Example sentences of "carried [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As flagship of the quartet , N185 carried aboard the then Secretary of State for Air , Sir Samuel Hoare . |
| 2 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |
| 3 | I was horn in March 1947 , at the peak of the Bulge : more babies horn that month than ever before or after , and carried through the terrible winter of 1946–47 . |
| 4 | During 1917 the proletariat detached the mass of the petty bourgeoisie from their earlier allegiance to the Mensheviks , SRs , and bourgeois nationalist movements of the minority nationalities , and in October , in alliance with the poorest peasantry , carried through the epoch-making socialist revolution . |
| 5 | The unusual theme was carried through the entire wedding , with vodka and schnapps served at the back of the church . |
| 6 | Edward I also became involved with the Scots by claiming the right of arbitration between the rivals for the Scottish throne , at the end of 1290 , and he installed a puppet government in the lowlands of Scotland and carried off the traditional coronation stone from Scone , transporting it to Westminster . |
| 7 | Coal for the mill 's steam engine was carried up the steep hill on donkeys . |
| 8 | Fifteen ships of the line , caught by the flood-tide , were carried into the unprotected bays of Cherbourg and La Hogue , where , on Sunday 22 May , Russell at last caught up with them . |
| 9 | Hayboxes were being carried into the principal rooms by the Mess staff , direct from the cooks back in the château . |
| 10 | Apply woodworking adhesive to both hole rim and dowel end so adhesive is carried into the joint |
| 11 | ‘ It was all cooked together , Inspector , but that for the high table was placed there , ’ Auguste explained , pointing to a corner table , ‘ and the rest was carried into the other kitchen , which is usually used for the preparation of food and storage . |
| 12 | The aldermanic principle was carried into the new county councils , and there were other indications that power would not easily be dispersed : ‘ the provisions for decentralisation … were whittled away , and in the end very little was left of the grand scheme of devolution ’ ( Redlich and Hirst 1958:207 ) . |
| 13 | During autumn he puts out his invisible lines that can only be seen under the microscope of the sun beams , and he is carried into the deep ocean , a balloonist travelling to an unknown destination . |
| 14 | The murmur of chanting voices carried above the far-distant thunder of the Grand Trunk Road , the old Mughal highway linking the farms of the Punjab with the bazaars of Delhi . |
| 15 | The " messages " from the brain are carried via the central nervous system : the brain itself and the thick bundle of nerve fibres which runs from it ( strictly , as an elongation of the brain ) through and along the spinal column . |
| 16 | Developed from a vast influx of sand that was carried onto the low rock basement by a rising sea level over the last seven or eight thousand years ( Ritchie , 1985 ) , machair with its essentially base-rich , alkaline , free-draining soils has provided a distinctive landscape element . |
| 17 | The glider circled the escarpment and was carried with the warm air currents into the upper atmosphere . |
| 18 | Three swords and two sceptres were carried before the English king at his coronation in 1189 : the sceptre with the cross probably signifying power and justice , the sceptre with the dove , equity and mercy , while the three swords may have been associated singly with authority , mercy and justice . |
| 19 | The danger of serious conflict occurring on the border was anticipated in a motion proposed by the United States and carried in the General Assembly in 1949 authorising UNCOK to observe developments on the border and to report back on clashes that could give rise to war . |
| 20 | In answer to the problem I set myself ( reports of which were carried in the provincial press in 1980 ) , a certain Mr A. Hatton of Birmingham wrote : ‘ If you visit some of the pubs , clubs and places of enquiry , you will get the solution to your enquiry … just speak to the majority of working people , blacks do not have the intellect or inclination for academics ’ ( personal communication , 12 June 1980 ) . |
| 21 | Daily reports of money market events , prices and yields are carried in the Financial Times . |
| 22 | The lunge whip is carried in the outside hand , pointing down the back . |
| 23 | The ideas carried in the individual features , including an end to mass unemployment , a planned economy , a comprehensive system of social security and health care , a clean sweep of all that was old-fashioned and squalid in housing and the urban legacy of the industrial revolution , and many more , represented a virtual glossary of progressive views current in the Britain of the 1930s and its contributors a fair cross-section of the high-minded and socially concerned individuals who had been advocating these and similar ideas well before the outbreak of war . |
| 24 | And by altering a few easy to undo buckles , baby can be carried in the cradling position and you can breast feed in privacy . |
| 25 | The stress distribution in a glued joint is very far from uniform and , in a typical joint , such as Figure 1 , virtually the whole of the load is carried in the extreme ends or edges of the joint . |
| 26 | In one interesting analysis of this issue , Sauvant and Mennis ( 1980 ) argue that the TNCs act as transmission belts along which the contents of what they label the TNC ‘ business culture ’ are carried from the rich countries to the poor countries of the world . |
| 27 | The Doctor and Blake sat on the side of a hill watching the bones being carried from the archaeological dig to a large mechanical transporter . |
| 28 | A few caskets were carried from the docked ship , each bearing upon it a stasis box wrapped in a yellow banner embroidered with fanged skulls , protecting the precious Progenoid organs . |
| 29 | Children with ABL can not absorb fat because they lack the lipoproteins in which fats are carried from the small intestine into the bloodstream . |
| 30 | The numerator , 1 , is carried over the decimal point to become unc This will be divided by 2 giving the answer 5 in the tenths column , or 0.5 . |