Example sentences of "[adv] carry [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In eighteen thirty one Charlotte was sent to the , to Roe Head School at Murfield She was at first homesick , but eventually carried off three prizes . |
| 2 | The proposed ban was eventually carried by 7 votes to 5 , but hunt supporters believe they 'll win the full vote next month . |
| 3 | Some parts of the country showed more significant growth than others : on the east coast , the number of sailings not only rose in absolute terms between the 1460s and the early sixteenth century , but the proportion of those by English ships approximately doubled , although there were some exports which were largely carried in foreign vessels . |
| 4 | In the past year , builder John has already carried off one stunt after another . |
| 5 | Worn as an amulet they even warded off the evil eye and , in a more generalised form , are still carried for this purpose by Italians today . |
| 6 | Essentially it is a sexually-transmitted disease but it is also carried in infected blood and blood products so ‘ at risk ’ are intravenous drug users ; recipients of blood transfusions , for example haemophiliacs ; and anyone who is in contact with the blood of infected individuals . |
| 7 | An alternative , favoured by those of a religious persuasion , was that A'Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating , as were all the stars in the sky which were , obviously , also carried by giant turtles . |
| 8 | Containers are often carried by multimodal transport , involving as part of the transport , international carriage by road . |
| 9 | With the improvement of transport during the nineteenth century , building materials were more frequently carried over greater distances , and soon after the opening of railways houses began to lose that harmony with the countryside so characteristic of the older cottages . |
| 10 | The relatively restricted contrasts are invariably carried by open set elements ; the freely recurring contrasts may be carried by open set items ( as in mare : stallion ) , but the members of a pair of lexical items manifesting such a contrast frequently share the same open set element ( i.e. the root ) , the contrast being signalled by one or more closed set elements ) i.e. affixes ) : |
| 11 | Most ozone is generated above the equator , where the sun 's radiation is strongest , and then carried by stratospheric winds around the earth towards the poles . |
| 12 | The tendency to see the hand of God in every eventuality , even a trivial one , was sometimes carried to excessive lengths . |
| 13 | It was in the next stage , when writing came to carry an increasing proportion of law , learning , religion and history , previously carried in oral forms , that very marked cultural divisions , already socially present in preliterate societies , became , as it were , technically stabilized . |
| 14 | A logical operation is one which treats all bits of the word similarly and independently ; there is no carry from one bit to another , nor is there an underlying implied interpretation of the word as a numeric quantity . |