Example sentences of "carry [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | carried skyward by the warm thermals |
| 2 | It needs to be emphasised that in marking intonation , only stressed syllables are marked ; this implies that intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit and that the pitch of unstressed syllables is either predictable from that of stressed syllables or is of so little importance that it is not worth marking . |
| 3 | It is possible to argue against this view : in Chapters 10 and 11 , word stress was presented as something quite independent of intonation , and subsequently ( p. 157 ) it was said that ‘ intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit ’ . |
| 4 | So when we listen to music we should allow ourselves to be carried away into the musical paradise . |
| 5 | I for one did not get carried away with the Triple Crown hype after the ‘ splendour ’ of the victory over Wales ( for which your publication was equally responsible ) . |
| 6 | The British traveller and journalist , Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace , believed Alexander " had inherited from his father a strong dislike to sentimentalism and rhetoric of all kinds " and that " This dislike , joined to a goodly portion of sober common-sense , a limited confidence in his own judgment , and a consciousness of enormous responsibility , prevented him from being carried away by the prevailing excitement " with which his reign began . |
| 7 | It 's easy to get carried away by the many tools at your disposal so beware of using them just because they 're there . |
| 8 | Under duress from external events , she practised collective Cabinet government in something approaching the traditional form , though David Howell , at that time Secretary of State for Transport , cautions against being carried away by the collective theme : |
| 9 | We can get carried away by the sheer attractiveness of the deal or temptation and overlook that priority . |
| 10 | You need to pace yourself , so that you do not get carried away by the never-ending tasks that could fill your day with frenetic activity . |
| 11 | He 's unlikely to ever score a more crucial point , but there 's no danger of him being carried away in the general euphoria . |
| 12 | Up to the creation of the National Health Service in 1946 responsibility for the mentally ill and subnormal was carried largely by the local authorities , which ran hospitals and institutions for the mentally ill , and organized some care and supervision in the community for the mentally subnormal . |
| 13 | Here , with no one to meet them , he had to be carried ashore through the icy sea by the captain , more dead from seasickness than alive , to make his wretched way to Glamis , Dundee and — 100 miles [ 160 km ] to the south of Peterhead — Perth , still held by Mar 's troops . |
| 14 | Selection interviews are generally carried now in the early summer to permit research to start in autumn ( freeing the staff of the SOED 's Research and Intelligence Unit to concentrate on identifying and preparing next year 's round of research priorities … ) . |
| 15 | The child 's face remained frozen at the window and was slowly carried sideways down the wooden platform . |
| 16 | The arms carry spines ; in euryalid genera on the ventral part of the arm , while in the ophiurids they are carried laterally on the lateral arm plates . |
| 17 | By July 1916 the contractors , Dawes and Bowler , reported that the building was ready for occupation and with the help of members of the Bedford Volunteer Red Cross Detachment , the patients were carried across to the new infirmary . |
| 18 | Carried inland on the southern breeze ) |
| 19 | Every night the cash was carried upstairs to the other safe . |
| 20 | This helps to explain why they do not publish consolidated opening statements : ‘ cost of the services of the organization ’ adds nothing to the fund operating statements ; the measure of performance has no meaning ; and , of course , there are no balances included to be carried forward to the new year which are not included in the balance sheet . |
| 21 | We should add by way of completeness that the provisions of sections 16 and 12 of the Act of 1873 have been carried forward to the modern day in more or less identical language , mutatis mutandis , to sections 18(3) and 34(1) of the Supreme Court of Judicature ( Consolidation ) Act 1925 and then , in more cursory language , to sections 10(3) ( b ) and 44(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 22 | Balance c/f — Amounts which are carried forward to the next day 's tabular ledger . |
| 23 | So therefore you 'd have no liability but you 'd have unused capital allowances to be carried forward to the next year . |
| 24 | The agreement binds the industry and is carried forward into the new agreement . |
| 25 | Some of these influences carried forward into the first fortnight of the campaign , though they faded towards the end . |
| 26 | This definition was not carried forward into the later Acts , although both the Act of 1979 and the current Act did reproduce some of the provisions regarding depositors which were contained in the Act of 1963 . |
| 27 | This work is carried forward in the present project . |
| 28 | This mode is carried forward from the 1954 Convention , and it is expressly provided that ‘ if exceptional circumstances so require ’ diplomatic channels may be used for the same purpose . |
| 29 | Filled with a cream 's ‘ key ’ ingredients , they carry then into the top layers . |
| 30 | During those same years J. W. B. Douglas was carrying forward into the secondary-school stage his massive study of a sample of 5,000 children born in 1946 . |