Example sentences of "carried the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Wade built forty bridges up here inside a decade : and he carried the metaphor of his construction over into his administration — ; under his command , military rule in the wake of an insurrection proved less brutal , more instinctively communal , than the savagery of the butcher Cumberland who followed him . |
| 2 | He was the genuine article , a caddie who followed the circuit for year after year and carried the bags of two Open Champions . |
| 3 | But in a week in which Britain was in the self-hypnotised thrall of royalty and its traditions , any criticism carried the odium of high treason . |
| 4 | The Bees did n't know who to mark as United switched their play and their players to totally confuse them with classy running that carried the hallmarks of good coaching . |
| 5 | A few months ago a newspaper carried the story of a couple who had created a garden — now to be opened to the public — during the years that they were housebound , caring for sick relatives . |
| 6 | Marx carried the criticism of Hegel 's position much further , and he is equally critical of the young Hegelians . |
| 7 | Parliament discarded the phrase ‘ those whose minds are open to such immoral influence ’ , with its overtones of whether or not a gentleman would let his servants read such and such a book , since the words ‘ deprave and corrupt ’ already carried the sense of ‘ immoral influence ’ , together with a tacit assumption that writings or other works of the imagination could have the effect of tending to make men wicked . |
| 8 | As in previous years , the resolutions not to discuss business ( it carried the threat of a fine ) gave way early on the first evening . |
| 9 | For instance , all the coins made by Richard the Lionheart and his brother John carried the name of their long-dead father , Henry II . |
| 10 | The mucky message carried the name of a constable at the top . |
| 11 | The Stolypin carriage carried the name of the Tsarist minister struck down by an assassin seventy years before . |
| 12 | Typescripts photocopied and distributed that carried the rivulet of dissent from eye to eye for the few who trusted in a future of change and the ultimate destruction of the monolith that controlled their lives . |
| 13 | They took the briefs and carried the tablets of stone back to their Branches , where this particular Manager gave out hell at the futility of it all . |
| 14 | Powered by a converted Ford V6 , the aircraft carried the markings of Billy Bishop , Canadian commander of 85 Squadron , RFC . |
| 15 | The vague term ‘ really serious crime ’ was defined to mean an offence which carried the possibility of a three-year sentence for conviction on a first offence , or one in which large numbers of people were involved . |
| 16 | What is certain is that he carried the legend of a king or emperor waiting to be reborn for several centuries , just as the British King Arthur has done . |
| 17 | In addition the Workers Birth Control Group , led by Frida Laski , carried the message of family limitation to Wales and Durham . |
| 18 | If we look forward again to the great lords of the later Middle Ages , heralds could proclaim their ancient , or moderately ancient lineage , and they carried the crest of their family , or families , on their coat of arms . |
| 19 | I could n't have you , but I carried the memory of that day into every battle , into every stupid , meaningless council , to every siege . |
| 20 | For two hundred years the Waterways carried the goods of Britain . |
| 21 | Four of the Diocesan Brancardiers carried the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes , and the torchlight procession round the church after Mass , to the fervent singing of the Lourdes hymn , was a very moving experience . |
| 22 | It carried the taint of autumn , that melancholy transition time before winter . |
| 23 | Gently he put the gun down on the table and carried the pile of plates over to the sink . |
| 24 | Isobel moved softly as she carried the pile of fresh disposable diapers to the cupboard . |
| 25 | Leo carried the pile of crockery into the kitchen and began to load it into the dishwasher . |
| 26 | A recent study of the Gloucestershire gentry has shown that many of those from the knightly class who served were young men , whose elders carried the burden of local administration . |
| 27 | Essentially Glasgow and Edinburgh were the two towns which provided the bulk of the membership and carried the burden of administration . |
| 28 | In reporting his death the annual report of 1957 states : " It would not be an exaggeration to say that his shoulders carried the burden of the BDDA income for the greater part of that period . " |
| 29 | The radical faction , however , was somewhat strengthened by the enhanced position of Khomeini 's son , Ahmad Khomeini , who had already established himself within the Iranian political scene [ see p. 36630 ] , and who after his father 's death was able to claim that his views and pronouncements carried the authority of the late leader . |
| 30 | This is essentially the story of two North British Railway branch lines who carried the people of East Fife , together with generations of golfers , to the coast . |