Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] through " in BNC.

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1 In return the office-holder could recoup through tax farming , exemptions , and so on .
2 Much of the potential for transferability of good practice could come through a series of innovations which partnership might originate , provided it is prepared to transcend traditional structures .
3 The wind could blow through them and the sun shine upon them , unlike the courts of Nottingham .
4 Apparently no known tank force could break through a six-lane snarl-up , so the authorities have to be able to whistle up a traffic jam within minutes .
5 In extreme cases , if the dark areas of the artwork are not perfectly opaque ( say you used ink instead of dry transfers or crepe tape ) the UV light could pass through this and excessive exposure will affect the etch-resist varnish under the artwork — and the result can be that the whole of the etch-resist ink will be exposed , so that the foil pattern does not develop .
6 When you are next out on a walk , take a look and see of a wheelchair could get through a kissing gate .
7 John Durno , governor of Saughton prison , said yesterday that up to 200 prisoners could go through the programme in the year .
8 That Bess could see through her casement , the road that he would ride .
9 All Robert could see through the keyhole was the blur of Mr Malik 's grey jacket , passing and repassing ; he seemed to be running , now in one direction , now in another .
10 Before the dropping of the atomic bombs , the Americans had feared that the Russians would not honour their pledge to join the war against the Japanese , and it is believed that the Allied forces were held back in Europe , so that the Russian troops could advance through the eastern part of Europe into Czechoslovakia .
11 The duration of the very short-term financing which central banks could draw through the EMCF was increased to three and a half months ( an increase of one month ) .
12 If Michael Banks could get through the part having his lines relayed to him by radio , then so , the producer 's reasoning ran , could any other actor .
13 One moment she was running and dodging through the striations of ice and carmine and sloe , with the fear that the walls of Spiderglass could see through the ancient cliffs of Mars to where she finally crouched , exhausted .
14 Hounds could run through the place tomorrow … " it was Dada 's voice , and it sounded desperate .
15 An elderly woman had appeared out of the kitchen which Edwards could see through the half-opened door at the end of the small hallway .
16 Although this sovereign was half the weight and half the diameter of the original one , such was the international respect it enjoyed that people could travel through Europe confident that the coins would be welcomed wherever they went .
17 Although this sovereign was half the weight and half the diameter of the original one , such was the international respect it enjoyed that people could travel through Europe confident that the coins would be welcomed wherever they went .
18 Although this sovereign was half the weight and half the diameter of the original one , such was the international respect it enjoyed that people could travel through Europe confident that the coins would be welcomed wherever they went .
19 A man could creep through them . ’
20 I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed .
21 Those shuriken stars could slice through armour and carapace and bone and might cripple Scouts yet would not inevitably kill a superhuman body .
22 On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject .
23 ‘ Our defence experts have assured me that nothing of any real size could get through undetected .
24 A squat chunky man whose face was stitched by tiny red veins , his head rested on his shoulders like a box on a shelf , and the rasp of his voice could drill through any argument .
25 He showed how music could flow through a scene and not be broken up into short numbers which encouraged the audience to applaud each time .
26 It had to do something , because uncertainty had to be brought to an end ; but only enlightened bureaucrats at the centre could cut through the diversity of opinion in the provinces .
27 Here was the domain which glued the Imperium together since ships could slip through it to distant stars within days — or months at most — instead of taking impossible thousands of years over such voyages .
28 A blaster 's laser could cut through some metals , but Ace had a nasty feeling that even if the material above her proved susceptible , she might expend her entire powerpack on it without much effect .
29 United manager Keegan could push through a £750,000 deal for 22-year-old Hignett after the visit of Watford .
30 He said there was scientific evidence that the AIDS virus could pass through latex .
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