Example sentences of "carry by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arabella Buckley hissed out the words , but Sven Hjerson thought it very likely they had been carried by the sticky breeze as far as the couple in the prow . |
| 2 | And this would vindicate those who believe that the market 's ills are not going to be solved by tinkering with new issue processes , but rather by a drastic cutback in the overheads — ie , sacking people — being carried by the industry . |
| 3 | Since tusks continue to grow throughout an elephant 's life , the amount of ivory carried by the herds will also increase . |
| 4 | I feel sorry for the French Commando being carried by the two German soldiers . |
| 5 | Traffic carried by the new truck waterway thus increased beyond the volume of goods which had been conveyed along the old cul-de-sac Arun Navigation and it was necessary to extend the waterside storage buildings that had been established at Newbridge . |
| 6 | ‘ Down with the KGB ’ and ‘ Down with Ligachev ’ ( Yegor Ligachev , the conservatives ' leader on the party 's politburo ) were among the milder slogans carried by the demonstrators . |
| 7 | Today 90% of America 's domestic passenger traffic is carried by the eight largest airlines . |
| 8 | The amount of energy carried by the electrons is thought to be spread smoothly across a spectrum . |
| 9 | Although most of the time the energy not carried by the electron was taken away by an everyday massless neutrino , sometimes it was carried by a neutrino that weighed a comparatively large 17 keV . |
| 10 | There were memorable pictures : the beautiful Princess with her long train carried by the small page-boys ; the debonair Prince ; the members of royal families from all over Europe ; the world 's leaders and statesmen ; the small but immaculate figure of Nancy Reagan . |
| 11 | Although some financial assistance is given to team members , which is very welcome , most of the cost is carried by the individual athletes , some of whom are unemployed . |
| 12 | The quantity of water raised from the lower to the higher level will on the average equal that lowered from the higher to the lower level so that there will be practically no loss of water by lockage and as the vessels transported by the lifts are waterborne the weight of the load carried by the dock is always the same whether the vessel be loaded or not and whether the dock contains a vessel or not . |
| 13 | Their common concern was the chaos that would unleash itself on the city if a radioactive cloud from Hinkley Point was carried by the prevailing wind . |
| 14 | There may well have been others on other parts of the island , but unfortunately the heavy curtain of dust and fumes being carried by the wind prevented him getting right round . |
| 15 | At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down . |
| 16 | Trees twenty-four kilometres from the volcano were felled by the blast , and sandy ash carried by the nuees formed deposits over thirty centimetres thick even nine kilometres away . |
| 17 | The ash cloud reached over 15,000 metres in height and was carried by the prevailing winds to the north-east , into Argentina . |
| 18 | Extra current is carried by the conducting parts to offset the lack in the nonconducting ones , and the Hall resistance remains constant . |
| 19 | It may be the spontaneous result of exposing the virus to the general chemical environment of the cell ; or specific enzymes , either carried by the virus or present in the cell , might catalyse the break-up . |
| 20 | Its name derives from the fact that , instead of the eggs being spawned in water and left to their own devices , they are carried by the male wrapped in strings around his legs . |
| 21 | This could have come about by virtue of the fact that at every stage of evolution the original life force ( whatever it may have been and relegated in this book to the pre-life period ) was always carried by the species at the head of the chain , and this was the species which would ultimately become the human race . |
| 22 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |
| 23 | A wand tipped with a pine cone was commonly carried by the god or his worshippers . |
| 24 | Outside , another fierce white explosion of water burst over the side , carried by the screaming banshee of a wind on to the armoured glass plate of the bridge . |
| 25 | Yet Ghose also remarks the continuities of the self , those images of lost homelands carried by the exile that find echoes in new surroundings . |
| 26 | The fifth Group at Vaagsö was to be carried by the destroyer HMS Oribi up the Ulvesund , part of the Indreled Channel , for a landing near Kapelnoes point north of the town , to cut the road in order to prevent reinforcements from North Vaagsö reaching South Vaagsö . |
| 27 | Typically , its costs are a fair expression of the expenses carried by the lender . |
| 28 | The buyer of haulage services ( the customer ) is referred to as the ‘ trader ’ , and the goods carried by the carrier for the trader is the ‘ consignment ’ . |
| 29 | For example , to commemorate a wedding , you could press some of the flowers carried by the bride in her bouquet , and then use them to decorate a sheet of the music played at the wedding . |
| 30 | A placard carried by the child of a Clydeside rent striker in 1915 declared : ‘ My father is fighting in France ; we are fighting the Huns at home . ’ |