Example sentences of "[noun sg] carry by 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 ) .
6 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 .
7 The blackbird 's whistle carried by the rain ?
8 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 . ’
9 Since tusks continue to grow throughout an elephant 's life , the amount of ivory carried by the herds will also increase .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 I could n't see the head of the column , only the swinging lantern carried by the leader .
15 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 .
16 The amount of energy carried by the electrons is thought to be spread smoothly across a spectrum .
17 It was later found that Mr McCubbin died , not from the shots , but from a tiny piece of wire carried by the pellets , which fatally punctured his lung .
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