Example sentences of "of carrying [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd driven her directly to her hotel so she could change her clothes and she 'd elected to wear lightweight cream cotton jeans topped by a matching sleeveless cotton stretch top , taking the precaution of carrying a jacket when Rune warned her that the breeze from the Baltic could be stiff despite the increasing warmth of the day . |
| 2 | Is it possible you do n't know that Berenice has had three miscarriages and that with every one her chance of carrying a child to term diminishes ? ’ |
| 3 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 4 | The Minister is a little older than I , but when I was a rough and tough lad , we would never have dreamt of carrying a knife and nor would he . |
| 5 | So smile , be charming , and resist the temptation to elbow small children off the path to their doom for the crime of carrying a ghetto-blaster up the hill . |
| 6 | He took the precaution , however , of carrying a typewriter and books among his luggage so that he could prepare for an address at the University of Leeds which he was to give in the following year . |
| 7 | Because of her age , she had a one in 180 chance of carrying a baby with Down 's , yet she was not unusual in deciding against having an amniocentesis . |
| 8 | He developed the habit of carrying a book of poetry in his pocket , which he might open at any time for a swig of the sublime . |
| 9 | At Gloucester Crown Court , Rennie admitted 2 charges of kidnap and one of carrying a firearm . |
| 10 | Women should , if possible , put their purse and cheque book in an inside coat pocket instead of carrying a handbag . |
| 11 | Magnified as much by his fever as by the brass telescope to his eye , he saw Hookum Singh , a giant Sikh capable of carrying a barrel of powder on his back , stagger after Harry Dunstaple , emptying the powder in piles at the corners of the Cutcherry building and around pillars and supports . |
| 12 | Now we all know that the reason for this inordinate six month delay was that the government could n't be sure of carrying a vote on anything European in the face of hostility from its Maastricht rebels , those the Prime Minister famously dubbed the illegitimate ones . |
| 13 | ‘ You had no doubt of carrying the day , I collect ? ’ |
| 14 | He 'd grown tired of carrying the basket . |
| 15 | It was a cold night and I had no overcoat but I was soon sweating with the effort of carrying the suitcase . |
| 16 | The ‘ flyback diode ’ D1 must be a fast recovery type and be capable of carrying the peak inductor current . |
| 17 | The diode used must be capable of carrying the peak inductor current ; in addition , it must be able to recover from its conducting state to its blocking state in a very short space of time . |
| 18 | There even seems to have been some notion of carrying the plateway along as far as Husbands Bosworth . |
| 19 | Instead of carrying the vector a round the closed path NABN , the being could compare the result of carrying a to B along one path NAB with the result for the direct path NB . |
| 20 | Allen , ankle-deep in water and with no hope of carrying the ball forward , chalked up his 14th of the season when he unleashed a crashing 25-yard volley which gave goalkeeper Graziani no chance . |
| 21 | The lacinia is commonly spined or toothed on its inner border and when fused with the subgalea it has the appearance of carrying the galea . |
| 22 | They also have the job of carrying the water home in pails from a pipe used by the whole village . |
| 23 | In 1236 he had both the honour of carrying the sceptre at the queen 's coronation , and the disgrace of imprisonment through a court cabal . |
| 24 | I hope somewhere down the line I 'll have the opportunity of carrying the sack again for him . |
| 25 | Three joined together can form a ferry capable of carrying the Challenger tank , or they can be coupled to form a bridge capable of carrying even the heaviest Army loads . |
| 26 | It broke Tony Cottee … and the Everton striker reveals for the first time the enormous cost of carrying the tag of Britain 's costliest player . |
| 27 | In both the first stages of the African Mathematics Programmes and the Regional Programmes which followed it , very considerable investment was made in both initial and in-service teacher training and international ‘ Institutes ’ designed to promote a cadre of university staff , teacher trainers and inspectors capable of carrying the momentum of the project . |
| 28 | He emptied the coffers of the Phoenix Throne to build a new and mighty fleet capable of carrying the war to the northern seas and stopping the flow of reinforcements from Naggaroth . |
| 29 | Without wishing to get too involved in technicalities , it is worth explaining that a fail-safe structure is one in which there are one or more pieces of redundant structure ( i.e. not subject to loading in normal flight ) which are capable of carrying the flight loads in the event of a failure of the primary load bearing structure . |
| 30 | She was now burdened with the unpleasant task of carrying the Cell . |