Example sentences of "a [noun sg] through [pron] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By introducing a programme for the training of drawing teachers in 1871 , the school opened up a vocation to women : a vocation through which they could attempt to have more secure incomes . |
| 2 | That figure will be part of a programme through which we will spend more than £1 billion on housing next year . |
| 3 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 4 | A computer terminal , these days usually a Visual Display Unit , can be compared with a window through which you can scan your data or information . |
| 5 | It may well be that some accountant has shown the society a loophole through which it can escape the obligations laid upon it at its foundation in 1914 . |
| 6 | The spider may wait for developments sitting in the centre of the web or she may retreat to the side and lurk there with one of her eight legs resting on a cue-line through which she will feel movements in the trap . |
| 7 | Blake apparently broke one of the cast-iron sections of the frame , creating a space through which he could crawl , and then dropped down to the ground below , a distance of 22 feet , which was broken by the roof of a covered passageway . |
| 8 | Once I can make a hole through them it should n't be too difficult to get round into the outer cellar . |
| 9 | There was frequently a hair-tidy of the same design on the dressing-table , a little dish with a lid , and a hole through which one could push the hair that came out on the comb . |
| 10 | In the door was a spy-hole through which he could be observed . |
| 11 | To be more specific , he showed that , if chemical substances react in a medium through which they can diffuse , it is not always true that the reactants will become uniformly distributed . |
| 12 | Though I might , in working for a different future , find the struggle of women politically inspiring , I am unlikely to find a community in which women were not counted equal a medium through which I can gain a glimpse of God . |
| 13 | It was a lens through which he could view life , literature , and history , often with mischievous irony . |
| 14 | To escape this branding of myself as a bodily failure , I longed to be able to attach myself to an organisation stronger than myself , an association through which I could derive a feeling of physical achievement and personal status I would not otherwise possess . |