Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [to-vb] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said to function through the mechanism of the take-over bid so as to allocate the assets of companies to those managers who can put them to their best use , thereby disciplining managers to maximize profits or face the threat of a take-over bid ousting them from their jobs . |
| 2 | erm The penalty is fixed , it 's redeeming your car from the pound , and the traffic is enabled to go through the street in the way that the planners of the traffic system had intended . |
| 3 | Now on top of her injuries her insurance is set to go through the roof |
| 4 | My single bronze maggot bait on a size 20 Kamasan B510 barbless hook is set to trip through the swim one inch off the bottom to stop it dragging in any rubbish . |
| 5 | but that surprised the man in the queue and yet interestingly I think that and she said I was right in my assumption that that is part of the partnership philosophy of John Lewis that they work in partnership with their staff and in partnership with the community and they make their profit which is generated to start through the community which they sell to and therefore they quietly give back without wanting to play their own trumpets and in a sense I think that 's how it should be . |
| 6 | Searle 's position can have cogency only if he can show that a computer which is allowed to look through the window ( and preferably touch things as well ) could not succeed , though in these conditions the Westerner would succeed . |
| 7 | At some times , for some people , a binge may be just what is required to break through the wall of Dos and Don'ts within which one has become imprisoned . |