Example sentences of "[noun sg] carry [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | I swung it round my head , brought it down savagely into the sand , and watched the wind carry off the dust . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In Gaborone , a week before , we had watched the mauled body of a German girl carried into the hospital . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | The blackbird 's whistle carried by the rain ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Cranston bellowed , not caring if his voice carried through the house , out into the enclosed courtyard where craftsmen were working . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're looking pretty glamorous , I must say , ’ he said , his voice carrying across the room . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 … " |
| 21 | A naive bee carried to the feeder from the hive and placed on the food source will circle repeatedly after taking on a load of sugar water as if ‘ studying ’ the source , and yet when she returns a few minutes later she will be unable to choose the correct feeder colour . |
| 22 | The topic : the information carried in the message . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | UNESCO : All this sounds like technology and Western culture carried to the extreme . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He just reached it as a shout carried across the room , |
| 29 | Embraces and handshakes were shared by the marchers before they broke bread and sang hymns at a cross carried to the peace line . |
| 30 | Material carried to the sea by rivers , or transported by glaciers or the wind , experiences some degree of chemical decomposition or physical breakdown prior to being eroded . |