an insect ; still others , following their skewed paths , met and became united with each other , producing strange hybrids . |
| 4 | The people demonstrated their spirit when the whole country rose up , carried on the tide of revolution in Eastern Europe , and literally fought tooth and nail against their oppressors . |
| 5 | Dan Wagoner 's own new work , first staged in Plymouth in October , has a jokey title , Turtles All The Way Down , and has something to do with a Bertrand Russell lecture when it was suggested that the Earth is not round but carried on the back of a giant tortoise which stands on turtles all the way down . |
| 6 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |
| 7 | At Whitehall the petition was unloaded and carried on the shoulders of eight officers into the Commons . |
| 8 | A company owned and run by Mr and Mrs Bunch carried on the business of purchase and resale of bulk butter . |
| 9 | In Re A Company 's Application [ 1989 ] 3 WLR 265 the plaintiff company carried on the business of providing financial advice and was subject to the regulatory scheme imposed by FIMBRA pursuant to the provisions of the Financial Services Act 1986 . |
| 10 | But these are competent love songs , carried on the strength of the 23-year-old 's powerful and seductive vocals . |
| 11 | The other is a slim footbridge carried on the piers of what looks like a former railway viaduct . |