Example sentences of "through [prep] the [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was only just room to scrape through between the roots of the tree and the edge . |
| 2 | We have realised these in our budgets by a reduced turnover , but on a more positive note we have also planned a slight increase in our capital replacement spend to retain the capabilities of our fleet of plant and vehicles to be able to take account of any upturn in the overall UK market which could well show through towards the end of the year . |
| 3 | I sucked a huge breath , ducked low , praying I might yet slip through beneath the bulk of the web which I knew must be draped across the passage in front of me . |
| 4 | During the 1970s and 1980s , therefore , Britain 's coalfields differed significantly in the degree of militancy of the NUM members , and those differences carried through into the conduct of the 1984–5 dispute . |
| 5 | Challenge worked her way through an area strewn with salmon cages and creels and with some difficulty found her way through into the lee of the island , which was now illuminated by a coastguard auxiliary 's searchlight . |
| 6 | Although most biographers ( encouraged by Darwin 's own recollections ) have played down the Edinburgh episode , the most recent studies have noted that he developed an interest in invertebrate zoology here that was to form a mainstay of his scientific work through into the time of the Beagle voyage . |
| 7 | Unlike the situation at a comparable juncture in western development , however , this revolution could not be carried through under the leadership of the bourgeoisie . |
| 8 | Lowden bridges are unusual in two respects : the saddles are split into two sections for optimum intonation on wound and unwound strings , and the strings mount through from the back of the bridge rather than via the old bridge-pin method , which would mean a longer string-changing time . |
| 9 | The maid came through from the back of the house and bobbed a curtsy to Emily . |
| 10 | With only shocked monosyllables passing between us , we waded into the living room , where just a small steam flowed through from the area of the guest bedroom and bathroom . |
| 11 | The reforms of Joseph II ( 1780–90 ) , which were carried through in the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment , included a secularisation of education and the recognition of the rights of the Slav subjects of the Empire to instruct in their own language . |
| 12 | Failing this , the most accurate method would be to drill through within the area of the proposed opening and , with an assistant , measure the depth . |
| 13 | A UNHCR spokesman said the convoy , stuck at Serb checkpoints since last Monday , had been allowed through on the orders of the Bosnian Serb leader , Radovan Karadzic . |
| 14 | But the greatest disappointment of his career was when Regent 's management agreement with The Dorchester fell through on the sale of the hotel . |
| 15 | These input data uncertainties are attributable to a number of sources ranging from errors in the original cartographic map documents through to the effects of the GIS operations themselves . |
| 16 | The judges then went on to get through to the hub of the whole matter : |
| 17 | It will trace the roots of nationalist sentiments from their beginnings during the First World War , through to the election of the first national government in the history of the islands , the Peoples Nationalist Movement , in 1956 . |
| 18 | It was time to cut through to the heart of the matter . |
| 19 | The crowd had parted to let Harriet through to the centre of the square . |
| 20 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 21 | The launch pad might be in the way , pushing on us from that end to stop us doing the natural thing which is to fall vertically through to the centre of the Earth . |
| 22 | Henry went through to the back of the shop . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's got a hard-tail , like my ‘ 64 , so the strings go straight through to the back of the body . |
| 24 | And the bridge , with the strings going through to the back of the body ? |
| 25 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 26 | He walked through to the back of the shop and called out to his father-in-law . |
| 27 | Tony Jones lifted the serving hatch and invited George through to the back of the shop . |
| 28 | The proprietor thrust aside the plastic tassels that filled the doorway through to the back of the dry cleaner 's and dumped his shopping bag on the floor next to an ironing board . |
| 29 | When I first came to live here this room ran through to the back of the house , but my husband put up a partition , so we have a small room at the back where we can have our meals . |
| 30 | A spokesman for Darlington police said the thieves got into the bank through the rear and then broke through to the back of the cash dispensing machines in the bank foyer . |