Example sentences of "[was/were] carried [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Republican tradition lasted into the Empire : ancestor portraits were carried at the funerals of early imperial princes and notables , and both the imperial family and the surviving nobility continued to stress , and indeed enhance , their origins and virtues . |
| 2 | An alternative is that the pipes were carried across the valleys from higher ground on the far side by means of high ( and now completely vanished ) aqueducts . |
| 3 | The changes were carried into the Companies Act 1989 and are now known as the ‘ New Settlement ’ . |
| 4 | The march was headline news : " Women overcome terrorist attack " and banners calling for " Peace and Work " and " Forward Women — the fight is on " were carried by the marchers . |
| 5 | I can only remember listening as a child 's body was carried down the stairs of my husband 's house , and the way the moon came into my kitchen as I listened . |
| 6 | The Thames marshes ensured that the ague was carried into the courts of kings , who were less resistant to it than the hardy fen men . |
| 7 | The Madonna and Child probably do carry the symbolic meaning which he attributes to them ; but if this is so then it is one which much earlier was carried by the representations of Isis nursing Horus , or by the many-breasted Diana of Ephesus , herself a lineal descendant of Palaeolithic figurines like the Venus of Willendorf . |