Example sentences of "be carry by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More specifically , we can ask what implications are carried by the sentences about the contexts in which they are being used . |
| 2 | Its name derives from the fact that , instead of the eggs being spawned in water and left to their own devices , they are carried by the male wrapped in strings around his legs . |
| 3 | The Captain decided not to switch on his engines until they were further away ; he was content to let the vessel be carried by the tide . |
| 4 | The importance of information about steady-state values should be emphasised , as well as the need for these values to be carried by the patient at all times . |
| 5 | The loss would then be carried by the person responsible for the defect . |
| 6 | The journey is a slow one for the tiny fish do little more than allow themselves to be carried by the river current . |
| 7 | The day will be carried by the side which holds out longest . |
| 8 | ‘ If a video producer records live sound when filming , then the ‘ storyline ’ is bound to be carried by the commentary and you end up with a talk illustrated by pictures . |
| 9 | In hard rock the edge soon became dull , and the drilling of one sufficient hole could require the use of quite a few of these drills which had to be carried by the miner to his place of work , even though that might entail climbing hundreds of feet of pit ladder . |
| 10 | The fifth Group at Vaagsö was to be carried by the destroyer HMS Oribi up the Ulvesund , part of the Indreled Channel , for a landing near Kapelnoes point north of the town , to cut the road in order to prevent reinforcements from North Vaagsö reaching South Vaagsö . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These included two Mae Wests from Don Bennett 's Halifax , a section of one of the specially-adapted naval mines that were carried by the Halifaxes , various flying helmets , a leather flying suit and a rudder from Lancaster L7572 ‘ L ’ . |
| 13 | A fluid particle with positive v is being carried by the turbulence in the positive y-direction . |
| 14 | Twenty paces or so beyond the shed the road twisted out of sight , and it was from that direction the smell of burning was being carried by the breeze . |
| 15 | There may well have been others on other parts of the island , but unfortunately the heavy curtain of dust and fumes being carried by the wind prevented him getting right round . |
| 16 | And this would vindicate those who believe that the market 's ills are not going to be solved by tinkering with new issue processes , but rather by a drastic cutback in the overheads — ie , sacking people — being carried by the industry . |
| 17 | It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully . |
| 18 | We have seen how when the tonic syllable is followed by a tail the tone is carried by the tonic plus tail together in such a way that in some cases practically no pitch movement is detectable on the tonic syllable itself . |
| 19 | Extra current is carried by the conducting parts to offset the lack in the nonconducting ones , and the Hall resistance remains constant . |
| 20 | Before doing this , another general statement will be made ( and will also need further explanation ) : intonation is carried by the tone-unit . |
| 21 | Up to twenty five percent of all water that drains off the Earth , is carried by the Amazon . |
| 22 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |
| 23 | Now the authority of the community was carried by the Sanhedrin they brought him to what is what they accepted as a trial erm they 'd assessed that something was going against their structures , and as I 've already said religious life was the most important thing he 'd broken it seems a religious law and the council the court the gathering together of the seventy members of the Sanhedrin were going to in a serious sort of way check this out , check this accusation out . |
| 24 | The oil was carried by the tide onto the shore . |
| 25 | At his funeral his coffin was carried by the Headington Quarry morris men in morris rig . |
| 26 | 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 . |