Example sentences of "[noun sg] of carrying [art] " in BNC.

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1 Instead of carrying the vector a round the closed path NABN , the being could compare the result of carrying a to B along one path NAB with the result for the direct path NB .
2 So smile , be charming , and resist the temptation to elbow small children off the path to their doom for the crime of carrying a ghetto-blaster up the hill .
3 One got the impression that Mr Callaghan felt that he had to put on one side the normal practice of consulting only a small group of inner ministers on economic issues , and had to carry all the colleagues , all twenty-two , if he was to have a hope of carrying the party in the country clearly out of the crisis .
4 Allen , ankle-deep in water and with no hope of carrying the ball forward , chalked up his 14th of the season when he unleashed a crashing 25-yard volley which gave goalkeeper Graziani no chance .
5 I hope somewhere down the line I 'll have the opportunity of carrying the sack again for him .
6 In 1236 he had both the honour of carrying the sceptre at the queen 's coronation , and the disgrace of imprisonment through a court cabal .
7 Erm so really and truly i i you know with what we 'd got it was sort of carrying the business on in a very sort of low way and instead of going round collecting the work it was all done through the post .
8 As third man in the party I was given the job of carrying the large FRCC guidebook of those days .
9 They also have the job of carrying the water home in pails from a pipe used by the whole village .
10 I WISH to warn people about the danger of carrying the new £10 note around this Christmas .
11 That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases .
12 The lacinia is commonly spined or toothed on its inner border and when fused with the subgalea it has the appearance of carrying the galea .
13 There even seems to have been some notion of carrying the plateway along as far as Husbands Bosworth .
14 On 13 July 1919 the first two-way crossing of the Atlantic was completed by the Beardmore-built R34 , which made the flight to Minneola in the USA in spite of carrying the world 's first airborne stowaway .
15 Because of her age , she had a one in 180 chance of carrying a baby with Down 's , yet she was not unusual in deciding against having an amniocentesis .
16 Is it possible you do n't know that Berenice has had three miscarriages and that with every one her chance of carrying a child to term diminishes ? ’
17 He developed the habit of carrying a book of poetry in his pocket , which he might open at any time for a swig of the sublime .
18 But whatever the irregularity of carrying an army rifle about , he was certainly entitled to wear the uniform .
19 It was a cold night and I had no overcoat but I was soon sweating with the effort of carrying the suitcase .
20 Half the women whose age — 36 plus — puts them at relatively high risk of carrying a Down 's syndrome child , also refuse amniocentesis .
21 Only one of the statutes accords the title of gentleman to landowners of this magnitude , yet it is clear that a great many , if not most of them , laid claim to the style even at the risk of carrying a bigger sail than they could bear .
22 I prefer the flexibility and independence of backpacking with a tent , but with that freedom comes the penalty of carrying the extra weight .
23 He 'd driven her directly to her hotel so she could change her clothes and she 'd elected to wear lightweight cream cotton jeans topped by a matching sleeveless cotton stretch top , taking the precaution of carrying a jacket when Rune warned her that the breeze from the Baltic could be stiff despite the increasing warmth of the day .
24 A gardener 's belt , with clasps and pouches for small tools is a practical way of carrying the tools around .
25 ‘ You had no doubt of carrying the day , I collect ? ’
26 It broke Tony Cottee … and the Everton striker reveals for the first time the enormous cost of carrying the tag of Britain 's costliest player .
27 She was now burdened with the unpleasant task of carrying the Cell .
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