Example sentences of "be carried [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 It bursts at internals to release into the atmosphere an enormous number of rusty-red spores which are carried on the breeze to germinate in distant damp timber , starting the process afresh .
2 Genes controlling coat pattern are carried on the X chromosome and if one X carries a gene that gives colour and the other X carries an inactive gene , the different patches of tissue containing the different inactivated X chromosomes show up as patches of different colours .
3 The eggs need to be well protected since they are carried on the wind , continually exposed to the sun 's fierce rays , and blown across the sand .
4 The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless .
5 Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces .
6 At the head of the parade was a blue banner bearing the words ‘ Civil Rights March ’ , which had been carried on the Coalisland — Dungannon march .
7 A variety of cargoes , as diverse as Britain 's industries , has been carried on the inland waterways .
8 It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round .
9 As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave .
10 Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier .
11 And I 'm carried on the tide
12 They are planning a 100 per cent digital phone system that will enable voice images and data to be carried on the line .
13 Young may be carried on the snout of the mother if they are in distress ( or stillborn ) , a behaviour that is also sometimes extended to humans in distress .
14 Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s .
15 Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide .
16 The station was filled with hissing steam engines ( well , it was some time back ) and one decided to belch , steam and whistle just as we passed , thus managing to blow the youngest daughter 's mind , who demanded to be carried on the spot — and at frequent intervals during the rest of the adventure .
17 Perhaps I think it beneath my dignity to let myself be carried on the spontaneous flood , employing my divine gift of reason only to navigate on the course of greatest awareness .
18 The crew will be volunteers from the Midlands and a special headboard will be carried on the front of the locomotive , one of the Ffestiniog 's unique double engines .
19 A bar will also be carried on the train .
20 As the wind begins to build , the boom should continue to be carried on the centreline and you should not attempt to sheet the main using the vang : because the boom is so long , the mainsheet is a more effective control .
21 They might very well , for example , relate to the sorts of implements that may be carried on the procession which even if they are not offensive weapons at the beginning of the procession may become so during its course .
22 Well it used to be carried on the back and .
23 However , a surge in voltage of this nature , short-lived or not , may be carried on the mains to other equipment in the vicinity .
24 Will he ensure that sufficient facilities are made available north of Manchester and Liverpool to allow people and freight to be carried on the trains ?
25 No deferred tax asset should be carried on the balance sheet .
26 PLEASE NOTE : ONLY INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE NEW FORMS WILL BE CARRIED ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE NEXT ISSUE OF LEADS .
27 Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance .
28 The burdens were carried on the back , the weight being supported by a tump-line across the forehead .
29 Survey ships were carried on the Navy List , but Navy personnel remained aboard on sufferance only .
30 Passengers had perforce to ride , and goods were carried on the backs of packhorses or mules .
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