Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] through [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 One example is electronic data interchange , often required by the likes of car manufacturers to enable just-in-time inventory management ; electronic funds transfer through the Bankers Automated Clearing System is another .
2 Social problems arise through the incapacities of individuals or families to make use of services or the failure of welfare agencies to deliver them .
3 We have seen around 2,000 visitors come through the doors in the three months .
4 In a few minutes they 'll have a car rush , as 90 cars race through the streets .
5 At night , on a dark moon , lying on my raised sleeping-platform at coconut level , the stars are reflected in the paddies as strongly as if down was up , and half this universe dances round me as the mating fireflies move through the trees and the house .
6 Formal paved areas in the garden provide a nice contrast to the freely curving growth of the plants but , however well laid the paving stones , tiles or bricks , sooner or later weeds sprout through the cracks , and it is either a case of weedkiller , not popular with organic gardeners , or constant weeding , which scrapes fingertips and breaks nails .
7 Green woodpeckers search the grass above the bank while great spotteds peck through the trees .
8 The Knightley Way skirts its western edge and many footpaths meander through the trees .
9 The bat 's air-borne clicks bounce off insects , whereas water-borne sounds pass through the tissues of a fish to the bone and swim bladder .
10 A large proportion of these vital exports pass through the Straits of Hormuz , yet despite attempts by the participants in the Iran-Iraq war to restrict or even stop the movement of tankers this has not occurred and the earlier fear of a serious disruption to supplies has largely abated .
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