Example sentences of "be carry [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young may be carried on the snout of the mother if they are in distress ( or stillborn ) , a behaviour that is also sometimes extended to humans in distress . |
| 2 | The crew will be volunteers from the Midlands and a special headboard will be carried on the front of the locomotive , one of the Ffestiniog 's unique double engines . |
| 3 | R. Miller had decided to resign , because his father , who had in fact been carrying out the duties of Sergeant since his son had rejoined the army in 1941 , was now too old and wished to retire . |
| 4 | Younger members of the Denning family are carrying on the tradition of working at Sharpness docks . |
| 5 | If we are carrying out the valuation of a private company which intends to float in the foreseeable future it should be borne in mind that the flotation will make the shares marketable . |
| 6 | Passengers had perforce to ride , and goods were carried on the backs of packhorses or mules . |
| 7 | I cut it out of Cosmopolitan magazine : an article entitled ‘ Think Yourself Thin ’ , illustrated by a blonde woman in a bikini being carried on the arms of two grinning , solid young men . |
| 8 | Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’ |
| 9 | For there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel , and the hum and songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day ; and the merry jests and greetings sent down to those who were passing through the streets . |
| 10 | The governors stuck reasonably well to their instructions on this and other matters and , while they did not always understand the new societies in which they were serving , eighteenth-century attacks on their competence were certainly on some occasions political propaganda that colonists were naturally tempted to launch against men who were carrying out the policy of a distant monarch and government . |
| 11 | But if we convert our traders into stock-jobbers , who is to carry on the commerce of the kingdom ? |
| 12 | If a person is to carry out the AL of maintaining a safe environment , many of the recognised biological systems are involved . |
| 13 | Sometimes xerolas ( vegetables and/or fruits , often in the shape of a gigantic ball and strung on a pole which is carried on the shoulders of two men ) are carried in the procession . |
| 14 | Its most important innovations were the provision of an annual conference of delegates , elected by the membership , and a rule that the executive committee , similarly elected , " was to carry out the business of the BDDA in accordance with the decisions of the delegates " conference " . |
| 15 | Mr Major explained how he was carrying on the principles of his predecessor and pointed out that he was her seconder in the leadership ballot and regretted that she had not stayed on . |