Example sentences of "[noun pl] carry [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Drains to carry the dirty water underground to the main sewer , septic tank or cesspool .
2 In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal .
3 While one argument against expecting schools to carry an additional load of knowledge is that such knowledge , particularly in the vocational field , rapidly becomes out of date , two arguments from the other side have some lasting weight .
4 Elaine , his wife , was much taller than him , with shoulder-length blonde hair and long legs carrying a well-rounded body .
5 Fanatics carry a huge ball and chain , a weapon so large that it would be impossible for a Goblin to pick up in normal circumstances , but the Fanatic 's strength is boosted by fungus beer enabling him to swing the heavy ball round and round .
6 One of the motorcade cars carrying the only TV crew due to film their arrival broke down .
7 For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ?
8 And remember , all complete rewires carry a 10 year guarantee .
9 Moreover it is important to identify genetically suitable animals for reintroduction from zoos , where analysis can reveal which animals carry the under-represented founder oryx 's genes and would therefore be good candidates .
10 The trunk of the lights should have been marginally taller , the spread of their branches carrying the individual bulbs broader .
11 Usually , the " L " shapes carry a simple guilloche decoration , although at Box this is replaced by residual panels ( if this is how the three small squares which connect each octagon are best described ) containing various geometrical devices , and at North Hill the " L " shapes also carry a stencilled " L " shaped line .
12 At the moment there is vigorous theoretical argument among people who study animal signals , with some taking the extreme position that signals carry no accurate information about the state of the signaller and others arguing that the signals are extremely reliable .
13 As before , the cars carry a full specification ABS , airbags , air conditioning , power operated leather seats et al .
14 In spite of the benefits they bring , cars carry an environmental cost .
15 ‘ I suppose so , ’ she admitted reluctantly , eyes carrying a teasing glint as she lifted them to his .
16 In subjects carrying the various gene combinations estimated enzyme activity showed a remarkably good correlation with previously determined measures of biochemical severity ( diagnostic phenylalanine concentrations , phenylalanine tolerance during treatment , and response to a standard protein load ) .
17 Like Nos. 1–16 , these cars carried a narrow fare table board in the left hand bulkhead window position and some cars had a hinged opening light in the top of the right hand bulkhead window .
18 Mud channels carried the precious spring water through the streets to walled gardens and orchards .
19 These piers carried an intermediate concrete floor about one foot thick on which was a layer of broken and pounded tufa and ceramic .
20 His first seventeen designs carried the AIR– designation but in 1937 the eighteenth became the Ya–18 and during the Second World War the now well known Yak-prefix came into being .
21 Elsewhere , near the King 's Head , the discovery of flue-tiles carries a similar interpretation .
22 Recently Kelly explained how her parents carry a special bleeper which would go off when a suitable transplant donor was found .
23 Torches were already flaring on the castle walls when the first wagons carrying the dismantled mangonels rumbled across the drawbridge .
24 A convoy of four low-loaders carrying the dismantled D furnace and accompanied by a police escort set out from Brymbo for the docks yesterday .
25 The four RJ-45 connections can be configured so that the unused wires carry an additional four 10BaseT connections by using the MiLAN MIL 4084 Expansion Module or by punching down the extra lines .
26 In that event , the conviction will be for the offence of causing grievous bodily harm , but both offences carry the same maximum punishment — life imprisonment .
27 The track , a cover of The Rolling Stones ' ‘ Honky Tonk Woman ’ featuring the vocals of Spider Stacey , is issued through WEA on May 11. 12″ formats are backed with two previously unreleased tracks ‘ Curse Of Love ’ and ‘ Infinity ’ , while CDs carry a rare '85 B-side , ‘ The Parting Glass ’ .
28 In her study of 61 white mothers conducted in London in 1983–4 , Wilson ( 1987 ) found that none relied upon their children 's grandparents to carry the main burden of child care while they themselves went out to work , but most regarded grandmothers as support which they could use on a more casual basis for babysitting , and as help in emergencies .
29 The woman turned , meeting Karr 's eyes briefly , her own eyes wide , her whole body tensed as if to meet some other threat , then she turned away , a faint shudder passing through her , letting her co-workers carry the three men off .
30 Moreover , in cases where single stranded DNA is desired from PCR TM II , the host cells must be infected by a helper phage and the yield of a single stranded DNA preparation is much lower than that from filamentous bacteriophage vectors carrying the same segment of foreign DNA ( 4 ) .
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