Example sentences of "carry by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports were carried by Agence-France Presse on May 1 of heavy fighting around Saa'da involving Moslem tribes opposed to unity , and by the UK newspaper the Independent on May 12 suggesting that Saudi Arabia was fomenting this resistance to hold up the unity process [ but see p. 37266 for official Saudi position welcoming unification ] . |
| 2 | Start by looking at the stocks carried by builders ' merchants in your area . |
| 3 | In the Middle Ages goods were generally carried by pack-horse rather than waggons so some rivers and streams were crossed by such bridges , only 3ft wide . |
| 4 | One theory is that they were carried by ice sheets . |
| 5 | In 1856 the quantity of coal carried by rail was 50 million tons , compared with 13 million tons of other minerals and 32 million tons of general merchandise . |
| 6 | By 1861 , 100,000 tons of fish was being carried by rail in England and Wales . |
| 7 | Thereafter , with the rise of road transport , there was a slow , steady , and continuing decline in the amount of freight carried by rail . |
| 8 | Although they were well placed for chalk , all other commodities had to be carried by rail or barge up-river to the works . |
| 9 | ‘ It is absolutely crazy to have 9,000 tonnes of limestone a week going by road when the Government is offering grants to try to ensure that freight is carried by rail . |
| 10 | A similarly high proportion of cases ( 19 per cent. ) in which weapons were carried by defendants was found in the Scottish survey . |
| 11 | Very often , the computing power of the PCs carried by members of the IAEA team was significantly greater than their mainframe computers . |
| 12 | Moreover , recent work has shown that much of the heat energy in the seas of the North Atlantic ( every square kilometre of which gives off as much energy as a nuclear power station and hence influences our weather ) is absorbed from sunlight in the tropical Pacific and is carried by ocean currents through the Drake Passage and up into the Atlantic . |
| 13 | The oil spilt from the Braer was unusually light and toxic , and this , combined with fierce storms which mixed it into the seawater and caused it combine to form clumps with fine particles churned up by the waves , meant that rather than floating to the surface , as is normal with spilt crude oil , it was carried by ocean currents far from the spill site and later redeposited in deep " sumps " on the seabed . |
| 14 | Those who fly in are carried by escalator down to a railway platform . |
| 15 | Many of the banners carried by demonstrations were specifically aimed at the anti-immigration policies advocated by the National Front . |
| 16 | The weapon is carried by Engineers either on horseback or in one of the Engineers School 's War Wagons . |
| 17 | This is because the additional semantic traits normally carried by mare are already inferable from the rest of the sentence , and are to that degree superfluous . |
| 18 | One of the most exciting areas will be where computer packages and the information carried by ISDN 's signalling facilities interact . |
| 19 | Carrying a knife on the offchance of being attacked , and weapons carried by dance hall security guards have been held not to be a reasonable excuse . |
| 20 | Surrey managers said that many elderly day patients who would normally be carried by non-emergency crews have had to be readmitted to hospital in the past three months . |
| 21 | They perpetuate the great romances and adventure stories of the Middle Ages , setting down in simple and unadorned sentences the songs and tales formerly carried by minstrel and troubadour ; tales of the Seven Champions of Christendom , the great Bevis of Southampton ( twice quoted above ) , with his steed Arundel and his invincible sword Morglay , Arthur and his company of the Round Table . |
| 22 | His shield and spear show graphically the arms carried by El Cid 's armies . |
| 23 | The campaign works indirectly by rumour to frighten people , and whatever they can or ca n't prove the threat is carried by word of mouth and claimants run for cover . |
| 24 | Leishmania braziliensis is carried by sandflies . |
| 25 | 1.16 Much has been written on ‘ English across the curriculum ’ , a phrase which , for some , conjures up an unacceptable vision of English reduced to a service subject , and for others an equally unacceptable vision of subject specialists burdened with responsibilities that should rightly be carried by teachers of English . |
| 26 | The former Soviet Union made a similar pledge to destroy tactical nuclear weapons , a responsibility now carried by Russia . |
| 27 | For credit managers , most of the Infocheck services are already available , Jordans ' will be on Prestel in the near future and Prestel also has the ability , not currently carried by Telecom Gold , to interrogate the BT Directory Enquiry phone- base . |
| 28 | By 2,000 BC they had reached the eastern Mediterranean , probably carried by merchants and travellers down the prehistoric trade routes which crossed the Middle East . |
| 29 | We do n't really know a lot about how much sediment load they 've been carrying because we have been measuring the amount of material being carried by Sussex rivers for the last decade to two decades , so our level of information is very , very low . |
| 30 | A hammer carried by Carrington in his canvas bag of tools soon tapped them into a loosened position . |