Example sentences of "carry [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The government of the day carried through the efforts of the most highly trained and intelligent of any group of civil servants in continental Europe . |
| 3 | The culmination comes on the night of the full moon when the sacred tooth of Buddha is carried through the streets of Kandy in a shrine set on top of a gigantic tusker. & illus : |
| 4 | Whilst the Soviets carried through the redistribution of land , the nationalisation of industry and the transfer of political authority to German Communists , so the three Western powers increasingly co-operated in the creation of a federalised , liberal-democratic state in the West . |
| 5 | Proposals were carried for the creation of " broad committees " , " Leagues of Young Chartists " and similar groups to attract those " who will not go all the way with the Minority Movement " . |
| 6 | standard side boards to be carried below the windows of both saloons . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the manifesto was in respect of nationalisation little more than an elaboration of the party 's one-term programme as accepted at the 1937 conference , with the addition of iron and steel , which had been included as a concession to a radical resolution proposed by Ian Mikardo at the 1944 conference and carried against the advice of the platform . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( He ) must have experienced , while looking on the unruffled waters ( of a lake ) that the imagination is carried into the recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Urrah , urrah , urrah ’ : their growling calls carried above the sound of the sea — and all those other bird noises . |
| 11 | the passengers are not being carried in the course of a business of carrying passengers |
| 12 | the passengers are not being carried in the course of a business of carrying passengers |
| 13 | the passengers are not being carried in the course of a business of carrying passengers |
| 14 | the passengers are not being carried in the course of a business of carrying passengers |
| 15 | Fifty years after the ‘ Souldier 's ’ Bible had been carried in the pockets of the Roundheads to inspire them at Marston Moor and Naseby , appeared a reprint with some additions and alterations . |
| 16 | The eggs and larvae are carried in the jaws of workers . |
| 17 | Slender St. John 's wort ( Hypericum pulchrum ) , for example , was in some areas ‘ the flower carried in the arms of St. Columba ’ . |
| 18 | For a start , there is growing public concern about the effects of toxocariasis , the disease transmitted by the roundworm Toxocara canis , carried in the faeces of un-wormed dogs . |
| 19 | Also being treated is a twenty-one year old woman who was travelling in the stolen car , and was apparently carried from the scene of the accident by the car 's driver . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 22 | She had been carried to the back of the crowd . |
| 23 | Plumer 's preparations for the action at Messines , ‘ methodical and patient ’ , were in John Buchan 's words ‘ carried to the pitch of genius ’ . |
| 24 | Blindly we are carried to the abyss of the 21st century without a philosophical air bag to spring out and cushion us on impact . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They watched as the casket was carried to the mouth of the tomb . |
| 27 | Because over-heating the gilding will ruin the finish , this stage is not carried to the extent of driving off every trace of mercury , so some evidence of the plating technique is left . |
| 28 | Thus the 32 over-life-sized bronze head of Augustus found at Meroë ( Sudan ) was detached from its body by Meroitic tribesmen raiding Roman camps in upper Egypt , carried to the site of a temple of victory , and deliberately buried beneath the steps leading into the temple . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |