Example sentences of "carried [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerry Addams is a man who supports the murder campaign by the I R A terrorists , always defends it and he did n't condemn the killing of the protestants on the Shankhill Road by that I R A man , he carried that I R A man 's body at the funeral , what he said was it was unfortunate that innocent people were killed . |
| 2 | Not because he carried that coffin but because the people on his side are ravaged , their nerve ends are torn raw , and if he |
| 3 | Carmichael states that ‘ the plant is secretly secured in the bodices of the women and in the vests of the men , under the left armpit ’ , while Martin Martin gives an account of a man in Berneray , Harris , who wore it in the neck of his coat to prevent him from seeing visions , and ‘ he never saw any since he first carried that plant about with him ’ . |
| 4 | The report said : ‘ A safety-critical task … was undertaken by one individual who also carried total responsibility for the quality achieved and the installation was not tested until the aircraft was airborne on a passenger carrying flight . ’ |
| 5 | The arms of the cross carried eleven battle honours . |
| 6 | The arms of the cross carried eleven battle honours . |
| 7 | A vertical eruption carried volcanic debris to an altitude of 25km and overall the elevation of Mount St Helens was reduced by 350 m . |
| 8 | The flat , unemotional voice carried complete conviction . |
| 9 | We carried sticky ice cream cones into the large dark room . |
| 10 | Yesterday 's government daily , Magyar Hirlap , carried extensive interviews with two of their leaders , Imre Pozsgay and the Prime Minister , Miklos Nemeth . |
| 11 | Each ship carried seventy-five men , closely packed , with little room to swing sword or axe against roaring trolls high on the gunwales , who walked on men as on a highway and brought steel , thick and thin , hissing down , cleaving and searing . |
| 12 | They rightly feared that they would not be appointed to judicial posts which carried executive responsibilities . |
| 13 | Shnezhana Blagayatch carried eight month old Adisa into the terminal building — but it soon became clear something was wrong . |
| 14 | The way people reacted to APR is perfectly reasonable — many picked the long-period loans that carried low APR rates . |
| 15 | Heterosexism was a theory that was increasingly attractive to lesbian and gay socialists , but in the mid-1980s it still carried little clout in the lesbian and gay communities as a whole . |
| 16 | Shares bounced back yesterday although the rally carried little conviction . |
| 17 | Francis Tidbury received a certain amount of sympathy over the following few days , but the public were so outraged at the brutality involved , it carried little weight . |
| 18 | When , during the 1930s and 1940s , the concern was with the quantity as much as with the quality of population this particular objection carried little weight , although being drawn upon as a reason for not restricting a national scheme of family allowances to the working classes alone . |
| 19 | ‘ Leadership ’ was very restricted to the narrow confines of ritual expression of allegiance and denigration , and carried little weight in other situations . |
| 20 | Professionally , her opinion carried little weight , but she had to side with Tom on the issue out of her concern for Faye , and her familiarity with the artist 's problems . |
| 21 | Hence , the notion of thrift carried little meaning : it was essentially part of a bourgeois economic outlook largely incompatible with proletarian living conditions . |
| 22 | Mr Dakin 's gaunt frame carried little flesh but the grossly thickened fingers bore testimony to a life of toil . |
| 23 | And Brian Keenan 's return after four and a half years of captivity , carried this message for western governments : |
| 24 | David Cooper of Genetic Resources Action International , based in Barcelona , pointed out that it was farmers in West Africa who first noted the resistance of some varieties of cowpea to insects and who nurtured superior varieties that carried this characteristic . |
| 25 | The use of gas , live-effect fires and the creation of domestic hearths carried this idea forward in a positive and congenial way . |
| 26 | Several years ago Chatelaine Magazine carried this piece of advice : |
| 27 | But it was Barth himself who really carried this programme through , insisting that even the doctrines of creation and sin must be grounded in christology , that there is no predestination of God apart from Jesus Christ , that on the cross Jesus himself is the one rejected and abandoned by God , and that both judgement and mercy , reprobation and election , must be seen as worked through in him , All these lines must , so to speak , be carried into the centre where they meet in Jesus Christ himself , and be seen as opening out from him rather than as constituting a distinct frame of reference into which he can be subsequently fitted . |
| 28 | Seniority reform made committee chairmen more beholden to their party and its leaders and other innovations carried this process further . |
| 29 | The Vardar-Morava corridor not only carried traders , it carried cultural influences from the Byzantine Greek world into the Danube basin , most notably the Christian faith as practised by the apostles of the Slavs , Kiril and Metodije . |
| 30 | He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out . |