Example sentences of "be carry across the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But the complication of such an operation would be considerable ; and it is reasonable to say that the entire population of the Pacific nations , even if they inhabit the Atlantic seaboard , can make use of the goods that are carried across the Pacific Ocean .
2 The tray this morning was about three feet in diameter , an average family size , and would have been carried across the court from the cook house on the head of one of the maids .
3 A small crowd had gathered and she had been carried across the street and inside the nearest shop in order to get her out of the sun .
4 An alternative is that the pipes were carried across the valleys from higher ground on the far side by means of high ( and now completely vanished ) aqueducts .
5 THE MAYOR OF RICHMOND BEING CARRIED ACROSS THE RIVER SWALE ( Page 88 )
6 First , the vector is transformed to a frame in free fall at P and in that frame it is carried across the interval without change of its Cartesian coordinates .
7 Worse , it was carried across the Andes into Peru 's provinces on the upper Amazon , whence it is inexorably moving downstream into Brazil — much richer than Peru , but with even worse social services .
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