Example sentences of "[being] carry [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To hell with the risk , I had three minutes to create an impact ( being carried off on a stretcher should do it ) . |
| 2 | Father-of-three Gordon Corps , 62 , collapsed at 11,500ft on a mountain and died as he was being carried down to a base camp . |
| 3 | I felt a right idiot , being carried out on a stretcher , everybody gawping at me . |
| 4 | Two UN doctors who got into the area recently reported that amputations were being carried out with a carpenter 's saw and no anaesthetic or antibiotics . |
| 5 | The difficulty with standard significance tests is that their valid and effective use usually depends on the way the data are approached — for example whether the research has been designed with a specific hypothesis in mind or a less focused post hoc analysis is being carried out with a view to revealing underlying patterns . |
| 6 | There is a genuine exchange , a genuine sale and a genuine investment company , the whole transaction being carried out in a way which the Act , in express terms , provides for . |
| 7 | An experiment using silicic acid , and being carried out in a laboratory 5 metres away through a brick wall , affected the normal pattern of salt crystals being observed in Dr Reid 's laboratory . |
| 8 | He is backed by Adrian Sinfield , professor of social policy at Edinburgh University , whose concern is that attacks on the welfare state are being carried out in a climate of increasing economic inequality and worsening poverty . |
| 9 | They went on to suggest that where complex insider activities are being carried out in a sub-language designed to exclude the uninformed , the best ethnography would probably be carried out by the insider/ethnographer . |
| 10 | They insisted on me going up there to see this chap who was supposed to have proof of a fiddle being carried out by a bunch of telephone operators at one particular exchange . |
| 11 | Leonora lay rigid in his arms , resentful of being carried about like a bundle of laundry . |
| 12 | It was the Regent Street of Cairo ; except that in Regent Street you would not see a man walking by with a stuffed crocodile on his head or a pig being carried by in a cage . |