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

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1 Would the exit road from the beach not only carry tanks but could a matting road be laid beside this route to carry wheeled vehicles ?
2 Sec. , Ken Lucas in support with a car carrying liquid refreshments and first aid kit !
3 He was part of a detachment escorting a civilian ambulance carrying wounded people .
4 He was part of a detachment escorting a civilian ambulance carrying wounded people .
5 Magazines such as What Investment carry regular articles on PEPs and all the weekend broadsheets publish news of any major launches .
6 Yesterday morning at the crossroads leading to the village a jeep carrying wounded Airborne troops received a direct hit by a mortar bomb killing everyone on board .
7 Shortly three carloads of young women arrived , followed by the limousine carrying Long John Silver .
8 A boat carrying would-be Moroccan illegal emigrants to Spain sank in the Strait of Gibraltar on June 8 .
9 Briant Bodies Alpha and Beta carry physical characteristics including hair , skin and eye color , and body build .
10 That his views on AIDS carried great weight was a result not only of his experience with research on vaccines , but also because he was so articulate and incisive .
11 Science may be concerned with impersonal forces , religion with personalized gods ; but the very word force carried religious meanings , even for Isaac Newton ( 1642–1727 ) who , in describing the operation of a gravitational force in mathematical terms , also ascribed it to an omnipotent God .
12 This is sometimes called ‘ scholarship ’ , but that term carries unfortunate overtones of separateness and aloneness .
13 As the moving convection cell carries basaltic crust away from the ridge , slowly but continuously , the magnetic reversals taking place every few hundred thousand years or so leave their imprints on the newly-formed rocks emerging from the ridge ; as every reversal occurs , so it is recorded in the formation of reversely-magnetized strips on each side of the ridge .
14 Congressman Albert Gore , who requested the survey , noted that screening carries Orwellian implications .
15 Blood carries essential food and oxygen .
16 Inform haulier of need to supply correct equipment to carry new loads .
17 Thus it seems hardly sufficient for people to vote every four or five years at a time of a general election , the brevity of the act carrying little weight or influence .
18 A careless act carrying foreseeable risk of harm to another is not , of itself , a breach of duty owed under the law of negligence .
19 TWENTY-ONE people were killed and 30 injured yesterday when a coach carrying elderly German tourists hit a car and overturned .
20 The coach carrying elderly passengers on an outing , left the road south-east of Worcester , and crashed down an embankment .
21 A message arrives at the Platoon Command Post requesting fire-fighting assistance ; it transpires that a Turkish vehicle carrying British ammunition has overturn and that fuel is leaking from the ruptured fuel tank .
22 However , out work carries immense potential , even more far-reaching than our own lives .
23 Into this the doe carries dry grass , straw , and suchlike , lining her nest with fur from the belly of her own body .
24 Knife law carries two-year jail sentence
25 better control , and much faster switching from one product to the next thus avoiding the need to carry excess stock .
26 The ‘ Feakle ’ Agreement of early 1975 between the Wilson government and the Provisional IRA promised the latter free movement for its members without arrest for previous crimes and the right to carry concealed hand-guns for selfdefence .
27 It was pointed out that this made the idea of an itinerant craftsman carrying durable models for each brooch pair a nonsense ; the further possibility that each mould was individually carved was not entertained .
28 Nine old women walked round the circle carrying thin branches with the leaves stripped off .
29 After the first two events the RAF team carrying British hopes were still in third place .
30 The scales on the lower half of the body carry black marks which show up as a black patterning the intensity of which depends on the fish 's mood and condition .
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