Example sentences of "carry the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is grade 2 , and especially grade 3 , obesity , which carry the greatest risk to health . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Neither Africa nor the donors carry the prime responsibility for this . |
| 5 | The abuse rises to a crescendo twice a day , at 7.30am and 4.30pm , when double-decker buses carry the new recruits to and from work , their faces covered with balaclavas and newspapers in order to conceal their identities . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They provide the bulk of the expertise , and carry the biggest amount of responsibility , in respect of these aspects of the marketing mix . |
| 9 | In the back streets that lead towards Victor 's place I carry the dead weight in my carrier bag , and I feel rootless . |
| 10 | To make changes slowly , and carry the maximum number of people with you . ’ |
| 11 | Sixty per cent carry the main responsibility for supporting the disabled or elderly person compared with only 46 per cent of male carers , while the latter are more likely to play a role which is ancillary to another main carer — 42 per cent compared with 31 per cent of female carers ( Evandron , 1990 , p. 15 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |