Example sentences of "[vb pp] through [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PROPOSALS to join two Argyll area tourist boards were voted through amid uproar yesterday . |
| 2 | The only disappointment for the Sunderland fans was that the team did not come out to be saluted after their 1–0 victory as happened when the 1973 side also won through to Wembley at Hillsborough . |
| 3 | I heard the boxes were arrived from London , and on the 4th sorted the ten guinea etchings but found in a most unaccountable ( sic ) that all 13 Conistons with about as many more were pricked through with nails … . ’ |
| 4 | The descriptive analysis of pollution control work is carried through into Chapter 5 . |
| 5 | At Samarkand , masons were active building a grand terminus ( which was to remain so only until the railway was carried through to Tashkent in 1898 ) . |
| 6 | The whole enterprise is carried through with panache and — apart from the fact that it clocks in at a rather miserly total of only 52 minutes — the disc can be thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants a well-chosen selection of G&S numbers . |
| 7 | Some activities , distribution , haulage , advertising and marketing , may be carried through by specialist firms who also provide these services for other industries . |
| 8 | This programme was successfully carried through by Erwin Schrödinger and his results published early in 1926 , a classic counter-example to the assertion that distinguished theoretical physicists do their best work before they are 25 ( Schrödinger was 38 at the time ) . |
| 9 | Professor Elton believes that they are part of the revolution in government carried through by Thomas Cromwell , that they produced an entirely new kind of Council — a formal governing board instead of an informal inner ring — and that they achieved a clear demarcation of function between administrative and judicial business , with the Privy Council attending to administration and the Star Chamber in effect the same people afforced by two judges — carrying out conciliar jurisdiction . |
| 10 | Tormented by allegations of adultery , draft evasion , and venality , he has limped through to victory with an empty campaign , crafted to avoid giving offence to anybody . |
| 11 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
| 12 | And a few seconds ago an urgent message had come through from GCHQ at Cheltenham . |
| 13 | Fielding Goodney , with all kinds of developments : a " dream script " had come through from Doris Arthur , Caduta Mass and Butch Beausoleil had put their signatures on the line , Spunk wanted in , Lorne wanted out — Lorne Guyland was going crazy , or was staying that way . |
| 14 | If we can get them lined up at the entrance , they should be sucked through like water through a plug hole . |
| 15 | As soon as machines landed , pilots ' written reports were sent by dispatch rider or telephoned through to GHQ . |
| 16 | In backing a Petrakov plan , Mr Gorbachev risks popular unrest as well as revolt within the Communist party ( and perhaps the resignation of his prime minister , Mr Nikolai Ryzhkov , if economic policy is rammed through by decree rather than through his government ) . |
| 17 | They had to use the guards " radio , which was patched through to army headquarters and thence to the Majles . |
| 18 | She picked up the receiver and had to identify herself again before she was patched through to Kolchinsky . |
| 19 | Usually the largest bars are broken through at intervals by tidal inlets especially where powerful rivers reach the coast . |
| 20 | Army Group E had included seven army corps , one of which , the 15 SS Cossack Cavalry Corps , had already broken through to Austria and surrendered to the British . |
| 21 | Furnished through by Stoddard Mercia , this luxurious interior contrasts with its wild surroundings as the Gairloch Hotel , near Ullapool , re-opens for business . |
| 22 | This is an argument shot through with inconsistency . |
| 23 | His observations on the burgeoning jazz scene are quite laughable , and typically shot through with self-deception . |
| 24 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 25 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 26 | Ninth-century annals and histories deal directly with public affairs and provide a more or less reliable framework of political events ; but they too are shot through with perceptions of the miraculous , and they are , at the same time , highly personal works ( as historical writing usually is ) , full of bias and image-making , whether written ( as many were ) for the king 's entourage , or for an audience far away from the court . |
| 27 | Though not all his points are equally well taken , there can be no doubt that he is right in his basic assertion that the Kanunname is shot through with anachronisms suggesting sixteenth-century alterations and additions and that any provision of it must be treated with reserve and checked against other sources before being accepted as being genuinely of the time of Mehmed II . |
| 28 | Such dilemmas show how these issues and decisions — and the stance which we take on them — are shot through with value judgements about what is ‘ best ’ and ‘ justifiable ’ . |
| 29 | All of these descriptions are shot through with implications of reasoning from means to ends ; for human beings to perform similar actions would , under normal circumstances , be to act purposively , with conscious intent . |
| 30 | This is a genuine kind of knowledge , but it is shot through with subjectivity . |