Example sentences of "be [verb] through [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually the largest bars are broken through at intervals by tidal inlets especially where powerful rivers reach the coast . |
| 2 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 3 | All steel parts are checked through on a magnaflux machine . |
| 4 | The growing demands and applications being made of plastics are filtering through to the additive market , requiring them to be constantly updated and made more efficient , and thus leading to higher prices , explained the report . |
| 5 | Last month Trevor Goodall , team leader of the Turning Point project , told me , ‘ Bits of information on the community care changes are filtering through to us from social services , and we think that we will be involved in the assessment process . |
| 6 | Many cognitive processes are carried through without conscious awareness . |
| 7 | First built at the time of Edward I , it has been occupied through to the present day . |
| 8 | The October revolution had been carried through on the assumption that Russia , although a relatively backward country and hardly ‘ ripe ’ for revolution in a Marxist sense , could help to bring about a European and later a worldwide transition to a communist social order . |
| 9 | We may feel today that things might have been better planned , and that it is a great pity that what now looks like the decisive contribution of England to world history should have been carried through with so much muddle and mess . |
| 10 | Indeed , many of the postures struck in the 19th century have been carried through to recent times ; the belief , for example , that the educated do not enter business is still widespread , if not endemic in the national consciousness . |
| 11 | The red theme has been carried through to the goblets that the family use every Christmas , the napkins and the candlesticks . |
| 12 | As a result , a whole range of measures including stricter disciplinary codes , work reorganisation and redundancies have been carried through in large numbers of firms ( Hyman and Elger , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | the folded sections of a book are stabbed through with wire staples at the binding edge , prior to the covers being drawn on . |
| 14 | The ban has been pushed through by the Labour group which regained control of the county council in May . |
| 15 | The move , effective from April , created furore at Westminster as Labour MPs complained the measure had almost no support in Scotland and had been pushed through by English Tory MPs . |
| 16 | Government by minority is usually bad government ; in no truly democratic country could a disaster like the poll tax have been pushed through in defiance of public opinion , wasting billions of pounds and causing misery to millions of people . |
| 17 | But no attempt to dismantle radically the fabric of state regulation or public service provision has yet been pushed through in any liberal democracy , so that the public policy configuration now remains quite distinct from that prevailing before 1945 . |
| 18 | Christian Burial of the Dead combines with Buddha 's Fire Sermon , but both are shot through with the sort of primitive fertility cycle hinted at in ‘ Death by Water ’ . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the written narratives which constitute the novel are shot through with the vestiges of oral culture : incomplete sentences , a tendency toward verbosity and digression , as well as an abundance of transcriptions of actual dialogue . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He wrote immediately to the SMG , cutting off all contact : ‘ I am not interested in agencies who politic and posture for no other reason than to promote themselves … secondly , as I am not presently able to place any trust in you , I must insist that any further matters you wish to raise are channelled through to a suitable agency , viz the local council or HCRC . ’ |
| 24 | We 're passing through on the way to Manchester and we 've been to your surgery they said you were out this way … described your car . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course we 're going through with it , ’ said Ryan . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're soaked through with sweat , right enough . |
| 27 | Also if you 're moving through to Wardington on the 361 , resurfacing again has left some temporary traffic lights , that 's just to the north of Banbury there , between in fact Banbury and the Daventry road . |
| 28 | Also more roadworks may well affect your journey to the north of Enstone on the A43 , that 's because of some resurfacing work , and if you 're travelling through on the 417 at East Hendred er near the Hare public house , there 's more temporary signals in operation too this evening . |
| 29 | If not , give me a phone sometime , and let me know if you 're coming through at all . |
| 30 | And if you 're coming through from Lancaster , you know , as soon a it 's a far old drag in n it ? |