Example sentences of "[subord] through [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where through traffic can be diverted from ‘ environmental areas ’ to distributor roads already so busy that the additional vehicles go unnoticed , this approach can clearly produce net benefits . |
| 2 | ‘ Very few local access roads have been treated along their length ; where through traffic needs to be discouraged , treatment has mainly been directed at the access points to the local residential area . |
| 3 | This is a good plan in residential areas where through traffic should be discouraged ; |
| 4 | By emphasising the ‘ primacy of action ’ what these theologians are really saying is that we do not know — indeed we can not obtain knowledge except through praxis . |
| 5 | The question can still be raised whether Pound had any access to Virgil except through translation . |
| 6 | That all this was long gone and impossible to recover , except through industrialisation , social change and arduous struggle with a resilient and increasingly nationalist foe only made life in the eastern borders even more frustrating . |
| 7 | Those who spend their lives looking for some practical escape from the ordinary world eventually have to accept the fact that there is no escape except through death or the imagination . |
| 8 | No left-handed versions ( except through Custom Shop for Custom Money ) |
| 9 | Soderstrom has been , in her distinguished career , much more than an operetta singer , but her virtues , solid attack , excellent diction , and a clear , fine voice appealing more through its silvery edge than through depth or human vulnerability , are essentially charming rather than thought-provoking . |
| 10 | Communication of research in progress is largely a matter of informal international personal contacts , rather than through publication of lists of completed theses . |
| 11 | The ending of a marriage before old age and the creation of step-families through remarriage is by no means a recent phenomenon , but in the past these events occurred more commonly through the early death of one partner than through divorce . |
| 12 | How do you make progress through socialism other than through class conflict ? |
| 13 | Is it because the Labour party feels that it could not convince the people but could achieve its objectives through a centralist bureaucracy in Europe — rather than through argument and persuading its own people ? |
| 14 | His work in geology was of equal importance , since he developed a technique for viewing slivers of rock directly through a microscope ( by cementing the mineral to a glass plate and grinding it to an extreme thinness ) , thus allowing its structure to be visualized by direct microscopy , rather than through use of reflected light , which revealed only its surface qualities . |
| 15 | Now , though , there is an administration in Washington which believes in helping technologies directly , rather than through spin-off . |
| 16 | A succession of clicks followed and finally the subdued sound of the phone ringing again as if through water . |
| 17 | The point passed through its body as if through tree fungus . |
| 18 | This cinema had also capitalised on the psycho-acoustic phenomenon prevalent in rock music of suggesting heightened intensity with ‘ fuzz ’ : the speaker cone had plainly blown , rendering all dialogue and music as if through comb and paper . |
| 19 | And make us see through wine as if through glass . |
| 20 | Very little very few apprentices were sacked unless through misdemeanour or anything but if you done your work you were there to as long as you you liked . |
| 21 | The second reason why the ozone layer is important is because through absorption it controls the amount of ultraviolet ( UV-B ) or erythemal solar radiation reaching the ground . |
| 22 | Whether through laughter or tears Hollywood was making its mark and confessions were bound to come . |
| 23 | However romanticized that account may be , it remains true that , whether through loyalty , vision or ambition for himself , Zborowski trudged the streets of Paris trying to sell Modigliani 's work to dealers , critics and collectors . |
| 24 | With school attendance , for example , it was the working class mother who was visited by the school attendance officer if her child failed to attend school , whether through inability to pay the school fee charged prior to 1891 , indiscipline , or because the child 's services were needed at home . |
| 25 | Swisher ( 1976 ) in a thorough review of achievement in what she terms the ‘ oral deaf ’ , found problems in speech ( in word classes , in syntax and in length of utterance ) , in reading ( whether through achievement tests , completion tasks , or direct analysis of morphology , phrases and so on ) , and in writing ( where either limited or stereotyped production occurs ) . |
| 26 | The Women 's Cooperative Guild and other groups translated such feelings into a call for measures to improve the status of working class wives , whether through divorce law reform , health services or an assured income . |
| 27 | At the beginning , before we start to read a couplet , we are aware that it is a couplet ( whether through modem conventions of typography , or through our familiarity with the poetic convention itself ) ; we can see that it will end after a snatch of words of between four and about ten , and we can expect that the couplet will constitute a complete sense-unit . |
| 28 | If the hostages were to die it would be because their government had failed , whether through lack of expertise or lack of interest , to find a solution . |
| 29 | CSOs may well assist doctors in the management of some difficult patients , but they will do little to assist those patients who have been denied proper care and treatment — whether through lack of resources , shortage of hospital beds , or ineffective use and misunderstanding of the powers already available under the Mental Health Act 1983 . |
| 30 | The availability of subsidies for care , whether through insurance companies or state schemes has acted both as an obstacle to change and as a change facilitator . |