Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] through the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out to have come in through the curved zip which is unprotected by a weather flap . |
| 2 | ( Like many British design engineers at the time — and unlike Continental or American ones — he had no university training and had come up through the usual apprenticeship route with evening and part-time study . ) |
| 3 | Er , this refers back to something said , a little while ago , talking about the fitness of judges , having come up through the legal system . |
| 4 | The returning echoes are believed to be picked up through the fatty interior of the lower jaw . |
| 5 | There was something in his walk — his whole aspect — as if , instead of having come out through the front gate , he had squeezed through a secret hole in the fence . |
| 6 | Any macroeconomic fiscal policy would , therefore , have to be carried out through the federal budget . |
| 7 | In such a way of thinking , war was regarded as an invitation for divine intervention , carried out through the divine instrument , the soldier . |
| 8 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 9 | So a big change in the way that we are arranged has actually come about through the general management structure , and we 're hoping that this will give us more room , if you like to start looking at priorities , and to move the budget around in accordance with our feelings about those priorities . |
| 10 | It went on to note that many of the most effective schemes had come about through the voluntary sector as a result of individual enterprise or a one person crusade — not as a logical outcome of a strategic planning process . |
| 11 | Since those barriers could be temporarily removed by geological agents ( e.g. a lowering of the sea level during the ice age ) , or could occasionally be overcome by accidental means ( e.g. birds blown across the ocean by storms ) , it would be possible to reconstruct the process by which the unique mix of species occupying any given territory had been built up through the periodic influx of newcomers . |
| 12 | The wind , being drawn in through the open window , lifted the fibrous material on the top of my head so the Sun could heal the brick-shaped gash . |
| 13 | What neither German radio nor the public knew was that the Duke of Buccleuch was placed under house arrest on his estates in Scotland , several aristocrats were personally warned by Churchill that if they talked of peace they would be jailed , and Lord Londonderry was questioned inconclusively about a meeting that was alleged to have taken place on his Mountstewart estate in Northern Ireland with four German agents who had travelled up through the Free State . |
| 14 | Proponents of the scheme believe the fans would form artificial tornadoes of polluted air , which would be propelled up through the thermal inversion " cap " . |
| 15 | The gun roared angrily again and the inoffensive family man slumped sideways against the treacherous door , minus the top of his skull , which had been blasted out through the open side window . |
| 16 | Compadrazgo relations are set up through the ritual sponsorship of the church system of appointing godparents for children . |
| 17 | Because of a logjam in Government legislation , the bill will be set up through the private member 's procedure by the Conservative MP for Ayr , Phil Gallie . |
| 18 | The Cockroft Report ( 1984 ) gave a most encouraging survey of good practice and advocated an approach which can be summed up through the mnemonic SPIDER : . |
| 19 | The Commission argues that there is at present no monitoring of environmental quality and trends on a European scale , nor any guarantee that the results of environmental monitoring will be comparable on a Community-wide basis ( a realization brought about through the CORINE programme described later ) . |
| 20 | Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world . |
| 21 | Clearly the pilot had not wasted time calculating an entry angle , but had bored down through the upper atmosphere as directly as he was able . |
| 22 | Sceptics will no doubt dismiss Tito 's order ( even though it was issued down through the full chain of command ) and the assurances given pursuant to it by the Yugoslav negotiators at Bleiburg as mere window-dressing , and they may be right . |
| 23 | I was welcomed in through the front door almost before it was opened , and settled down in front of a Victorian stove that was brimming with hot coals . |
| 24 | Perhaps with concern growing about contaminants and residues in our drinking water , the holy wells may come into their own again , although many have dried up through the permanent lowering of the water table . |