Example sentences of "through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ch'i however varies in density from person to person , and the line that I should follow may be hard to discern through the turbid obscuring ch'i of which I am composed . |
| 2 | Brown barges puttered slowly through the turbid water . |
| 3 | You must think your way forward , cutting through the peripheral material , to arrive at the heart of your subject . |
| 4 | Robyn pushed through the stuffy , claustrophobic room , weaving her way with difficulty through the couples who always seem to be dancing , always clinging together . |
| 5 | The Faculty of Health Sciences at Moi University , Eldoret , is now 5 years old , with its first undergraduates half-way through the 3rd year of a 6-year course . |
| 6 | As they come through the death-cell door : |
| 7 | First I was saved in eternity in the plan of God the Father , next I was saved at Calvary through the atoning work of God the Son , finally I was saved on Monday 30 June 19 – through the converting work of God the Holy Spirit . ’ |
| 8 | A period of decline was experienced by Chiswick House through the Crimean War also the Great War of 1914 to 1918 , and after a succession of occupants it became a private asylum for the mentally ill . |
| 9 | FOUR remand prisoners were on the run last night after they attacked prison officers and jumped handcuffed through the smashed window of a moving coach . |
| 10 | She refilled the saucepan , sweat soaking her body despite the cold wind and driving rain blasting through the smashed window . |
| 11 | They swam to the shop across a flooded road and were able to get Mr Grace to safety through the smashed shop window . |
| 12 | Pařižská Street with its buildings dating from 1900–10 cuts a swathe through the picturesque Jewish ghetto . |
| 13 | WORLD WAR II UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCE BASES IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE … can be linked on a nostalgic 60 mile/100 kilometre journey through the picturesque countryside of Northamptonshire . |
| 14 | It was mid-autumn , and the bulk of the tourists who thronged through the picturesque villages in the summer had gone . |
| 15 | To last through the bleakest of winters , terracotta pots need to be tough and frostproof . |
| 16 | He therefore travelled through the greater part of England , observing everything , but was equally careful to inspect all ornamental and kitchen gardens , and to make himself at home and acquainted with all horticulturalists , for he was of the opinion that he could learn something useful which he did not know before at least from some of them . |
| 17 | With mounting importunity these classes demanded political power to match their economic power , and through the greater part of the nineteenth century they challenged the political authority of the landed aristocracy … |
| 18 | In the Urals the late Palaeozoic geosyncline persisted through the greater part of the Permian and the Asian record is , on the whole , very different from that of Europe . |
| 19 | Through the greater part of Triassic , Jurassic and Cretaceous times , what is now northern Europe experienced a remarkably uneventful history that made possible the gentle ( if spasmodic ) accumulation of sediment and the slow evolution of organisms which led to the growth of the science of stratigraphical palaeontology in these strata . |
| 20 | But the general satisfaction with close and successful cooperation evident through the easy , harmonious transfer of responsibility from the District to the Cambridge Board of the Bedfordshire scheme in 1930 began to evaporate when in the following year , the Cambridge Board asked the District to cede its Chapter III providing powers in rural Cambridgeshire to the Board . |
| 21 | Many middle-class mothers share the care of their children on an informal basis of friendship , as well as more formally through the pre-school playgroup movement . |
| 22 | According to Morgan , when he challenged Docherty , The Doc denied being the source of the story and went through the deceptive rituals of ringing the journalist to complain . |
| 23 | The sea is widely expected to break through the narrowest point of the peninsula any year now . |
| 24 | Cut through the Arch Duke 's sleevenotes and poems ( a bit hippy ) to discover that he is funnier and more inventive than at any time in the intervening years . |
| 25 | Two explorers passing through the Chilean desert in 1974 discovered the banana could help keep them on the move when they became stranded because their car had drained of oil . |
| 26 | As I picked my way through the frozen woods towards the observation post which commands a unique view over the former battle-ground of the Marne , I wondered what it must have been like to be a soldier . |
| 27 | Pointer needed no further encouragement and I was too intrigued to object to floundering through the frozen bracken . |
| 28 | Small though he was , he carried her over his shoulder , passing back through the frozen forest to the snow field beyond . |
| 29 | At that moment Belinda looked over her shoulder and , seeing them together , detached herself from the rest of the group and tramped through the dying bracken towards them . |
| 30 | If , despite such investigation , you are still left with two suspects , then you should go through the disciplinary procedure with both of them , including interviewing both , giving an opportunity for one to own up , etc . |