Example sentences of "passed [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the straps passed through a metal buckle fastened to the end of the other strap , and could be clamped in the buckle by rotation of a clamping lever forming part of the buckle . |
| 2 | If ordinary drainage fittings are used it is vital that the inner parts of both inlet and outlet are passed through a 90° elbow to create a vortex . |
| 3 | High above them , the base of the Bridge passed through a cone of semi-transparent cables , which were anchored all around the edge of the depression , before continuing downwards to merge smoothly with the bubble itself . |
| 4 | The County Council 's own environmental consultants reported that outer northern routes passed through a mixture of urban fringe landscape north of Harrogate , and some of the highest quality countryside around the two towns , along the Nidd Gorge . |
| 5 | The British establishment passed through a non-event of that kind in the weeks leading up to February 1974 . |
| 6 | The other end of the wire is passed through a hole in the brass plate and soldered into the end of a short piece of brass rod . |
| 7 | The route passed through a wood and George was off like a Baldersdale-bred hare . |
| 8 | for example when an electric discharge is passed through a gas . |
| 9 | In food manufacturing any item that can be conveniently passed through a traywasher or similar equipment , with a suitable rinse cycle , would benefit from so doing . |
| 10 | It first gained popularity in the ancient world where , in an effort to stop adolescent boys from masturbating , the foreskin was pulled over the end of the penis and held in place by a ring passed through a couple of specially pierced holes . |
| 11 | They drove along the empty country roads , then passed through a couple of small , sleepy villages , the soft golden stone of the houses reflecting the warm sunlight . |
| 12 | The stairway passed through a stone arch and ended in a narrow ledge near the roof of the great cavern where the Wyrms roosted . |
| 13 | The aqueous extract was then passed through a Sep Pak C18 cartridge ( 500 mg ) prepared by previous washing with 5 ml 100% methanol followed by 10 ml water . |
| 14 | On the southern edge of the Minoan city , the road passed through a cemetery : the Temple Tomb was the principal building in this area . |
| 15 | In catering all manner of items can be passed through a dishwasher , to secure disinfection , including kitchen utensils and tools , slicer parts , baines marie tubs , chefs ' knives , cutting boards and savoy bags . |
| 16 | Manual cleaning may be combined with the use of machines with equipment parts being passed through a dishwasher . |
| 17 | Violette 's expressive face in the mirror passed through a variety of emotions . |
| 18 | In the process of softening , hard water is passed through a bed of ion exchange resin held in a vertical cylindrical vessel . |
| 19 | Dr Wilder Penfield discovered that , by touching a specific part of the brain with a mild electric current passed through a probe , he could reactivate memories and responses to these events in his patients . |
| 20 | A drawer can stop the payment of a cheque lost or stolen by immediately informing the bank , giving the cheque number and payee , providing it has not already been passed through a bank . |
| 21 | During the first half of the 16th century , the mill passed through a number of hands before being sold by John Sandford to the Clutterbuck family , who owned and worked it until fairly late in the 18th century . |
| 22 | I waited in the corridor for our blanket and any message for Sister Casualty , and brooded on the baby 's chances of survival , how any mother could have made herself pack her own baby in a carrier-bag , and what kind of thoughts passed through a woman 's mind when she walked away after abandoning her baby in a telephone-box , or anywhere else . |
| 23 | While Alexander III and his son Nicholas II ( 1894–1917 ) remained resolutely committed to unvarnished autocracy , Russia 's traditional social structure passed through a Process of profound transformation . |
| 24 | To test such a wide-band network ( Fig. 5 ) , the output of a white noise generator is passed through a notch filter which cuts a slot in the spectrum at a narrow band of frequencies around . |
| 25 | The customer 's card is passed through a terminal at the point of sale . |
| 26 | This machine resembled a set of assembly-lines along which orders passed through a series of check-points . |
| 27 | It has to be admitted that the railway has passed through a period of financial difficulty but now appears to be settled and operating a successful service of trains . |
| 28 | From Allexton to Medbourne is only five miles straight across the hills , yet we have passed through a period of some three hundred and fifty years in the history of the landscape . |
| 29 | It was a stylistic departure for Chloe but not one at odds with the image of the house or , more importantly , its feminine , peach-packaged floral fragrance familiar to every woman who has ever passed through a department store perfumery . |
| 30 | Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s ? |