Example sentences of "carry the [adj] burden [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there does not seem to exist an accepted notion of ‘ grammatically different element ’ which is sufficiently well-defined to carry the whole burden of distinguishing lexical units . |
| 2 | Paralleling the Commission was the Council of Ministers , the organ of the national governments , which was to carry the main burden of coordinating policies . |
| 3 | In her study of 61 white mothers conducted in London in 1983–4 , Wilson ( 1987 ) found that none relied upon their children 's grandparents to carry the main burden of child care while they themselves went out to work , but most regarded grandmothers as support which they could use on a more casual basis for babysitting , and as help in emergencies . |
| 4 | ‘ You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and discharge my duties as the heir to the throne without the help and support of the woman I now loathe . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I will not be able to carry the physical burden of leading the Party at the next General Election . |
| 6 | Although those who work with old people will have observed for themselves that in this group there are a significant number of male carers , the implications have not been fully drawn out because so many old disabled people at home alone are women and so many younger women carry the main burden of informal care at home . |
| 7 | Instead of carrying the miserable burden of mass unemployment , we could be investing in new technology and in new skills , training and retraining our talented people to face a fiercely competitive world : instead of our education system declining and our health service fracturing , we could be building high-quality public services which extend security and opportunity to every family in the land ; instead of a society diminished by the violence and dishonesty of crime , we could be building strong communities which provided opportunity as well as protection for every citizen . |
| 8 | However , Randall ( with more concern for principled commercial independence than for the economic logic of external benefits ) refused to ask for such a subvention from central reserve funds for his London Board ( which carried the greatest burden of standardisation expenditure ) . |
| 9 | Information from unconventional sources not related to the industry carries the extra burden of having to be proved relevant or urgent . |
| 10 | There are still libraries where books and materials themselves are kept on " closed access " , in other words available only on request to the library staff ; the catalogue carries the whole burden of revealing to the clientele the contents of the stock , by subject or author or whatever " retrieval handle " is thought to be worth displaying . |