Example sentences of "[vb pp] through [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though consent , if valid , has normative consequences , and can only be explained through its purported normative consequences , it does not bear its normativeness on its face . |
| 2 | the exercise of power is not the unconditional outcome of a Mechanical clash of wills but has definite social and material conditions of existence and is circumscribed through its links with other determinations in a social formation . |
| 3 | Its foundation as the capital of Scotland in the late eleventh century , and its development in the following centuries into a distinctive city crowded on a hill within a defensive wall can be traced through its buildings . |
| 4 | As control families were traced through their general practitioner with the facilities offered by the central register , families who emigrated before the study began ( five ) and those whose current family health services authority was not recorded ( five ) or incorrectly recorded ( 11 ) were replaced by the next eligible control in the series . |
| 5 | Its contribution has in part been developed through its critical understanding of what a working-class adult education might be , drawing on the best elements of the liberal adult education tradition to produce an education that respects people 's culture and experience , but also subjects it to analysis and questioning . |
| 6 | The course of Hornblower 's love for the forthright ( and fictional ) sister of the noble Wellesleys , developed through his uneasy , self-tormenting thoughts , plays the central part in the novels demanded by their romantic tone and structure ; in the way the two proud individuals adjust to an intimacy which disturbs their essential need for privacy of character , in Hornblower 's emotional vacillations when in perilous circumstances he meets Mane de Graçay again , his behaviour and musings are consistent with his given character . |
| 7 | The limitations of this class were clear : they were the opportunists whose sense of failure and sense of grievance could be nicely manipulated through their sense of German identity and nationalism . |
| 8 | The words were scarcely out before one of his taller companions clamped a hand round the back of his neck and with a dusty , unshod foot kicked his buttocks , exposed through his torn shorts . |
| 9 | To the last , Mrs Thatcher 's private thoughts and feelings were communicated through her legendary press secretary , Bernard Ingham . |
| 10 | She wandered through to the kitchen to get her bag , and checked through her notes for the name and address of the Rose Bowl 's usual wholesaler . |
| 11 | Noisy voices floated through their windows . |
| 12 | A desire that Tony had never evoked in her floated through her veins like liquid fire , and she found herself responding eagerly , wantonly , to his caresses . |
| 13 | As he fell asleep , Byron 's lines floated through his fuddled mind . |
| 14 | Georgie , Marion , Paul , Linda — the children 's faces floated through my mind . |
| 15 | the reception of Derrida 's work , perhaps more than that of any other recent French thinker , has been marked by an astonishingly casual and unquestioning acceptance of certain extremely condensed — not to say sloganistic — characterisations of the history of Western thought , as if this history could be dismissed through its reduction to a set of perfunctory dualisms . |
| 16 | The taxi driver leaned through his window at one point and passed me a small scrap of paper . |
| 17 | On first seeing All Quiet on the Western Front it was as if the whole cast had marched through my life on their way to Wallsend station and the battlefields of Europe . |
| 18 | The Consul had stumbled through his speech and Holly had listened . |
| 19 | In other words , and I quote , ‘ … because she shed his blood , she was punished through her blood ’ ( Gen. Rabbah 17.13 ) . |
| 20 | That 's why I 've been punished through his death . |
| 21 | The blank round ripped through her jeans , burned her leg and sent her sprawling on the floor on their night-out in Wrexham , North Wales . |
| 22 | Laura Smith , four , and her sister Emma , two , were found huddled in the living room after the fireball ripped through their home . |
| 23 | The home side , who collapsed spectacularly to Lancashire in the Benson and Hedges Cup , again slumped as the Pakistani all-rounder ripped through their batting . |
| 24 | A PENSIONER was killed and her husband is fighting for his life after an explosion ripped through their home . |
| 25 | Searing , excruciating agony ripped through his hand and up his arm until it seemed to engulf his entire body . |
| 26 | The bullet ripped through his deltoid muscle and pulverized part of the scapula as it exited , the impact enough to spin him almost three hundred and sixty degrees . |
| 27 | Fire horror : A five-year-old boy died after fire ripped through his home in Crawley , West Sussex early today . |
| 28 | Despite his programmatic emphasis in the Archaeology on the discursive formation as a means of making intelligible those knowledges that are formulated through their institutional components , Foucault turned away from this kind of historical enquiry because it was too ‘ clean , conceptually aseptic ’ — in other words , too apolitical . |
| 29 | The four were members of a party of nine pupils and a teacher on an outdoor activity holiday arranged through their school , Southways Comprehensive School , Plymouth , Devon . |
| 30 | There has been concern that , since Nicholas Serota moved to the Tate Gallery in 1989 , its exhibition programme had lost the momentum gathered through his energy and vision . |