Example sentences of "carry the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The easiest time to see the bats ' creches is at night , for the females do not carry the unnecessary load of a baby when they fly out to hunt .
2 THERE is a cosmopolitan look to the team that will carry the Canadian flag at the Hong Kong Sevens on April 4 and 5 .
3 If properly encouraged , they could carry the small amount of pollen necessary for fertilisation and place it on the exact spot in the female flower where it was required .
4 The creamy-textured shower mousse , which contains , syndets , aloe , ispaghul and ginseng , has a dermatological cleanser to combat dryness as it cleanses , while the deodorant anti-perspirant , in an ozone-friendly spray , blends farnesol , aluminium salts and extracts of sage and liquorice to ensure that you will carry the great feeling from those first precious moments in the bathroom with you throughout the longest of days .
5 A similar ramp will lead down from this embankment , to pass beneath the bridge that will carry the new road over the East Coast Main Line railway .
6 Central Office must carry the good news from Aix to Ghent ! ’
7 The rising generation of students were more optimistic about the future and did not carry the emotional burdens of the Cultural Revolution .
8 The received waves are called radar echoes and they can carry the various categories of information that can be borne by any em wave , as outlined in section 3.1.2 , though planetary temperatures can not normally be extracted by radar .
9 Of the total , $1 billion will be used to upgrade Time Warner 's cable-TV systems — with some 7m subscribers , America 's second-biggest — so they can carry the full range of whizzy ‘ multimedia ’ services .
10 The grades will carry the full weight of the system already in force for classical instruments and will enable students to follow a more structured path through to diploma level .
11 They do not carry the double-edged sword of apparent free choice and intellectual ability , to understand or cogitate upon their place within the scheme of things .
12 The Financial Times of June 29 wrote : " There is still a sense of illegality , or at least doubtful legality , about Denmark 's 11 partners going ahead with ratifying the Maastricht Treaty on political and monetary union , when the Treaty of Rome [ establishing the European Economic Community in 1957 ] says that constitutional revisions must carry the unanimous assent of all EC states .
13 Any official protest could carry the considerable clout of State President Eduard Shevardnadze , the powerful former Soviet Foreign Minister .
14 An extrajudicial offer , even if backed up with assertions that it will not be improved upon , does not carry the same penalty in expenses and the pursuer and his advisers , confident of success , will not be put at risk on expenses by such an offer .
15 No , they do n't all carry I mean , you do n't all carry the same weight in gallops .
16 That is , it assumes that the London-to-Penzance train will carry the same number of passengers all the way from London to Penzance .
17 Devilish-sounding fixes , such as a rule that all company cars must carry the corporate logo in letters two feet high , would involve more government snooping than the problem is worth .
18 A word can carry the whole meaning of a question e.g. " opportunist " , " inevitable " , " substantial " , " decisive " , " influence " , " comprehensive " etc .
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