Example sentences of "carry by the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully .
2 We have seen how when the tonic syllable is followed by a tail the tone is carried by the tonic plus tail together in such a way that in some cases practically no pitch movement is detectable on the tonic syllable itself .
3 However , Glashow himself remarked that the Nobel committee really took rather a gamble , because we do not yet have particle accelerators of high enough energy to test the theory in the regime where unification between the electromagnetic forces , carried by the photon , and the weak forces , carried by the W + , W - , and Z , really occurs .
4 The AVHRR sensor carried by the NOAA satellites has a visible and a short-wave infrared band , and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington , DC produces global vegetation maps on a routine basis using the ratio transform outlined above .
5 I swam down the coast , carried by the current .
6 The Captain decided not to switch on his engines until they were further away ; he was content to let the vessel be carried by the tide .
7 He had begun to coax her in the direction of her room now , the drinks tray left forgotten on the counter-top , and she went along helplessly , carried by the tide of his will and of her own incurable need to be with him .
8 The oil was carried by the tide onto the shore .
9 Although most of the time the energy not carried by the electron was taken away by an everyday massless neutrino , sometimes it was carried by a neutrino that weighed a comparatively large 17 keV .
10 The XPS spectrum consists of a record of the number of electrons ejected as a function of the energy carried by the electron , so the electrons must be detected after an analysis of their energies .
11 A placard carried by the child of a Clydeside rent striker in 1915 declared : ‘ My father is fighting in France ; we are fighting the Huns at home . ’
12 The loss would then be carried by the person responsible for the defect .
13 Now the authority of the community was carried by the Sanhedrin they brought him to what is what they accepted as a trial erm they 'd assessed that something was going against their structures , and as I 've already said religious life was the most important thing he 'd broken it seems a religious law and the council the court the gathering together of the seventy members of the Sanhedrin were going to in a serious sort of way check this out , check this accusation out .
14 This means that the language of literature is no longer regarded as subordinated to the message supposedly carried by the text , and this emptiness of content illustrates far more powerfully than could anything else the primacy of language itself .
15 These are then followed by animated discussion , calling upon members of the audience to comment upon the social messages carried by the performance , including the literacy debate itself .
16 Apart from some photographs taken by astronauts using hand-held cameras , and some experimental photographs taken by cameras carried by the Space Shuttle , all remotely-sensed imagery from satellites is digital in nature .
17 An example often quoted is that of Bernard Bloch , who defined the style of a text as " the message carried by the frequency distributions and transitional probabilities of its linguistic features , especially as they differ from those of the same features in the language as a whole Such definitions appeal to the empiricist , who would like to reduce a subjectively perceived phenomenon to something objective , but they tend to alarm the student of literature .
18 Housework contrasts with employment work in its lack of economic reward , its isolation and the lack of social recognition accorded to the responsibilities carried by the housewife .
19 Typically , its costs are a fair expression of the expenses carried by the lender .
20 FIG. 1 Flux expulsion creates a pair of flux patches of opposite polarity at the core surface ; they are then carried by the core flow .
21 The journey is a slow one for the tiny fish do little more than allow themselves to be carried by the river current .
22 The importance of information about steady-state values should be emphasised , as well as the need for these values to be carried by the patient at all times .
23 A wand tipped with a pine cone was commonly carried by the god or his worshippers .
24 Sand and rock carried by the water helped to erode the limestone further and to chisel out cave passages and chambers in areas where the rock was particularly weak .
25 A fluid particle with positive v is being carried by the turbulence in the positive y-direction .
26 Its name derives from the fact that , instead of the eggs being spawned in water and left to their own devices , they are carried by the male wrapped in strings around his legs .
27 Although often unreliable , the weapons carried by the crew of a War Wagon are sufficiently varied that even if some of them malfunction , some of the others are bound to work .
28 A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac .
29 Separate points values have also been included for the various Engineers School weapons carried by the War Wagon crew and described as part of the War Wagon rules .
30 Speaking to a motion carried by the conference calling for a housing policy review and for ‘ massive public investment ’ in quality homes for rent , he said he was glad Labour was now addressing the problem , for you could not build decent homes without creating a safe environment to live in .
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