Example sentences of "carries [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.

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1 This supports a thick earthen plate which forms the ceiling of the cellar and carries above it the central core of the nest with its tiers of nurseries , fungus gardens , food stores and , of course , the royal chambers where the king and queen live .
2 Being a combat sport karate carries with it the risk of injury and the more you compete , the more likely you are to suffer injury .
3 The demand for elegance carries with it the requirement to fit in with existing furniture and although talking points can be useful , a table surrounded by a set of such chairs could be a positive eyesore .
4 The notion of marginality carries with it the sense of dualism , since it implies being on the boundaries of urban and rural society , but not integrated into either .
5 Placed next to each other , the documents are both a territorial and a political contradiction ; one is proof of the existence of Israel , the other carries with it the dream of Palestine .
6 The accolade of membership of NACAB carries with it the advantages of status and support for a bureau .
7 This shift seems to have occurred as many in the business community observe what they interpret as the collapse of social order in American cities ; a collapse , which carries with it the value systems underpinning the democratic state .
8 Partnership bureaucratised carries with it the seeds of its own corruption .
9 Also , it costs Britain each year £3 million to import enough human blood , mainly from the United States , for factor VIII extraction and this blood carries with it the risk of disease .
10 This means , in effect , that each Alu sequence that inserts itself into the chromosomes carries with it the means to get out again and reinsert itself somewhere else .
11 Thus expanded negative reproduction carries with it the seeds of revolution .
12 For many , investment business activity carries with it the very real threat of punitive action , whether arising from failure to comply properly with the regulations or , worse still , from committing the criminal offence of conducting investment business without being authorised at all .
13 The trouble with the ‘ functional ’ approach , however , is that it carries with it the risk that you will omit general considerations such as overall objectives and strategy .
14 We are strongly motivated by the need for love , which always carries with it the risk of rejection and withdrawal of that love .
15 On the other hand , its perceived opposite , peacefulness , carries with it the negatively valued connotations of being passive and inert ( qualities which furthermore are associated with females ) .
16 There is a strong sense of violence attached to the notion of ta'kwanya ; for this category of creative , cultural capability is comprised of poisonous forces and carries with it the idea of predation ( see Overing 1986a ) .
17 Acceptance of the criterion of examinability affects both the content and form of the knowledge presented but carries with it the guarantee of high status .
18 The denial of naturalism carries with it the recognition of the possibility of an epistemology which is prior to all of the special sciences , and which can make no use of general or particular facts about nature .
19 It is only if we are in the grip of a mistaken conception of truth that the mere possibility of a belief being mistaken carries with it the threat of scepticism ; it is an indication that the sceptic 's conception of truth is not ours that his arguments do not prompt an epistemic crisis .
20 Raising questions about whether we are able to know the nature of reality carries with it the scientific baggage involved in our substantive conception of truth .
21 My right to the first move at chess carries with it the duty to continue with the game , and so on .
22 His abolition of the subject carries with it the demise of the individual as the locus of knowledge and agency , and places him in a position where , as we saw , there can be no question of compromise with individualism .
23 This theory carries with it the implication that the cyclostome characters mentioned above were not part of the history of gnathostomes but were instead specializations restricted to lampreys and hagfishes .
24 Now that Novell has bought Unix from AT&T , all the incompatible versions of Unix will have to stop fighting each other and start fighting their rivals , because this version carries with it the best argument yet — a box with the word Novell on it .
25 The fourth point is to check whether your choice of a particular subject calls for any prior knowledge or qualification ; or whether it carries with it the obligation to study a related subject .
26 Not merely is the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal hardly the most suitable tribunal to determine complex questions of civil law — the pressures on the court 's time aside — but the very fact that this is the Criminal Division carries with it the consequence that whatever we decide can not be the subject of appeal : see section 33 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 .
27 But while delegation is a prerequisite of corporate efficiency , it also carries with it the risk , common to all agency relationships , that the managers will act in their own interests at the expense of the shareholders , thereby reducing the expected gains , not only for the shareholders , but also for society as a whole .
28 But it carries with it the usual problem associated with rapid and anonymous observations , viz. lack of information on the social identity of the speaker .
29 This stronger sense of learning also carries with it the idea that ultimately the student is able to evaluate it for him or herself , and form a personal view about its validity ( by reading the relevant articles , by listening to the different views of the authorities on the topic , and perhaps by assisting in a clinical trial ) .
30 It is beginning to be recognised that proficiency in more than one language often carries with it the need to be what one might term ‘ crosslingual ’ , that is , able to generate connections across languages rather than only using them independently of each other .
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