Example sentences of "carry the [adj] [noun] of " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They provide the bulk of the expertise , and carry the biggest amount of responsibility , in respect of these aspects of the marketing mix . |
| 6 | To make changes slowly , and carry the maximum number of people with you . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |