Example sentences of "to carry a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at this point when a range of established values were under scrutiny , the body was made to carry a new symbolic load which reflected the change from the social conformity of the previous decades . |
| 2 | These are just the job if you need to carry a rechargeable drill around with you , especially when working from a ladder or steps . |
| 3 | OME props ought to carry a warning . |
| 4 | It further alleged that he had been a ‘ fifth columnist ’ working for the Army in west Belfast in the 1970s , and had been given immunity by the RUC to carry a gun and carry out robberies . |
| 5 | ‘ Tell me , Padre , is it usual for a priest to carry a rifle ? ’ |
| 6 | Such a government had to be able to carry a programme of economies through the House of Commons : this immediately ruled out the possibility of a Labour minority government led by Henderson , as suggested by Moodie in an otherwise illuminating article . |
| 7 | Sometimes the coercion and oppression is felt directly in the paintings : for example , in images of Saint Isidore , a rather obscure Spanish saint vastly amplified in the New World as the patron of labourers , who is shown to carry a small bag of coca leaves as the Indian peasants and miners did , and do , to chew to combat hunger and fatigue . |
| 8 | He had to carry a clothes prop to feel where the ditches where . |
| 9 | In their absence , Jerry Jenkins , a veteran so aged that his court time is usually handed out in short and widely spaced passages , was required to carry a heavier load . |
| 10 | And if one had to put oneself in a vulnerable situation , like rugging or grooming him , the handler had to carry a cane . |
| 11 | Your Mahler performances have always seemed to carry a starker , more purely tragic message . |
| 12 | A deal was even signed allowing a telephone company to carry a hologram picture of Kylie on credit cards used in Japan 's public phone boxes . |
| 13 | He said that they would be subject to the same collective discipline , would be able to carry a majority in the Commons and would be able to sustain the short-term unpopularity of some of the decisions that might be necessary to get the economy moving again . |
| 14 | Dr Boris Zhurid , director of the Aquamarine Dolphinarium in Sebastopol , said yesterday that the floating oceanarium , once completed , would comprise a tug with three swimming pools to carry a variety of sea animals . |
| 15 | The Conservatives there will be lucky to have enough members to carry a caber after Thursday , yet with proportional representation they would have at least 15 seats . |
| 16 | The BBC 's International Role : The charter should be amended to carry a specific guarantee of editorial independence from Government . |
| 17 | There was a similar reaction in Hertfordshire when the resignation of the University 's resident tutor in the county , Vivian Ramsbottom , to become Administrative Officer of the Joint Committee , led the District AGM of 1955 to carry a motion expressing ‘ belief that the presence of a Resident Tutor in the County is vital to the growth of the educational work which the WEA and the University do together ’ . |
| 18 | The considerable amount of water saved was now , in effect , available southward for the Braunston stretch ( itself a summit ) , where there was a perennial water shortage , for this canal continued to carry a large through traffic from the Birmingham area . |
| 19 | I will never understand how a country that savagely defends the right of every citizen to carry a gun ( and that wo n't enforce seat-belt laws because they interfere with the rights of the individual ) meekly accepts the 55 mph speed limit . |
| 20 | Bales are more convenient for feeding , but with an old-fashioned long-tined hay fork , it is not difficult to carry a good load . |
| 21 | But why anyone would want to carry a bike up a mountain on their shoulder for the pleasure of being able to bump about on it for tiny , short stretches of flat ridge was completely beyond me . |
| 22 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 23 | They had to carry a table out with them , which was set up the required ten metres from the shed wall , and the pistols were laid out , and the targets pinned up . |
| 24 | The oldest surviving bridge is an iron one built in 1824 to carry a by-road across the New River from the A10 to Great Amwell village . |
| 25 | The skew-arch railway viaduct was built in 1862 to carry a branch line of the Border Counties Railway across the valley of the Kielder Burn . |
| 26 | He said if Hal would get the American clearance , he would look after Russian permission to carry a Canadian journalist and radio man into his country and back . |
| 27 | Because of this growing interest , current food labelling regulations require nearly all foods composed of more than one ingredient to carry a list of ingredients . |
| 28 | It is no hardship to have to carry a pail of water along a flat surface . ’ |
| 29 | I was allowed to carry a small torch then , and had another student with me . |
| 30 | Mobile shops are literally ‘ shops on wheels ’ — vans converted to carry a range of goods , from fruit and vegetables to hardware . |