Example sentences of "to carry [adv] its [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A household name in the world of aviation spares is looking for a new owner to carry on its traditions .
2 Machines , computers , materials of all kinds , and labour all have to be blended together to enable the production system to carry out its operations in a cost-effective way .
3 The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester refused to provide his police authority with information concerning the policing of an industrial dispute on the ground that the authority did not need the information in order to carry out its functions .
4 Such a policy makes sense only if the administration really is prepared to carry out its threats , and even to follow them up with worse .
5 DELTA Air Lines has issued a counter-claim against a suit brought by Pan American alleging it refused to carry out its obligations to fund a reorganisation of Pan Am .
6 The BDDA has always had a weak link in that it never could command the necessary influential backing , financially and in personnel , to carry out its objects .
7 In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties .
8 I can certainly give my hon. Friend an assurance that , were the investigations by the Serious Fraud Office to produce evidence of fraud that would have to be considered by those involved in criminal prosecutions of if there were claims that the Occupational Pensions Board had been negligent or in any other way culpable of failure to carry out its duties as imposed by the law , those matters would be considered with great care .
9 Answer guide : Needs identified in the text are the need for information to enable management to carry out its duties and responsibilities in terms of stewardship , planning , control and decision making .
10 Yet to the end of the period the central government expressed intense frustration at its inability to carry out its policies .
11 ‘ On the whole this document would enable the executive power to carry out its reforms , ’ Mr Yegor Gaidar , First Deputy Prime Minister , told deputies .
12 The modern modification of representative democracy is therefore to see the public as being allowed to choose from time to time between two or more broad political programmes , and being able to reject a party that has failed to carry out its promises .
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