Example sentences of "[verb] carry [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , not all existential propositions are intended to carry ontological claims .
2 My earlier use of ‘ translation ’ to cover both interpretation and compilation into a lower-level language is not intended to carry any suggestion that the lower levels , including the lowest level of all , the machine 's registers , can be an interesting formal semantics for the higher levels , let alone what the highest level ‘ is about ’ .
3 Tim , do you want to carry this ?
4 Do you want to carry this ?
5 Investment of between £4 billion and £5 billion is forecast in a series of developments focused round a pipeline network expected to carry 1.2 billion cubic feet of gas a day to Teesside .
6 In 1992-93 , Trainload Freight expected to carry 18.35 million tonnes of freight for PowerGen , but that figure is now likely to be as high as 19.6 million tonnes .
7 He told the King that he would prefer MacDonald to remain in office in order to carry out the necessary programme of economies ; but that if he failed to carry enough of his colleagues with him , then the best alternative would be for MacDonald to head a National Government containing members of all three parties .
8 Great crises do occur in the midst of structural change and , in fact , are part of the process helping to carry those changes through .
9 No young man offers to carry this burden for her .
10 They 'll find themselves chartered to carry pig-iron and cheap tin trays , just like everybody else ; and by that time they 'll be down in the South Seas loading rainbows and moonbeams .
11 We have no hidden gifts and no hidden donations to the Labour Party we have an open and upfront relationship with them and we intend to carry that through .
12 For 20 minutes the air will gradually charge , as Sidney 's fantastical imaginary seduction acts itself out through the medium of Byrd 's music , so neutral on the surface but so supremely calculated to carry such a sensual text .
13 We propose to carry that principle forward , both in communal discussions next year and as a key part of the British presidency in the second half of 1992 .
14 Firstly , she needs to carry some weight to maintain her power .
15 After the first flutters of excitement in the immediate aftermath of war about GIs , nylon stockings , bubble-gum , television , flashy motorcars , labour-saving gadgetry and all-American razzle-dazzle , caricatures of ‘ Americanisation ’ have come to carry enormous authority within postwar deliberations on the decline of the old ‘ way of life ’ .
16 The US Baby Bells are telling the US powers that be that they will invest $100,000m upgrading their networks if they are permitted to carry any services they choose on them — if not , they will simply allow their networks to deteriorate and decay : no , they do n't actually go that far , but they say they will collectively invest only $25,000m .
17 Each truck has to carry 26 of them , together weighing over a ton .
18 Currently , the Royal Navy is expected to carry 512 nuclear warheads on its Trident fleet .
19 Scottish teachers , like their counterparts south of the border , were seeking better pay and conditions ; but the Scottish dispute was also a massive protest at the rapid rate of educational change and at the way in which teachers felt they were expected to carry forward developments without adequate support .
20 The report , Choosing a Sustainable Future , is expected to carry considerable weight with the Clinton administration ; several members of the team responsible for preparing it are close to the new president .
21 I think the stress and strain on the bearings for instance , the the middle bearing of it was underrated to carry that amount of weight , not in the vertical sense but in the yawing to and fro .
22 He 'd made it abundantly clear that Hari was of no account in the community , that she could not be trusted to carry any weight with lawyers and the like .
23 so I just want to carry that over
24 But the surrounding drain designed to carry all the toxic effluent away in the foul sewer system had become blocked .
25 Designed to carry 11 turbines , each with a capacity of 450 kilowatts , the farm will produce electricity costing around 0.63 Danish krone ( 5.8 pence ) per kilowatt hour , generating 12 million kilowatt-hours a year .
26 An additional problem is that the most heavily used motorways are being designed to carry 100 million standard axles over 20 years .
27 The MAC system was designed to carry encrypted data and teleconference links either instead of normal programmes , or piggyback on top of them .
28 Earlier Land Rovers with the smaller wheel studs , were designed to carry most of the load on the large hole in the centre , so fitting Range Rover wheels , which carry the loading on the studs , is not on unless you change for the later SIII type hubs .
29 During its lifetime , both in peacetime and war ( e.g. WW II , Korea , the Falklands and latterly the Gulf ) the railway has carried hundreds of thousands of tons of stores and equipments internally for the RAOC for storage and issue , also to the REME at 34 Base Workshop for repair .
30 The human race has carried this to another stage .
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