Example sentences of "[was/were] carry [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louis XIV duly carried out the letter of the Treaty of Utrecht by forcing the self-styled James III to move into Lorraine , technically a separate province , 100 miles [ 160 km ] from Paris , but James II 's widow still resided at St Germain , a centre for Jacobite intrigue , from which messages were carried to England by French diplomatic couriers . |
| 2 | Six hundred thousand ducats were to be brought ashore at Saltash , while at Fowey the Spanish sailors themselves helped to unload two pinnaces of twenty thousand gold reals , which were carried to Place House before forwarding to London . |
| 3 | The Serbs fired two artillery shells as the helicopters landed and sporadic firing continued as the wounded were carried on board . |
| 4 | Witnesses said camping vans were carried down river ‘ like toys ’ - with people inside screaming for help . |
| 5 | In his London Shadows Godwin even finds a function for the voyeurs who made it fashionable to tour the slums ‘ and wonder at the peculiarities of that strange land ’ , because ‘ it was partly owing to these visits that some improvements were carried into effect ’ . |
| 6 | Nothing in the Report of Professor L. C. B. Gower on Review of Investor Protection ( 1984 ) ( Cmnd. 9125 ) , the recommendations of which were carried into effect by the Act of 1986 , elucidates why the distinction was made . |
| 7 | The dead were carried in wicker coffins from Keld along the corpse road , stops being made along the way for food and drink , and every so often there were great " coffin stones " at the side of the way where the pallbearers could rest the body ( one such stone still stands at the side of Ivelet Bridge ) . |
| 8 | Nor can there be much doubt that when they were in residence at Woodstock these supplies were called upon , and were carried in carts along the wide green track now called Dornford Lane . |
| 9 | The Cadillac ‘ La Espada ’ exhibited at Earls Court in 1955 had tail fins moulded out of its flanks while the exhaust pipes were carried in rocket motor nozzles . |
| 10 | Reports were carried by Agence-France Presse on May 1 of heavy fighting around Saa'da involving Moslem tribes opposed to unity , and by the UK newspaper the Independent on May 12 suggesting that Saudi Arabia was fomenting this resistance to hold up the unity process [ but see p. 37266 for official Saudi position welcoming unification ] . |
| 11 | One theory is that they were carried by ice sheets . |
| 12 | A similarly high proportion of cases ( 19 per cent. ) in which weapons were carried by defendants was found in the Scottish survey . |
| 13 | The case and quiver were carried by means of the bandoleer which is decorated with red and dark blue stroud , otter fur and small triangles of beadwork . |
| 14 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |
| 15 | The applied voltage was 5 V/cm and electrophoresis was carried at 22°C . |
| 16 | brought together into indissoluble union our Western theory of Darwin and that strange doctrine of metempsychosis which was carried to Japan with Buddhism … |
| 17 | Alhred 's power-base may have been in the lower Tyne , for the body of his son , Osred , was carried to Tynemouth to be buried in the monastery there . |
| 18 | Its status was even higher when it was carried to West Africa by Portuguese traders in 1522 and subsequently by Dutch and French ships . |
| 19 | The work was carried to completion by one of his leading research assistants , Martin Gilbert . |
| 20 | Ruza , who was carried to safety by newsmen , may lose her arm . |
| 21 | From Chinon Henry 's body was carried to Fontevraud and laid in the abbey church . |
| 22 | His embalmed body was carried to Dunfermline for burial , but at his own request his heart had been removed by a trusted comrade-in-arms , Sir James Douglas , to be taken on Crusade . |
| 23 | The existence of the railways also opened up the Continent , and Hamburg and Rotterdam served as terminal stations on a network of lines running to Austria , Hungary , and Poland , along which livestock was carried for export . |
| 24 | In all , 122,243 tonnes out of a total of 149,990 tonnes of foodstuffs of all kinds was carried into Paris by rail . |
| 25 | In my woodland she came to rest , and to my house she was carried into sanctuary . |
| 26 | That change was carried into effect on I July 1948 and remains the basis for hospital finance today . |
| 27 | At the closing public session on Saturday , 21 November , there was no applause as a grim-faced pope was carried into St Peter 's . |
| 28 | Here , instead of the normal Roman practice of providing a gradual fall of the water channel — Vitruvius stated that a fall of 6 inches for every 100 feet was considered desirable — the water was carried under pressure across the broad valley . |
| 29 | As Minch was carried past Woil 's cage he said , ‘ Nice Men brought Minch back to us . |
| 30 | The play was a two-hander , which meant that it was carried from beginning to end by the two stars . |