Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who have always believed that the war was between Maronites and the rest — the forces of the Gemayels and the Chamouns against Lebanese Muslims and Palestinians — can point to the Phalangist massacre , on 13 April 1975 , of 27 Palestinians who were travelling by bus through the Beirut suburb of Ein al-Rumaneh . |
| 2 | Thus , when the aesthetic ideas of Collingwood ( 1938 ) , which emphasized the ‘ artistic ’ , intellectual activity of the artists ' mind rather than manual , ‘ craft ’ activities , were introduced to education through the writings of Herbert Read ( 1943 ) a teaching strategy was already in place to exploit a progressive , child-centred philosophy . |
| 3 | The were taken by limousine through the streets of Manhattan , observing with awe the eight magnificent structures that had been on the market for many months and which no one had wanted to buy . |
| 4 | Reinforcements were arriving on foot through the tunnel . |
| 5 | However , the search still proved too expensive , even given the constraints of the data and the knowledge graph , and only a band or ‘ beam ’ of hypotheses was pursued in parallel through the graph . |
| 6 | During the difficult times in the thirties , the bread and butter money for Tillers was made at Christmas through the patronage of Laidler and Littler so an offer of a regular summer season was eagerly accepted by the office . |
| 7 | Norman Bayles was a cousin to my father and was related to Mother through the Tallentire family . |
| 8 | The essentials of the existing programme , Brezhnev explained , were still valid , but twenty years had elapsed since its adoption and there were many developments it had failed to record , among them the fact that Soviet society was proceeding to communism through the stage of ‘ developed socialism ’ . |
| 9 | Some 56 per cent of the Komercni banka Praha and 55 per cent of the Vseobecna uverova banka Bratislava — the country 's two biggest — was allocated for sale through the use of privatization coupons . |