Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] carried [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Elsie Morgan had travelled on the train on her honeymoon in 1920 ; Lady More recalled some of Sir Jasper 's memories ; Colonel Sykes remembered that , as a boy , the engine driver used to allow him to drive the train when he returned to school at the beginning of term ; and Mrs Lucy Hemmings had regularly tested the milk carried by the train for the Creamery .
2 The government of the day carried through the efforts of the most highly trained and intelligent of any group of civil servants in continental Europe .
3 An example often quoted is that of Bernard Bloch , who defined the style of a text as " the message carried by the frequency distributions and transitional probabilities of its linguistic features , especially as they differ from those of the same features in the language as a whole Such definitions appeal to the empiricist , who would like to reduce a subjectively perceived phenomenon to something objective , but they tend to alarm the student of literature .
4 There remains the problem of how DNA ever gets round to doing anything ; that is , of how the information carried in the base sequence is made use of .
5 The topic : the information carried in the message .
6 That it is here at all is an act of faith on the part of the Academy 's management , who were well aware of the political overtones the show carried in the States and has inevitably brought with it to London .
7 This is perhaps surprising in view of the fact that the penalty carried by the section is more severe than the equivalent under section 4 for which there is a power of entry .
8 Slender St. John 's wort ( Hypericum pulchrum ) , for example , was in some areas ‘ the flower carried in the arms of St. Columba ’ .
9 The XPS spectrum consists of a record of the number of electrons ejected as a function of the energy carried by the electron , so the electrons must be detected after an analysis of their energies .
10 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 .
11 Speculation that the rapid decline of many of the world 's amphibians may be due to acid rain has been dampened by a study carried in the Rocky Mountains by the US Fish and Wildlife Service .
12 The plague took two forms , bubonic , transmitted by a bacterium carried by the rat flea , and pneumonic , spread directly by droplet infection in a manner similar to the common cold .
13 A placard carried through the city by Women for Peace was changed overnight , with the addition of two deaths to the total killed since 1969 .
14 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 . ’
15 Speaking to a motion carried by the conference calling for a housing policy review and for ‘ massive public investment ’ in quality homes for rent , he said he was glad Labour was now addressing the problem , for you could not build decent homes without creating a safe environment to live in .
16 Embraces and handshakes were shared by the marchers before they broke bread and sang hymns at a cross carried to the peace line .
17 He just reached it as a shout carried across the room ,
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