Example sentences of "[be] carry [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 But the complication of such an operation would be considerable ; and it is reasonable to say that the entire population of the Pacific nations , even if they inhabit the Atlantic seaboard , can make use of the goods that are carried across the Pacific Ocean .
2 Also , whatever their dissimilarities , they all had the advantage of good geographical definition ( the only exception being France , whose eastern frontier had been carried to the Alps by Napoleon III , but which had lost Alsace and Lorraine to Germany in 1871 ) .
3 On his instructions his luggage had already been carried to the Citron by the congaie .
4 This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion .
5 But re-election by the International Amateur Athletic Federation must be carried at the IAAF meeting at Tokyo in August to be effective in time for 1992 .
6 A preview of the Library Resources Exhibition being held at the NEC , Birmingham , from 15th to 17th June will be carried in The Bookseller 's special feature on 21st May .
7 FRCN Kaduna 's Hausa current affairs programme Alkawari Kayane had reports directly from its own correspondent in Minna which were carried in the FRCN programme being relayed there by Radio Niger .
8 These included two Mae Wests from Don Bennett 's Halifax , a section of one of the specially-adapted naval mines that were carried by the Halifaxes , various flying helmets , a leather flying suit and a rudder from Lancaster L7572 ‘ L ’ .
9 The outcome , however , was unchanged ; the compromise clause meeting the same fate as the amendment suspending the death penalty , being carried in the Commons , but again defeated in the Lords .
10 In model ‘ E ’ one patch is carried west and then south to partially eliminate lobe 3 , as is currently occurring beneath South America , and the other patch is carried to the Pacific rim at 0°N ; 90°W , where it remains ( Fig. 1 ) .
11 Up to twenty five percent of all water that drains off the Earth , is carried by the Amazon .
12 Worse , it was carried across the Andes into Peru 's provinces on the upper Amazon , whence it is inexorably moving downstream into Brazil — much richer than Peru , but with even worse social services .
13 At his funeral his coffin was carried by the Headington Quarry morris men in morris rig .
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