Example sentences of "carried [adv] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 2 | More recently , the American writer Washington Irving ( 1783- 1959 ) described the ghost of a cavalryman ‘ whose head had been carried away by a cannonball in some nameless battle ’ during the American War of Independence . |
| 3 | The policeman 's dog ( breed unidentified in Flaubert 's version ) was n't carried away by a torrent ; it just drowned in deep water . |
| 4 | Non-resonant absorption of a photon , in which both surplus energy and surplus linear momentum are carried away by a photon of lower energy , is a much less favorable process . |
| 5 | The next afternoon Colin was carried downstairs by a man servant , and put in his wheelchair outside the front door . |
| 6 | Firm C was a provincial branch practice in a north country town , carried largely by a managing clerk . |
| 7 | There is a radioactive process — beta decay — which enables one of the protons to shed its charge , in effect becoming a neutron at the instant of fusing ( the electrical charge being carried off by a positively charged form of the electron , known as a positron ) , the proton and neutron fusing to make a deuteron and liberating energy . |
| 8 | One unguarded remark by Byrkin , one remark that had been carried back by a man with innocence on his face to those who would judge Byrkin . |
| 9 | The fee for burial does not include charges for grave-digging , which may be carried out by a parochial officer ( in which case the vicar sets the charge ) , or by a grave-digger hired by the funeral director . |
| 10 | You can do the work yourself , use a ‘ network installer ’ , or get the work carried out by a contractor . |
| 11 | The transplant was carried out by a team of surgeons headed by Kai-Chah Tan . |
| 12 | Its administration is carried out by a staff of several hundred who work under the direction of the general council . |
| 13 | The development of housing for sale with the use of private funding can not be carried out by a registered housing association — Northern Counties Provident Housing Association — had to be set up . |
| 14 | The Government may be the paymaster , but the actual negotiations are carried out by a team of health authority representatives who might be industrial relations experts but usually are not . |
| 15 | It is recommended that the installation is carried out by a qualified tradesman , or , at least , is checked by one . |
| 16 | The Convention shall likewise apply to carriage carried out by a state or a state organisation . |
| 17 | Every consignment of beef arriving at the meat plant is subject to a total of 36 separate quality control checks , carried out by a team of qualified technologists . |
| 18 | Most of the work for this momentous event was carried out by a sub-committee for which no records exist . |
| 19 | This was no unauthorised operation carried out by a bunch of freelance hotheads . |
| 20 | The most important recent investigation was carried out by a Committee of Enquiry chaired by Lord Elton . |
| 21 | The Elton Report has produced a detailed set of recommendations following a comprehensive examination of the subject , informed by specially commissioned research carried out by a team from the University of Sheffield . |
| 22 | Although the Conservatives are seen as the natural allies of nuclear power , the ordering of every commercial reactor in Britain up to the 1980s was carried out by a Labour administration . |
| 23 | Daily operation was usually carried out by a miller who , like a number of other employees , was actually paid a salary and granted a number of other privileges . |
| 24 | Similarly , repairs and maintenance should only be carried out by a specialist mastic asphalt contractor . |
| 25 | The survey is usually carried out by a chartered surveyor , which means — in theory at least — that he can be held liable for negligence and sued for damages . |
| 26 | The roof , however , was only six years old and a structural analysis subsequently carried out by a structural engineer showed that not only was it impossible for that roof to slip , but furthermore it was twice as strong as the Building Regulations required . |
| 27 | There are a number of treatments for rising damp , but the most common ( and cheapest ) treatment is by silicone injection , carried out by a specialist firm and carrying a 30-year guarantee . |
| 28 | There is considerable reported variation in the methodology and location of scanning , and the degree to which it is carried out by a formally constituted unit or units ( B.1 ) . |
| 29 | The practice of using the passage of years since the birth of Christ as a numbering system had its genesis in some work carried out by a monk , Dionysius Exiguus , in AD525 . |
| 30 | Recognition of good work carried out by a student and help in improving standards when her work is less good will demonstrate the interest of the ward staff in her progress . |