Example sentences of "carry [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , no head is powerful enough to carry effectively the sort of responsibility that the management of the National Curriculum , in the context of the rest of the Act , will bring . |
| 2 | They were further charged with stealing a motor-cycle combination on which they are said to have carried away the safe . |
| 3 | The police decided that the murderer had carried away the other half . |
| 4 | The statues of Athena and Zeus respectively at Athens and Olympia by the sculptor Phidias carried forward the tradition , but the figures in which flesh was rendered in ivory and hair and garments in beaten gold were in this case around forty feet high . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Patients were dying by the hundreds , but there was nobody to carry away the corpses . |
| 7 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 8 | The carts to carry away the corpses went round the streets announced by the drivers ' bells and the cry , ‘ Bring out your dead ’ . |
| 9 | The drought had aggravated the effluent problem as the company was forced to rent tankers to carry away the effluent which was an even more costly , though temporary , solution . |
| 10 | Because analogue videophones have to squash video and audio down telephone lines developed to carry just the latter , compression techniques are used to reduce the amount of information needed to create a video picture . |
| 11 | In a year the shop would be no more , lorries would carry away the rubble to which it had been reduced , leaving a gap to be filled by yet another chain store . |
| 12 | At the Royal Society launch therefore we convened an impressive group of people who might initiate and carry forward the discussion . |
| 13 | On the other hand , we can carry forward the process of reform and build on the achievements of the last 12 years . |
| 14 | As a first step you might refuse the plastic bags that are thrust upon you at the supermarket check-out and use boxes to carry home the food . |
| 15 | But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone , nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism . |
| 16 | However , this is all due to change with the proposed introduction of a new chain ferry which will be able to carry twice the number of cars . |
| 17 | The wind , as he stopped to sniff it , was reassuring , carrying only the scents of evening dew , may and cow-dung . |
| 18 | His voice was low , the deep tones carrying only the faintest hint of a Scottish accent that time and distance had helped him to shed . |
| 19 | Sean ran out of the house carrying just the bag which he had grabbed going out . |
| 20 | ‘ Lord Raglan wishes the Cavalry to advance rapidly to the front , follow the enemy and try to prevent the enemy carrying away the guns . ’ |
| 21 | The visitor was often allowed to pull the press and , at least in some places , in return for watching the setting of the type and the privilege of carrying away the souvenir , was expected to buy beer for the workmen . |
| 22 | The wash basin was passed again for us to wash , the soap and warm water carrying away the grease from our hands . |
| 23 | Azazel ( 8,10 ) : a place in the wilderness to which the scapegoat was sent , symbolically carrying away the sins of Israel . |
| 24 | But this skill was replaced by the inclined table which simply had the slime/water mix fed on at its top end , the stream of water carrying away the waste . |
| 25 | ( Gesneriaceae ) carrying away the minute seeds . |
| 26 | For the purposes of the Code , " securities " excludes loan stock or loan notes unless such stock or notes carry substantially the same rights as any other securities of the offeror in issue or conversion or subscription rights into any such securities or equity share capital of the offeror . |
| 27 | Three joined together can form a ferry capable of carrying the Challenger tank , or they can be coupled to form a bridge capable of carrying even the heaviest Army loads . |
| 28 | The in vitro binding of CytR to the mutated promoters was characterized in a gel retardation assay using purified CytR protein and purified 32 P-endlabelled DNA fragments carrying either the wt- or the mutated promoters . |
| 29 | Males have instead one X chromosome and one small Y chromosome , which means that on their single X they carry either the red or the non-red gene , but can not have both . |
| 30 | All licensed taxis in Brighton & Hove carry either the words ‘ Brighton Taxi ’ or ‘ Hove Taxi ’ on the centre of the roof . |