Example sentences of "through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If we find an inmate who is taking drugs we go through the disciplinary procedures . |
| 32 | To date , four cases have gone through the disciplinary procedure . |
| 33 | Perhaps , in the primordial soup , left and right handedness were in free competition until some small chance advantage became overwhelming through the evolutionary progress . |
| 34 | As a protective response , refined through the evolutionary process , it is very effective . |
| 35 | by no means all rhyolite lavas are associated with obsidian — the majority are not — and , as one goes further back through the geological record , obsidian becomes progressively more and more scarce , due to devitrification , and none at all is found in rocks more than a few million years old . |
| 36 | By the time Darwin was working on the Origin of Species , the man who was to become his great opponent in the USA , Louis Agassiz , was using diagrams to show how the various families of fish had flourished and declined through the geological epochs ; and in his handsome volumes of 1857 , Contributions to the Natural History of the United States , I and II , he included a plate of turtles to show the range of variation within a species . |
| 37 | Thus , we might look at lithological changes through the geological column . |
| 38 | No solicitor 's costs , nor costs allowed to a litigant in person in lieu , will be allowed in an arbitration except for those stated on the summons , those incurred in enforcing the award , and those incurred through the unreasonable conduct of the opposing party . |
| 39 | If swallowed it kills in seconds , if absorbed through the thinner membranes in the mouth without swallowing , it kills in hours . |
| 40 | You then backstitch through the enlarged stitches as they hang in the hooks . |
| 41 | Katherine , as she walked through the enlarged sweep of the living room with its creamy raw silk textures , its mix of low-slung sofas and older more ornately curved chairs , was radiant with satisfaction . |
| 42 | Dyson drove Bob home in the old Standard Vanguard , through the dank , dead streets of the inner suburbs , yellow under the sodium lights . |
| 43 | A strange plaintive yowl had curdled through the hushed wood . |
| 44 | HARRISONS & Crosfield must really dislike being classified as an overseas trader if it is willing to go through the complex process of changing its listing only to end up as a miscellaneous industrial . |
| 45 | Not only may firms be unable , for reasons of bounded rationality , to work through the complex mathematics of these models , they may not have to because the answer is to them so obvious . |
| 46 | A younger person , for example , may need help with housing , assistance in finding a way through the complex welfare benefit system , help with using the local rehabilitation facilities at a day centre or day hospital , help in planning a return to work , and so on . |
| 47 | Better theory can help guide policy makers through the complex web of issues and data associated with cases in regulatory and competition policies . |
| 48 | The company says the software allows independent software vendors to preserve their software investments by giving existing Unix tools and commands transparent access , through the standard Unix file system interface , to any version of any object in the program . |
| 49 | The tradition is then perpetuated through the standard textbooks and is transmitted in teaching by asking students to ‘ do it my way ’ . |
| 50 | In January 1948 the US State Department began to consider posting an Ambassador to Madrid and supplies of petroleum and military and paramilitary matériel began to be sent through the Standard Oil Company . |
| 51 | People are n't going to request your record unless they have heard of it , and finally , they wo n't have heard of your record unless it has been promoted properly through the usual channels of TV , radio , music press , national press and live shows . |
| 52 | The request was first submitted a number of months ago , but all attempts through the usual channels have failed . |
| 53 | A Vietnamese airport official said they went through the usual passport and customs procedures and then boarded buses to Soc San reception centre which was also the first stop for almost 600 boat people who returned voluntarily from Hong Kong earlier this year . |
| 54 | A horse that is empathic with another knows how the other feels without it being told through the usual senses of sight , hearing , touch , and smell . |
| 55 | We arrived at 9.30 , went through the usual contortions to buy a ticket , and were told to expect a train at 10.30 . |
| 56 | One night when there was an air raid alert on , and we were trying in vain to sleep through the usual ‘ noises off ’ , mainly the big anti-aircraft guns situated it seemed at the end of the garden , there was suddenly the most appalling crash immediately over our heads . |
| 57 | Several months previously he had applied through the usual channels for a commission in the RAF , with the idea at the back of his mind of getting back into flying . |
| 58 | Having been through the usual bass/guitar/drum formative years , they 've moved sideways to a shiny guitar/keyboard sound which draws on the good bits of the early '80s , without being retro . |
| 59 | In the past the NZRFU might not have dealt with submissions from individuals ( such as Knight or even Mayhew ) but would have waited for the details to come , union-to-union , through the usual official channels . |
| 60 | She was a child , he should have thought about what would happen when she went through the usual adolescent trials . |