Example sentences of "be carry [adv prt] the [noun sg] 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 | Younger members of the Denning family are carrying on the tradition of working at Sharpness docks . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But if we convert our traders into stock-jobbers , who is to carry on the commerce of the kingdom ? |
| 7 | If a person is to carry out the AL of maintaining a safe environment , many of the recognised biological systems are involved . |
| 8 | 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 " . |