Example sentences of "[conj] carry [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 More and more of us are letting the conservatory fill up with pots , urns and tubs in winter , keeping the plants safe from the cold until May , when they can be rolled out on to the terrace , wheeled on to the patio or carried to the paved squares on the lawn where they will put on a show all summer long .
2 Charles Briant had spoken in his fine voice that carried to the very edge of the crowd , telling the people of Swansea how talented and gifted was Angharad Morgan .
3 Although every ideology forms its own criteria and language of evaluation , it is doubly difficult to be discriminating and to carry through a particular form of objectivity when reading accounts of conservation in socialist or ‘ socialist ’ countries .
4 Edward I also became involved with the Scots by claiming the right of arbitration between the rivals for the Scottish throne , at the end of 1290 , and he installed a puppet government in the lowlands of Scotland and carried off the traditional coronation stone from Scone , transporting it to Westminster .
5 I was horn in March 1947 , at the peak of the Bulge : more babies horn that month than ever before or after , and carried through the terrible winter of 1946–47 .
6 The danger of serious conflict occurring on the border was anticipated in a motion proposed by the United States and carried in the General Assembly in 1949 authorising UNCOK to observe developments on the border and to report back on clashes that could give rise to war .
7 The trainee , together with the in-bureau tutor , should work out and carry through a tailor-made course of study .
8 Something has been stealing the farmers ' chickens and carrying off the young sheep from the hills .
9 Men were also in demand for fetching and carrying At a suitable moment after the meal a plate or basket was passed round each table and the guests put in their subscriptions .
10 For it was of course Thatcher from the right , and not the left , who seized the initiative in attempting to break the stalemate of class forces and carry through a radical restructuring of the British social formation .
11 If they were held at bay longer than they anticipated and carried into the final day , it only seemed a stay of execution for the West Indies .
12 And certainly precision — unless carried to the ultimate degree , as in Madame Saint-Ange 's Livre de Cuisine or Julia Child 's Mastering the Art of French Cooking — can be more misleading than vagueness .
13 As though carried by a mighty flood to its remote hilltop , surrounded by trees , and then abandoned as the water receded , the barrow is an almost alien presence .
14 As a result the vector is seen to rotate through an angle φ which is the separation in longitude between A and B. In general the rotation of a local vector when carried round a closed path on any two-dimensional surface is given by the expression which is easily checked for the route discussed .
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