Example sentences of "[noun sg] carry [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thompson does not say here , in terms , that dialectical materialism has its answer , the class struggle carried to the extreme of revolution — unless we are to read ‘ revolutionising practice ’ as implying it , while sounding something less and , therefore , less disturbing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The AVHRR sensor carried by the NOAA satellites has a visible and a short-wave infrared band , and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington , DC produces global vegetation maps on a routine basis using the ratio transform outlined above . |
| 4 | Having attempted to define the campaign 's agenda on the basis of " family values " , Bush was also severely embarrassed by a front page story carried in the New York Post on Aug. 11 which alleged that he had had an extra-marital affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald , a former personal assistant and a current protocol officer in the State Department . |
| 5 | Sand and rock carried by the water helped to erode the limestone further and to chisel out cave passages and chambers in areas where the rock was particularly weak . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I swung it round my head , brought it down savagely into the sand , and watched the wind carry off the dust . |
| 8 | In either case , it will be necessary to attach a small microphone somewhere below the child 's chin and to provide some arrangement for the child to carry around the radio transmitter or the small tape recorder . |
| 9 | In Gaborone , a week before , we had watched the mauled body of a German girl carried into the hospital . |
| 10 | This must be settled quite soon after the birth , for the christened child carries for the whole of its life a record of its parents ' religious belief . |
| 11 | Siemens AG is disputing a politically-sensitive article carried in The Wall Street Journal Europe on February 16 , which claims that , for the first time , a top Siemens manager , Heinrich von Pierer , said he was looking for a strategic partner for ailing Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG ( CI No 2,117 ) : Pierer allegedly stated that he was not interested in a ‘ one-sided partnership ’ , rather in one that involved ‘ real co-operation ’ ; according to Computerwoche , Siemens denied any claim that it was seeking shelter for Siemens Nixdorf under the umbrella of Japanese or US competitors , ‘ like the other three European computer firms ’ ; the Journal 's London office says the paper is sticking by its story . |
| 12 | Siemens AG is disputing a politically-sensitive article carried in The Wall Street Journal Europe on February 16 , which claims that , for the first time , a top Siemens manager , Heinrich von Pierer , said he was looking for a strategic partner for ailing Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG : Pierer allegedly stated that he was not interested in a ‘ one-sided partnership ’ , rather in one that involved ‘ real co-operation ’ ; according to Computerwoche , Siemens denied any claim that it was seeking shelter for Siemens Nixdorf under the umbrella of Japanese or US competitors , ‘ like the other three European computer firms ’ ; the Journal 's London office says the paper is sticking by its story . |
| 13 | No real difference from alienation , then ; and given that the outcome whether of alienation or estrangement is to be the class war carried to the point of revolution and expropriation , perhaps the simple understanding is good enough . |
| 14 | Therefore eqn ( 10.1a ) needs to be modified in the presence of such waves , even though space–time is empty : where is the stress-energy tensor carried by the waves . |
| 15 | Studies concerning the characterization of the regulatory defect carried by the MHC class II negative B-cell lymphoma RJ2.2.5 mutant were previously presented and the segregation pattern of somatic cell hybrids obtained by fusion of the mutant cells with mouse spleen B-cells was reported ( 13,14 ) . |
| 16 | In preparation for the Freedom space station , an array of experiments were performed in Space Lab , the laboratory module carried in the shuttle 's cargo bay , on two fish , four frogs , 180 hornets , 7,600 flies and 30 fertilized chicken eggs . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When , at last , the reformed corporation carried through the enclosure in 1845 , and the town could burst outwards , the damage had been done ( Fig. 14 ) . |
| 20 | The blackbird 's whistle carried by the rain ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Since tusks continue to grow throughout an elephant 's life , the amount of ivory carried by the herds will also increase . |
| 24 | The note of anger carried to the groups and couples passing by , provoking amusement and raised eyebrows . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Cranston bellowed , not caring if his voice carried through the house , out into the enclosed courtyard where craftsmen were working . |
| 27 | That system was both perceived and expected to perform three related functions : through election to the House of Commons it was expected to produce a government ; through a purportedly democratic franchise and mode of election , it was expected to confer legitimacy upon the government to govern , subject to the approval of Parliament ; and , through facilitating a choice between parties propounding specific programs , it was expected to influence public policy , the party in government carrying through the promises embodies in its election manifesto . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're looking pretty glamorous , I must say , ’ he said , his voice carrying across the room . |
| 29 | It was nevertheless US equipment that was most in the news , after the struggle in Congress to carry through the sale of F-15 Eagles to Saudi Arabia in the face of resolute opposition from Israel and its supporters in the American legislature . |
| 30 | Cecil made it quite clear that in his opinion , at least , the " strangers " in charge of the works were pretending to act simply and fairly towards the society but were thought to be dealing more for their own " private lucre " than for the benefit of the society , " … this despite diverse great sums of money due by them for rent having been remitted for their better encouragement to carry on the work … " |