Example sentences of "carried [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 :
3 Wounded were being carried through the trees to the shelter of the farm buildings , the medics stopping from time to time to rest , then continued quickly on their way .
4 standard side boards to be carried below the windows of both saloons .
5 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 .
6 ( 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 ’ .
7 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 .
8 The eggs and larvae are carried in the jaws of workers .
9 Slender St. John 's wort ( Hypericum pulchrum ) , for example , was in some areas ‘ the flower carried in the arms of St. Columba ’ .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 What were the goods carried by the railways in such bulk ?
15 Unfortunately for the adventurers , the swords carried by the suits of armour ( one in each gauntlet ) each have a Zone-dispelling effect enchanted on them ; each sword can dispel any one Zone spell on contact , thereafter becoming an enchanted sword with no bonuses or special abilities .
16 More specifically , we can ask what implications are carried by the sentences about the contexts in which they are being used .
17 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 .
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