Example sentences of "[noun sg] through [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By introducing a programme for the training of drawing teachers in 1871 , the school opened up a vocation to women : a vocation through which they could attempt to have more secure incomes . |
| 2 | That figure will be part of a programme through which we will spend more than £1 billion on housing next year . |
| 3 | To escape this branding of myself as a bodily failure , I longed to be able to attach myself to an organisation stronger than myself , an association through which I could derive a feeling of physical achievement and personal status I would not otherwise possess . |
| 4 | It has spiracles along its side through which it can breathe , but it neither feeds nor excretes . |
| 5 | Gripping the hammer in one fist and propping the hatch up with her free hand , she crouched low so that she had about an inch gap through which she could see the back door . |
| 6 | But it is also true that journalists and editors know full well that public relations is an important source of information for their work and often can be the instrument through which they may obtain their story . |
| 7 | One of the key benefits of the move will be to give Enterprise Training access to a professional marketing department through which it can promote awareness of its services to employers . |
| 8 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 9 | A computer terminal , these days usually a Visual Display Unit , can be compared with a window through which you can scan your data or information . |
| 10 | The spider may wait for developments sitting in the centre of the web or she may retreat to the side and lurk there with one of her eight legs resting on a cue-line through which she will feel movements in the trap . |
| 11 | It may well be that some accountant has shown the society a loophole through which it can escape the obligations laid upon it at its foundation in 1914 . |
| 12 | She generally lived in a room next to the church , which had a window in the wall through which she could watch the Mass and receive the sacraments . |
| 13 | The olive grove through which he used to walk as a boy was submerged beneath a main road and a cluster of lean-to engineering sheds even before 1948 . |
| 14 | State administrative agencies thus feed off the results of interest-group pressure , and interest groups find in the administration multiple points of access through which they can influence the formulation of government policy . |
| 15 | There was frequently a hair-tidy of the same design on the dressing-table , a little dish with a lid , and a hole through which one could push the hair that came out on the comb . |
| 16 | Blake apparently broke one of the cast-iron sections of the frame , creating a space through which he could crawl , and then dropped down to the ground below , a distance of 22 feet , which was broken by the roof of a covered passageway . |
| 17 | Most of the Independent museums have a Trust or Society through which you can offer your help . |
| 18 | It 's a marvellous profession through which we can help our fellow citizens , an enriching one which , like medicine , saves lives … |
| 19 | The spider-web lightning twitched and surged at the windows , as if hunting for some small crack in the glass through which it could get to them . |
| 20 | Human beings chose the imagery through which they would capture their understanding of God . |
| 21 | To be more specific , he showed that , if chemical substances react in a medium through which they can diffuse , it is not always true that the reactants will become uniformly distributed . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm pleased with the commercials I 've made , but I consider my photographs to be the medium through which I can express myself , ’ he says . |
| 23 | Though I might , in working for a different future , find the struggle of women politically inspiring , I am unlikely to find a community in which women were not counted equal a medium through which I can gain a glimpse of God . |
| 24 | It was a lens through which he could view life , literature , and history , often with mischievous irony . |
| 25 | When the DUP began , the only formal channel through which it could pursue its politics was Stormont and Paisley and Beattie were outnumbered in a very short-lived parliament . |
| 26 | Having chosen the story , theme or music , choreographers must consider the available living material through which they can mould the particular style of dance appropriate to their ideas . |