Example sentences of "[was/were] carry [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louis XIV duly carried out the letter of the Treaty of Utrecht by forcing the self-styled James III to move into Lorraine , technically a separate province , 100 miles [ 160 km ] from Paris , but James II 's widow still resided at St Germain , a centre for Jacobite intrigue , from which messages were carried to England by French diplomatic couriers . |
| 2 | Nothing in the Report of Professor L. C. B. Gower on Review of Investor Protection ( 1984 ) ( Cmnd. 9125 ) , the recommendations of which were carried into effect by the Act of 1986 , elucidates why the distinction was made . |
| 3 | Nor can there be much doubt that when they were in residence at Woodstock these supplies were called upon , and were carried in carts along the wide green track now called Dornford Lane . |
| 4 | The case and quiver were carried by means of the bandoleer which is decorated with red and dark blue stroud , otter fur and small triangles of beadwork . |
| 5 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |
| 6 | brought together into indissoluble union our Western theory of Darwin and that strange doctrine of metempsychosis which was carried to Japan with Buddhism … |
| 7 | Alhred 's power-base may have been in the lower Tyne , for the body of his son , Osred , was carried to Tynemouth to be buried in the monastery there . |
| 8 | The work was carried to completion by one of his leading research assistants , Martin Gilbert . |
| 9 | Ruza , who was carried to safety by newsmen , may lose her arm . |
| 10 | His embalmed body was carried to Dunfermline for burial , but at his own request his heart had been removed by a trusted comrade-in-arms , Sir James Douglas , to be taken on Crusade . |
| 11 | In all , 122,243 tonnes out of a total of 149,990 tonnes of foodstuffs of all kinds was carried into Paris by rail . |
| 12 | That change was carried into effect on I July 1948 and remains the basis for hospital finance today . |
| 13 | Here , instead of the normal Roman practice of providing a gradual fall of the water channel — Vitruvius stated that a fall of 6 inches for every 100 feet was considered desirable — the water was carried under pressure across the broad valley . |
| 14 | The play was a two-hander , which meant that it was carried from beginning to end by the two stars . |
| 15 | The heated air passed under the mosaic floor and was carried by flues to the walls . |
| 16 | Amid further merriment it was carried in triumph down the second flight of stairs , through the kitchen and into the boudoir where Franca had already cleared a place for it . |
| 17 | The vote was carried against Stokes by a majority of well over two to one ; but Noel-Baker later argued in a letter to Attlee that ‘ the overwhelming majority of the Constituency Party delegates were against ‘ Fight for Freedom ’ and Vansittartism' . |