Example sentences of "through [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.

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1 POLE-AXED THE strain breaks through as an emotional Nigel Mansell quits .
2 It was remarkably brief , but encompassed a great deal and was consciously planned and carried through as an ecumenical Council , the first of its kind .
3 Somewhere in the middle I spotted Basil , the rough-coated Jack Russell , and squeezed through for an on-the-spot interview .
4 Adrian Hill , the former Cheshire match play champion from Bramhall , who turned professional last year , has also won through after an indifferent first season on the European Challenge Tour , which saw him back in 100th place in the order with earnings of just over £4,000 .
5 Nevertheless , adoption of the bill was only pushed through after an angry demonstration outside the Supreme Soviet building on Aug. 18 in protest at blatant delaying tactics by Gumbaridze .
6 A door from the library led through into an oak-panelled room with tall mullioned windows .
7 Attempts to lower unemployment by means of a boost to monetary demand will work through into an increasing rate of inflation because of sticky prices and wages and increasing expectations of inflation ( i.e. there is an absence of a money illusion ) .
8 Darwinian evolutionary thinking influenced him too , and his work on society is shot through with an evolutionary perspective , from the primal horde , a notion he derived from Darwin , to complex technological societies .
9 However , unlike Portugal , who showed glimpses of class , the German side tried to bludgeon their way through with an ill-tempered Claus Hammer as their star .
10 To bring information , the messenger : " I 'm getting a message through from an alien life form . "
11 Two lanes north and two lanes south cars poured through in an unbroken line ; container trucks , like cliffsides on the move , whammed into each other 's slipstream .
12 ‘ Echo ’ is a useful word , for that in a way is what the poem 's metric is based on ; there is no immediate similarity of stanza-form to Bilbo 's song , but once again the ‘ elvish ’ idea of poetry comes through in an unexpected subtlety .
13 Caroline Amphlett had left and it was switched through to an outside line .
14 Common themes included concern at failure to think through to an underlying purpose — the absence of any rationale .
15 A section of runway had been cordoned off that afternoon by the remaining twenty policemen who had strict orders not to allow anyone through without an official pass .
16 Well this , this is what I 'm saying , if it had been picked up and followed through at an earlier stage he would have been ensconced
17 They scraped through by an 8–7 margin and now travel to Upminster in the next round .
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