Example sentences of "be carry [adv prt] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You leapt for the cleaner banks and I allowed myself to be carried on by the filth of deceit , of shame , and of a guilt that even now I can not put into public or private words .
2 This may seem self-evident , but it is not unknown for people to be carried along by the atmosphere of an auction , or the sales patter of a dealer .
3 After an aircraft type has been established in service for some years , a searching ‘ mid-life ’ review should be carried out by the manufacturer to the satisfaction of the certification authority when all aspects of the aircraft 's structural performance should be studied in the light of fleet service experience and current design knowledge .
4 Mistakes between positive and neutral fusing are critical and could be fatal , which is why it is vital that work on the electrical circuits should only be carried out by the Electricity Board or by an NICEIC ( National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting ) registered contractor .
5 The other , much more recent development , has been to pay serious attention to modelling how cognitive functions might be carried out by the brain .
6 Self-assessment methods are useful , here , in that they can be carried out by the individual without the need of a tutor or teacher .
7 The second phase would be carried out by the dispersal of nurses and psychologists into general practice surgeries and day hospitals .
8 Certification of safety or quality need not be carried out by the government .
9 Co-ordination of local plans was to be carried out by the Ministry of Town and Country Planning , while development rights in land were nationalised .
10 The quantification of the amount they are entitled to retain must be carried out by the Chancery master and can not be referred by him to a taxing master .
11 Typically this task will be carried out by the company 's buying department .
12 All calculations can be carried out by the computer , e.g. discounts , VAT , etc .
13 ‘ The audit function should be carried out by the Court of Auditors in a similar way to that adopted by the principal auditor of a multinational group of companies which has a number of foreign subsidiary companies .
14 Programmed learning can be carried out by the user of a variety of media — books , automatic projection of slides , or by means of a computer-aided instruction ( CAI ) .
15 Then the development of broad-scale corporate dreams must be carried out by the board .
16 In this letter Thomas suggested that the foundations and building work should be carried out by the Canal Company and estimated that the cost would be £12,000 .
17 The audit may be carried out by the organization 's own staff or by external consultants .
18 Ideally this should be carried out by the timber supplier ( treated wood is described as ‘ Tanalised ’ or ‘ Celcured ’ by timber merchants and other stockists ) to ensure thorough and deep penetration of the wood .
19 In the words of Lord Greene in Davies v Collins [ 1945 ] 1 All ER 247 : Whether or not in any given contract performance can properly be carried out by the employment of a sub-contractor , must depend on the proper inference to be drawn from the contract itself , the subject matter of it and other material surrounding circumstances .
20 AN INQUIRY into the rates credit card companies charge shops is to be carried out by the Office of Fair Trading .
21 In order to determine the cost of services received by the action sample , it was decided to use mainly costs already calculated in previously published research , but where a service appeared to have special local features , an examination of that service would be carried out by the research team .
22 They went on to suggest that where complex insider activities are being carried out in a sub-language designed to exclude the uninformed , the best ethnography would probably be carried out by the insider/ethnographer .
23 In such circumstances , the lease and its counterpart can be exchanged immediately they have been settled by the parties ' advisers , and any works to be carried out by the tenant can be dealt with in a licence for alterations .
24 The bulk of the technical work involved in the project will be carried out by the Motor Industry Research Association , Southampton University 's Institute of Sound and Vibration Research and Oxford University .
25 Note that LIFESPAN can usually store and retrieve software for foreign computer systems , though transfers to and from the user work space that LIFESPAN can address have to be carried out by the LIFESPAN user .
26 The only functions that necessarily have to be carried out by the Bank of England are lender of last resort facilities — even supervision could be carried out by a self regulatory organisation ( SRO — see Chapter 12 ) for the banking system .
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