Example sentences of "was carry [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The applied voltage was 5 V/cm and electrophoresis was carried at 22°C . |
| 2 | brought together into indissoluble union our Western theory of Darwin and that strange doctrine of metempsychosis which was carried to Japan with Buddhism … |
| 3 | Alhred 's power-base may have been in the lower Tyne , for the body of his son , Osred , was carried to Tynemouth to be buried in the monastery there . |
| 4 | Its status was even higher when it was carried to West Africa by Portuguese traders in 1522 and subsequently by Dutch and French ships . |
| 5 | The work was carried to completion by one of his leading research assistants , Martin Gilbert . |
| 6 | Ruza , who was carried to safety by newsmen , may lose her arm . |
| 7 | From Chinon Henry 's body was carried to Fontevraud and laid in the abbey church . |
| 8 | His embalmed body was carried to Dunfermline for burial , but at his own request his heart had been removed by a trusted comrade-in-arms , Sir James Douglas , to be taken on Crusade . |
| 9 | The existence of the railways also opened up the Continent , and Hamburg and Rotterdam served as terminal stations on a network of lines running to Austria , Hungary , and Poland , along which livestock was carried for export . |
| 10 | In all , 122,243 tonnes out of a total of 149,990 tonnes of foodstuffs of all kinds was carried into Paris by rail . |
| 11 | In my woodland she came to rest , and to my house she was carried into sanctuary . |
| 12 | That change was carried into effect on I July 1948 and remains the basis for hospital finance today . |
| 13 | At the closing public session on Saturday , 21 November , there was no applause as a grim-faced pope was carried into St Peter 's . |
| 14 | Here , instead of the normal Roman practice of providing a gradual fall of the water channel — Vitruvius stated that a fall of 6 inches for every 100 feet was considered desirable — the water was carried under pressure across the broad valley . |
| 15 | As Minch was carried past Woil 's cage he said , ‘ Nice Men brought Minch back to us . |
| 16 | The play was a two-hander , which meant that it was carried from beginning to end by the two stars . |
| 17 | Crops appeared where they had not grown before : rubber was carried from Brazil to become the staple of the Malayan economy , and soon to be very important in Indonesia and Ceylon . |
| 18 | There was no road at that time , and so her coffin was carried from Santo da Serra over the rough mountain tracks to Boaventura . |
| 19 | The heated air passed under the mosaic floor and was carried by flues to the walls . |
| 20 | Thus Yukawa proposed that the strong nuclear force , which holds protons and neutrons together , was carried by particles he named ‘ mesons ’ . |
| 21 | The oil spilt from the Braer was unusually light and toxic , and this , combined with fierce storms which mixed it into the seawater and caused it combine to form clumps with fine particles churned up by the waves , meant that rather than floating to the surface , as is normal with spilt crude oil , it was carried by ocean currents far from the spill site and later redeposited in deep " sumps " on the seabed . |
| 22 | It does not , however , mean that the language of the new Act comes to one entirely free of any of the intellectual freight which was carried by words and phrases in earlier bankruptcy or other legislation . |
| 23 | Amid further merriment it was carried in triumph down the second flight of stairs , through the kitchen and into the boudoir where Franca had already cleared a place for it . |
| 24 | Water was carried in leather buckets from the spring along by the castle , a quarter of a mile down the track . |
| 25 | The vote was carried against Stokes by a majority of well over two to one ; but Noel-Baker later argued in a letter to Attlee that ‘ the overwhelming majority of the Constituency Party delegates were against ‘ Fight for Freedom ’ and Vansittartism' . |
| 26 | Carefully the housekeeper placed the tray she was carrying across Luce 's knees , before opening the shutters and flooding the room with light . |
| 27 | As the sub-manne pulled away , the captain ordered one of two soldiers he was carrying on board to open fire with his Lewis gun on the survivors in the dinghy . |