Example sentences of "carry the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Another , quite separate , reason why the idea of watertight categories of psychosis has never seemed very plausible to psychologists stems from the difficulty of defining the outer boundaries of insanity and the existence of so-called ‘ borderline ’ disorders that carry the overall flavour of schizophrenia or manic-depression , but which are not severe enough to meet the diagnostic criteria for either . |
| 32 | ‘ As the people with ultimate authority for saying when the campaign ends and when it resumes , this small group carry the supreme load of guilt for all the grief and tears and heartbreak which their campaign has caused . |
| 33 | It generally consists of the temporal and modal exponents of the verb , which are ‘ the transitional element par excellence : They carry the lowest degree of CD within the non-theme and are the transition proper ’ ( Firbas , 1986 : 54 ) . |
| 34 | These particles are virtual particles like the particles that carry the gravitational force of the sun : unlike real particles , they can not be observed directly with a particle detector . |
| 35 | They provide the bulk of the expertise , and carry the biggest amount of responsibility , in respect of these aspects of the marketing mix . |
| 36 | To make changes slowly , and carry the maximum number of people with you . ’ |
| 37 | Although those who work with old people will have observed for themselves that in this group there are a significant number of male carers , the implications have not been fully drawn out because so many old disabled people at home alone are women and so many younger women carry the main burden of informal care at home . |
| 38 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |
| 39 | The radio reported that the air transporter , carrying the Supreme Leader of the Nicaean Federation , had landed . |
| 40 | Verses 1–20 : the Kohathites are responsible for carrying the sacred objects of the sanctuary after the priests have dismantled and covered them . |
| 41 | Outside a wind had sprung up , gently moaning through the trees , carrying the distant shrieks of the night creatures from the dark forest beyond the walls . |
| 42 | Shortly after the breakfast party , perhaps the same evening , perhaps the next morning , the bridegroom 's mother would make her way to the home of the bride carrying the first load of treasure . |
| 43 | Two of the musicians , carrying the usual cans of Gold Label , pop their heads in and shout : ‘ Break a leg , gang . ’ |
| 44 | A second exhibition of Bacon 's paintings , carrying the official stamp of the British Council and curated by David Sylvester for the Comune of Venice and the Biennale , opens at the Museo Correr in June . |
| 45 | Large as icebergs they drifted off to the north carrying the remaining followers of the Witch King . |
| 46 | He says : ‘ In the current recession , which is biting further and further into the North-East , small businesses feel that they are carrying the main thrust of the banking community 's claw back of their lending . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ This appears to be miniature cricket bat , ’ he said , ‘ carrying the miniature signatures of a pygmy team . |
| 48 | One minute he was just standing there — and the next instant he suddenly grabbed hold of Laura , quickly scooping her tall , slender body up into his arms before carrying the struggling figure of the girl towards his large limousine . |
| 49 | Those carrying the disabling genes of schizophrenia , manic depression and low intelligence may constitute ten more per cent of the US or European population . |
| 50 | By 31 August , all Russian troops emerging from the forest did so carrying the white flag of surrender on poles and rifles . |
| 51 | Medieval divines pictured Cain carrying the meagre offering of a bunch of thorn sticks . |
| 52 | I carry on munching through my toast , and since there 's no point carrying the last dregs of marmalade to wherever it is we 're going , I scrape an inch-thick layer out of the jar and ask through a mouthful of carbon where the landlord lives . |
| 53 | Moreover , in cases where single stranded DNA is desired from PCR TM II , the host cells must be infected by a helper phage and the yield of a single stranded DNA preparation is much lower than that from filamentous bacteriophage vectors carrying the same segment of foreign DNA ( 4 ) . |
| 54 | He came wearing his purple confessor 's stole and carrying the little box of sacred oils for the anointing of the dying . |
| 55 | Of course anyone who has ever attended one of these checks knows that the vehicle examiners , with practised eyes , pull into the checks those lorries carrying the tell-tale signs of overloading or defects . |
| 56 | Instead of carrying the miserable burden of mass unemployment , we could be investing in new technology and in new skills , training and retraining our talented people to face a fiercely competitive world : instead of our education system declining and our health service fracturing , we could be building high-quality public services which extend security and opportunity to every family in the land ; instead of a society diminished by the violence and dishonesty of crime , we could be building strong communities which provided opportunity as well as protection for every citizen . |
| 57 | However , Randall ( with more concern for principled commercial independence than for the economic logic of external benefits ) refused to ask for such a subvention from central reserve funds for his London Board ( which carried the greatest burden of standardisation expenditure ) . |
| 58 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 59 | The 24-times capped Herioter has noticed an alarming trend developing in the way a match which will carried the added prize of the Calcutta Cup is portrayed . |
| 60 | The twelfth century examples are simple and tall with nave , single aisles , three apses carried the full height of the building and a tall cupola covering the crossing supported on six piers . |