Example sentences of "[be] carry by the [adj] [noun] " 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 Perhaps memories were carried by the very macromolecules themselves ?
3 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 .
4 In the last four bars the melodic line is carried by the two clarinets in unison , and extra grace-notes which do not appear in the original are given to 2nd flute and 2nd oboe with the object of enhancing the suggestion of the chirping and clucking of chickens .
5 A MSS instrument like the one carried by Landsats 1–3 and described earlier is carried by the newer Landsats ; in addition , they have a more modern scanner called the Thematic Mapper or TM .
6 When operating at low speed the freewheeling time of the phase currents is short compared to the total excitation time and for most of the cycle the phase current is carried by the switching transistors .
7 This fact implies that most , if not all , the ASFV RNA polymerase activity present in the infected cell at the early stage was carried by the infecting virus particle(s) ( 7 ) .
8 The ash cloud reached over 15,000 metres in height and was carried by the prevailing winds to the north-east , into Argentina .
9 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 .
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