Example sentences of "carry [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Okun ( 1975 ) characterized this sort of trade-off as a ‘ leaky bucket ’ , which lost some of its contents ( disincentive effects and administration costs ) when used to carry income from the rich to the poor . |
2 | But possibly the most satisfying task for the Hercules and its crew is to carry aid to the needy . |
3 | The VCR also converts the colour coding system from NTSC to PAL , by changing the frequency at which the colour information is carried piggyback on the black and white information . |
4 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
5 | An aquifer may therefore carry water from a humid area to a dry one , even a desert . |
6 | A project for a 3000 km pipeline to carry gas from the Western Amazon jungle to the industrial south east is under consideration . |
7 | As a kind of amalgam of a Ministry of Justice ( dealing with the rights of the individual ) and a Department of the Interior ( responsible for internal order and the integrity of the state ) , it would hardly be surprising for the Home Office to show symptoms of schizophrenia ; it controls immigration , prisons , and drug abuse , for example , in addition to carrying responsibility for the Metropolitan Police and the Special Branch , and all these activities depend heavily on collecting and using personal information . |
8 | In particular , he frames the question in terms of carrying income from the top 5 per cent of US families in 1974 ( average income $45 000 per annum ) to the bottom 20 per cent ( average income $28 000 ) . |
9 | However , the Lancaster Diocesan Catholic Voice should really be carrying news about the Catholic Church in our own diocese . |
10 | Unfortunately for this theory , the genes carrying tail-reduction in the two cases are quite different , and the Manx and the Bobtail bear only a superficial resemblance to one another . |
11 | The periantarctic islands have many permanent or seasonal streams , spring-fed and carrying run-off from the peaty vegetation throughout the year . |
12 | They then look at the average momentum particles carry transverse to the main direction of the jet : a higher transverse momentum means that the jet is more spread out . |
13 | For example , the protein haemoglobin carries oxygen in the red blood cells , and insulin , another protein , is made in particular cells in the pancreas . |
14 | However illuminating thought experiments may be , nothing carries conviction like an actual series of measurements made in a real-life laboratory . |