Example sentences of "carry [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diabetes is quite a burden to carry through life . ’ |
| 2 | For Sealink Ferries claimed it was too dangerous to carry as cargo . |
| 3 | FEAR : Sealink said beach mud was too dangerous to carry as cargo |
| 4 | Mrs Gaskell 's account is comparatively anodyne : ‘ a little paved court having the backs of the houses at the end opposite to the opening , and a gutter running through the middle to carry off household slops , washing suds , & c . ’ |
| 5 | Well hidden underneath it was , or either the rogues would have found it when they tipped the load , or else the first who came to carry off timber would have seen it . |
| 6 | KATJA Seizinger lost her skis in a dramatic last-gate tumble but remained on course to carry off skiing 's supreme prize . |
| 7 | By the twentieth century , the hegemony of government in the political process ensured that measures could be carried through Parliament without too much difficulty . |
| 8 | She was so chuffed that the blush and the smile carried through lunchtime and well into the evening . |
| 9 | To be able to recognize opportunities for self-actualization is a basic skill that can be carried through life ’ ( 1978 , p. 170 ) . |
| 10 | On scheduled flights sporting equipment may be carried as part of your baggage allowance . |
| 11 | Does he think weapons are carried for effect ? |
| 12 | The existence of the railways also opened up the Continent , and Hamburg and Rotterdam served as terminal stations on a network of lines running to Austria , Hungary , and Poland , along which livestock was carried for export . |
| 13 | Section 18 penalizes the possession of a firearm with intent to commit a crime or to resist arrest : this is a more specific variation of section 16 , catering for the defence that the firearm was being carried for use in a robbery but with no intention that it would actually be used to endanger anyone , only to frighten — that would be a section 18 offence . |
| 14 | You are the first of the king 's officers to know that Lord Grey of Ruthyn is carried off prisoner into Wales , and if this moment you turned out the muster of every shire between here and Denbigh , and loosed them into Clocaenog forest , do you think you would find hide or hair of a Welshman there ? |
| 15 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 16 | Here , instead of the normal Roman practice of providing a gradual fall of the water channel — Vitruvius stated that a fall of 6 inches for every 100 feet was considered desirable — the water was carried under pressure across the broad valley . |
| 17 | These clauses unilaterally abrogated Spain 's 1851 Concordat with Rome and , when carried into law during the next eighteen months , signalled an all-out legislative assault upon the Church 's influential position within Spanish life . |
| 18 | It was an age when Russian soldiers still carried into battle and jealously guarded the picture of the tsar , when Englishmen could still respond emotionally to the title ‘ king-emperor ’ ; yet it was also one in which assassination had become an occupational hazard of royalty . |
| 19 | The Goblin is almost completely unaware of what is happening around him , and he has to be carried into battle by his mates . |
| 20 | Firm acknowledgement and containment of what are natural , but could be dangerous , feelings in childhood offer a useful blueprint to be carried into marriage . |
| 21 | Britain , it is suggested , suffers from an adversary form of Politics , in which a party formulates in opposition — largely for ideological and electorally opportunist reasons — the policies which are then carried into government . |
| 22 | In this way glycine becomes the first amino acid in the protein , being carried into position on the ribosome assembly line by its tRNA . |
| 23 | In my woodland she came to rest , and to my house she was carried into sanctuary . |
| 24 | Inequalities forged or reinforced in the labour market are carried into retirement via occupational and state ( earnings-related ) pension schemes . |
| 25 | It is primarily through variations in access to the ownership of occupational pensions that inequalities forged or reinforced in the labour market are carried into retirement . |
| 26 | We have seen that retirement has a differential impact on older people which depends primarily on their prior socio-economic status and the access which this grants to resources which might be carried into retirement . |
| 27 | The labour market is the primary source of the inequalities which are carried into retirement . |
| 28 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 29 | Parliament further complained that Edward II 's confirmation in August 13 16 of the Forest perambulations made in the previous reign had never been carried into effect . |
| 30 | In his London Shadows Godwin even finds a function for the voyeurs who made it fashionable to tour the slums ‘ and wonder at the peculiarities of that strange land ’ , because ‘ it was partly owing to these visits that some improvements were carried into effect ’ . |