Example sentences of "[is] carry [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , around half of transatlantic telephony traffic is carried via satellite . |
| 2 | You are the first of the king 's officers to know that Lord Grey of Ruthyn is carried off prisoner into Wales , and if this moment you turned out the muster of every shire between here and Denbigh , and loosed them into Clocaenog forest , do you think you would find hide or hair of a Welshman there ? |
| 3 | The CMR further provided that where the vehicle containing the goods is carried over part of the journey by sea , rail , inland waterways or air , and , except in cases of emergency , the goods are not unloaded from the vehicle , the CMR shall nevertheless apply to the whole of the carriage . |
| 4 | SCENE OF SLAUGHTER : A woman victim is carried to safety amid the terror of the massacre |
| 5 | Moreover , recent work has shown that much of the heat energy in the seas of the North Atlantic ( every square kilometre of which gives off as much energy as a nuclear power station and hence influences our weather ) is absorbed from sunlight in the tropical Pacific and is carried by ocean currents through the Drake Passage and up into the Atlantic . |
| 6 | Dissolved material may subsequently be reprecipitated or be reincorporated into other minerals , but the great proportion is carried by rivers to the ocean . |
| 7 | Leishmania braziliensis is carried by sandflies . |
| 8 | If the effect of use and disuse is to alter the nature of the proteins in the body , and if the replicable information passed on to future generations is carried by DNA , then Weismann has to be right if the central dogma is right . |
| 9 | This influential paper proceeded from an explanation that for many processes above the level of competence , the rate of movement of material can be expressed as a power function of some stress , to demonstrate that the largest portion of sediment transported by rivers is carried by flows which occur on average once or twice each year , and that transport of sand and dust by wind follows the same laws . |
| 10 | The weapon is carried by Engineers either on horseback or in one of the Engineers School 's War Wagons . |
| 11 | The campaign works indirectly by rumour to frighten people , and whatever they can or ca n't prove the threat is carried by word of mouth and claimants run for cover . |
| 12 | At present the timber felled in this district is carried by road to Montgomery Station , for despatch by railway . |
| 13 | The produce of one quarry is probably about 1,800 tons per annum , and is carried by road a distance of thirteen miles , then ground and sent by canal . |
| 14 | This week , we 'll be examining the need for bypasses more closely , and asking why so much freight is carried by road . |
| 15 | ‘ It is absolutely crazy to have 9,000 tonnes of limestone a week going by road when the Government is offering grants to try to ensure that freight is carried by rail . |
| 16 | The limestone is carried by Trainload Freight , a division of Railfreight , which operates in a deregulated freight market and receives no government subsidy . |
| 17 | The Times , once an ardent supporter of Chadwick , was particularly vicious in its appraisal of his administrative career , chortling that Mr Chadwick would receive his final reward ‘ when he falls at last a sanitary martyr to a choked two-inch pipe drain and is carried by policemen … to an extramural cemetery ’ . |
| 18 | After all it is well known that every type of electromagnetic effect is carried by photons , and we have seen that photons can not escape from within a black hole . |
| 19 | Reassuringly , your luggage is carried by car between each stop . |
| 20 | During her pregnancy , Julie Reece was infected by a parasitic disease called toxoplasmosis , which is carried by pets or in undercooked meat … |
| 21 | This list is carried in publicity and in information given directly to pupils in their final year of compulsory schooling . |
| 22 | Traditionally everything is carried in baskets on the head or shoulders , and you can often see these large wicker baskets full of cabbage , potatoes , oranges , apples or whatever is in season waiting at the side of the road for transport to the market in Funchal . |
| 23 | Because topic is carried in talk , ordinary conversation will form the data . |