Example sentences of "carried on the [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the structures simply ended , hanging in space ; others terminated in smaller versions of the main station , like a cluster of eggs carried on the leg of an insect ; still others , following their skewed paths , met and became united with each other , producing strange hybrids . |
| 2 | Dan Wagoner 's own new work , first staged in Plymouth in October , has a jokey title , Turtles All The Way Down , and has something to do with a Bertrand Russell lecture when it was suggested that the Earth is not round but carried on the back of a giant tortoise which stands on turtles all the way down . |
| 3 | When convocation met in December 1373 even the prelates were alienated from the crown , or at least from Gaunt and those who carried on the government in the king 's name : the attempt to levy an unprecedented tax of £50,000 in 1371 had aroused great resentment , aggravated in the next year when , in an effort to speed its collection , all the bishops of the southern province had their temporalities seized . |
| 4 | His widow Mary Ann carried on the business with the assistance of her late husband 's associates , including Pierre André , who with John Chapman began a large-scale map of Essex ‘ for Mrs. Rocque ’ . |
| 5 | But these are competent love songs , carried on the strength of the 23-year-old 's powerful and seductive vocals . |