Example sentences of "be shot through [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | In his opinion , they would make peace on almost any terms , they were shot through with cowardice , they lived in a perpetual funk . |
| 5 | This is a genuine kind of knowledge , but it is shot through with subjectivity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The criminal law of England ( it might well be argued ) is shot through with inconsistencies and irrationalities , and , however a subjectivist may present it , exhibits a considerable amount of objective liability . |