Example sentences of "through to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The barn , which has an asbestos protection layer , prevented the fire spreading through to a neighbouring potato store .
2 Previous difficulty in maintaining a pregnancy through to a live birth will be likely to be associated with a greater risk of a third or fourth miscarriage than if the woman 's previous pregnancies had been trouble-free .
3 Thomas unlocked it with the larger of his two keys , and taking from its sconce the last of the torches that burned along the passage , led the way through to a narrow spiral stairway , and began to descend without hesitation into the depths .
4 Knowing more about the voice also means realising that raising the voice and screeching on a higher pitch ( inevitable when excited ) is not the way to get through to a rebellious teenager who is deliberately testing your limits .
5 At the same time , the worker has at his command tools and machinery that would make him feel enormous strength but he feels impotent because he is involved in only one part of the pattern of mass production ; never experiencing involvement with a total process from the raw material stage through to a finished product .
6 The movies had broken through to a vast new public and everything was on a different scale .
7 They will then go through to a grand final .
8 That afternoon , hearing him talk about his sister , then lying beneath the trees with him , she had really thought she had finally broken through to a real live human being beneath the glacial exterior .
9 In summary then the difficulties for the Archive lie in trying to identify users ’ needs and in providing them with the appropriate service on a range from an on-line determined access ( in which the Archive itself is relatively ‘ transparent ’ ) through to a supportive guided approach .
10 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 . ’
11 On the other hand , poorer residents , in spite of their organisation and activity , could often do very little to press their demands through to a successful policy outcome .
12 erm The only way to get through to a diverted phone is to call it through the number it 's diverted to .
13 Okay , yes , and the only way to get through to a diverted number is to call the number it 's diverted to .
14 At one extreme , there could be a continuous process in which a sort of chain reaction of biochemical processes in a particular ensemble of cells led inevitably from the early , vulnerable phase through to a final fixed form , like the hardening of glue or the developing of a photograph .
15 This could range from a small lightweight kite to fly on a single line , through to a four-line aerobatic kite .
16 MIDDLESBROUGH won through to a moneyspinning cup semi-final against Manchester United last night .
17 It is inevitable , therefore , that problems in this respect will carry through to a tentative application of economics to law .
18 The scales across Fenna 's shoulders and haunches were as large as dinner plates , and thick , heavy and dry — they changed colour in different lights , from dull pewter through to a dark red , the colour of dried blood , or the murky green of the lower waters of the Amazon River .
19 ‘ He was a young man , and I am sure that his message got through to a great many people .
20 Such conflicting views or theories of style will concern us for the remainder of this chapter , but rather than argue that one view is wholly superior to another , we shall try to harmonize the apparent conflicts , so that at the end of the chapter , we shall have worked through to a balanced view of what stylistics is about .
21 Beardsley combined with former Liverpool team-mate Gary Ablett to put Everton through to a lucrative home tie against Chelsea in the last 16 of the Coca-Cola Cup .
22 They stretch from aero-engines and power stations to the NBC national-television network to electric lighting to plastics to medical-diagnostic gadgets through to a huge near-bank , General Electric Financial Services .
23 In order to win through to a match-racing play-off , he needed to finish among the top six nations at this regatta .
24 Successful schemes always had someone who could be identified as the driving force , someone who pushed and who steered the project through to a satisfactory launch .
25 Then you ring Dial-A-Ticket ( 0532–710710 ) which is generally engaged , so you re-dial at frequent intervals till you get through to a recorded ticket office girl blotering on about similar information .
26 Then Wickham was invited through to a back room and a telephone .
27 Two standard layouts re available : layout A incorporates a pair of very similar quarter cabins ; while layout B retains the quarter berth on the starboard side , with a head and shower compartment , with a door through to a capacious lazarette .
28 ABERDEEN flirted with disaster at Kilbowie last night before two goals in the final 15 minutes from Scott Booth took them through to a Scottish Cup semi-final against Hibs at Tynecastle on 3 April .
29 I took him around the garden and told him simply , in the hope that it would feed through to the Romanian government , that we were making the most enormous efforts to try to break this COCOM problem .
30 They eventually got the message after about 30 minutes that we were not prepared to bribe them with anything and let us through to the Romanian side .
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