Example sentences of "carried [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By nineteen ninety-one sixty-one per cent was being carried on the roads with just seven per cent going by rail — part of the continuing trend of freight away from rail to road . |
| 2 | It 's very nasty vapours and has got a fairly low flashpoint and is unfortunately carried on the motorways every day of the week . ’ |
| 3 | I cut it out of Cosmopolitan magazine : an article entitled ‘ Think Yourself Thin ’ , illustrated by a blonde woman in a bikini being carried on the arms of two grinning , solid young men . |
| 4 | Sometimes xerolas ( vegetables and/or fruits , often in the shape of a gigantic ball and strung on a pole which is carried on the shoulders of two men ) are carried in the procession . |
| 5 | Will he ensure that sufficient facilities are made available north of Manchester and Liverpool to allow people and freight to be carried on the trains ? |
| 6 | Some cargo is still carried on the waterways , although mainly on the broad canals and rivers . |
| 7 | Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore . |
| 8 | Passengers had perforce to ride , and goods were carried on the backs of packhorses or mules . |
| 9 | He had died before she 'd finished university , but she had carried out the plans they had made . |
| 10 | Indeed these officials are likely to have carried out the duties of assistant commissioner , resident magistrate , general arbitrator , tax-collector and market supervisor all rolled into one . |
| 11 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |
| 12 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 13 | An alternative explanation for Abu Nidal involvement was the suggestion that his group might have carried out the killings on behalf of the Iraqi regime ; this version depended on the suggestion that Abu Iyad , while publicly backing the PLO 's pro-Iraqi line , was expressing reservations about it to Arafat in private . |
| 14 | Dodman offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 15 | Dodman had offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 16 | But it must be recognized at the outset that as soon as sampling is carried out the statements made about the cases involved become probability statements . |
| 17 | If you have carried out the calculations suggested , you will have found that average spend per head in 1983 was roughly £9.00 , in 1984 £10.50 and in 1985 £11.75 . |
| 18 | During my discussions with President Yeltsin , he explicitly accepted the disproportion between the British nuclear deterrent , Trident , and the nuclear capacity that will be available to the Soviet Union even after it has carried out the reductions to which it has committed itself , and which will take a decade or more to implement . |
| 19 | Ears of medium size , pendant , triangular in shape ; when carried alertly the ears are level with the top of the skull and appear to broaden it . |