Example sentences of "carry [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In any case , no head is powerful enough to carry effectively the sort of responsibility that the management of the National Curriculum , in the context of the rest of the Act , will bring . |
2 | Benny had elected to carry only a revolver , though she had tucked a couple of grenades in the pockets of a second safari jacket she had pilfered from the TARDIS 's wardrobe . |
3 | I think she 's getting carried away a bit there . |
4 | They were further charged with stealing a motor-cycle combination on which they are said to have carried away the safe . |
5 | These will be carried once a month and will alternate with contracts in the food and electronics sectors . |
6 | The statues of Athena and Zeus respectively at Athens and Olympia by the sculptor Phidias carried forward the tradition , but the figures in which flesh was rendered in ivory and hair and garments in beaten gold were in this case around forty feet high . |
7 | With the partial exception of Durrell , however , none of the writers mentioned carried forward an energy for experiment into a later age by working in Britain . |
8 | Ears of medium size , pendant , triangular in shape ; when carried alertly the ears are level with the top of the skull and appear to broaden it . |
9 | In 1851 , which , with symbolic appropriateness , was the year in which a hungry urban population exceeded for the first time the population of the countryside , drainage-minded landlords up from the shires were able to carry away a wealth of interesting ideas from the Great Exhibition . |
10 | The drought had aggravated the effluent problem as the company was forced to rent tankers to carry away the effluent which was an even more costly , though temporary , solution . |
11 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
12 | Patients were dying by the hundreds , but there was nobody to carry away the corpses . |
13 | The carts to carry away the corpses went round the streets announced by the drivers ' bells and the cry , ‘ Bring out your dead ’ . |
14 | Each class is given a credit rating ( normally one credit per class , but some half-classes like Quantitative Methods or Computing , which are obligatory in the Business School , may carry only a half credit ) . |
15 | Many of the coaxial links in the ground today can carry only a handful of different channels at the same time . |
16 | In a year the shop would be no more , lorries would carry away the rubble to which it had been reduced , leaving a gap to be filled by yet another chain store . |
17 | We will carry forward a family support initiative , encouraging the voluntary sector to work in partnership with families and local authorities . |
18 | At the Royal Society launch therefore we convened an impressive group of people who might initiate and carry forward the discussion . |
19 | On the other hand , we can carry forward the process of reform and build on the achievements of the last 12 years . |
20 | I have to drop the work on the catalogue and get into my studio for a few hours each day to carry further a painting which began as a request : it is called ‘ War Games ’ . |
21 | As a first step you might refuse the plastic bags that are thrust upon you at the supermarket check-out and use boxes to carry home the food . |
22 | But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone , nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism . |
23 | However , this is all due to change with the proposed introduction of a new chain ferry which will be able to carry twice the number of cars . |
24 | Irwin succeeded in establishing his own , but not in destroying that of Gandhi , which acquired a greater effulgence every time — eight in all — he trudged down Lutyens ' great new processional way , opened with brilliant festivity just a week or so ago , carrying only a manila folder and his ever-present staff , to meet the lord of all the world that most of his fellow Indians knew . |
25 | The French arrived carrying only a doctor and two other medical staff and safely evacuated 21 wounded Muslims . |
26 | Despite carrying only a camera and an apple , I soon lag behind again . |
27 | The wind , as he stopped to sniff it , was reassuring , carrying only the scents of evening dew , may and cow-dung . |
28 | This is despite the fact that they carry only a minority of the 13 stigmata of weediness . |
29 | Carrying just a handgrip , D'Arcy was able to leave them waiting for their luggage and took a taxi direct to the Champs Elysées . |
30 | Sean ran out of the house carrying just the bag which he had grabbed going out . |