Example sentences of "carry [adv] the [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 | They were further charged with stealing a motor-cycle combination on which they are said to have carried away the safe . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Patients were dying by the hundreds , but there was nobody to carry away the corpses . |
| 8 | The carts to carry away the corpses went round the streets announced by the drivers ' bells and the cry , ‘ Bring out your dead ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At the Royal Society launch therefore we convened an impressive group of people who might initiate and carry forward the discussion . |
| 11 | On the other hand , we can carry forward the process of reform and build on the achievements of the last 12 years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone , nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The wind , as he stopped to sniff it , was reassuring , carrying only the scents of evening dew , may and cow-dung . |
| 16 | Sean ran out of the house carrying just the bag which he had grabbed going out . |
| 17 | ‘ Lord Raglan wishes the Cavalry to advance rapidly to the front , follow the enemy and try to prevent the enemy carrying away the guns . ’ |
| 18 | The visitor was often allowed to pull the press and , at least in some places , in return for watching the setting of the type and the privilege of carrying away the souvenir , was expected to buy beer for the workmen . |
| 19 | ( Gesneriaceae ) carrying away the minute seeds . |
| 20 | Azazel ( 8,10 ) : a place in the wilderness to which the scapegoat was sent , symbolically carrying away the sins of Israel . |
| 21 | The wash basin was passed again for us to wash , the soap and warm water carrying away the grease from our hands . |
| 22 | But this skill was replaced by the inclined table which simply had the slime/water mix fed on at its top end , the stream of water carrying away the waste . |
| 23 | The in vitro binding of CytR to the mutated promoters was characterized in a gel retardation assay using purified CytR protein and purified 32 P-endlabelled DNA fragments carrying either the wt- or the mutated promoters . |
| 24 | Males have instead one X chromosome and one small Y chromosome , which means that on their single X they carry either the red or the non-red gene , but can not have both . |
| 25 | All the competition prizes will contain at least 80 per cent wool and carry either the woolmark or the wool heart mark as a guarantee of quality . |
| 26 | All licensed taxis in Brighton & Hove carry either the words ‘ Brighton Taxi ’ or ‘ Hove Taxi ’ on the centre of the roof . |
| 27 | Perhaps he has just waited to see what was emerging and then stepped in quickly to take the initiative and carry forward the proposal which he has sensed is about to emerge . |
| 28 | The participants voted to set up an Association for Communication and Theological Education to carry forward the discussions held at Yale . |
| 29 | Alongside resolutions on Russia and Peace , the Convention called for the immediate restoration of civil liberties , and for the establishment of all-inclusive local committees to carry forward the agitation — provocatively named Workers ' and Soldiers , Councils . |
| 30 | Each generation of legionnaires was expected to carry forward the traditions and ethics of the Legion , handing them down from one man to the next . |