Example sentences of "[noun] through the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Wood had hinted , and not too darkly , about the ‘ lads ’ who knew how to get past the guards and into the mines at night : he had intimated that there was a prosperous smugglers ' route through the highest mountain passes to the coast where the ore would be taken over to Ireland or down to Liverpool and Swansea . |
| 2 | Is my hon. Friend aware that although it would be wasteful , unnecessary and expensive to renationalise the National Grid Company , the company has incurred great unpopularity due to its proposals to build pylons through the finest parts of our rural landscape in Cleveland ? |
| 3 | Similarly the sense of hearing , much needed in the battle for survival , ultimately gave pleasure through the earliest kind of music . |
| 4 | We put five brands of cracker through the toughest test of alla children 's party at the Abercromby Day Nursery in Toxteth . |
| 5 | One of his specialities is minimal invasive surgery ; executing the maximum work through the smallest incision . |
| 6 | Emperors are winter breeders , gathering on inshore sea ice to lay their single eggs in May and June , incubating and brooding chicks on their feet through the coldest months in temperatures that may drop below -50°C . |
| 7 | We 're sticking to our original plan , and they 'll have to accept it , although I sometimes think that , if we knew we were about to die , I 'd rather post Oliver through the nearest letter-box and just let him take pot luck . |
| 8 | Steering the RCN through the gravest provocation and confrontations — over industrial action , inadequacy of resources , management reorganisations , and the latest debacle over the implementation of a new clinical grading structure — he is strategically well placed to voice a considered opinion on the future of the profession in Britain as we enter the next decade . |
| 9 | Who knows how hard they might be along this slash through the fiercest mountain crag in Wales ? |
| 10 | Pulling his coat collar up around his nape , and plunging his hands into the minty depths of his pockets , Estabrook followed his guide through the nearest gap in the corrugated wall . |
| 11 | So I held my breath when conductor En Shao took the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra through the fastest fourth movement of Tchaikovsky 's 4th symphony I have ever heard , wondering what he would do with the resonations . |
| 12 | Heads now have the task of leading tired and disenchanted teachers through the greatest innovation of all . |
| 13 | As a result , grain farmers , who already include the latest reports form the agricultural futures markets in their morning reading , are learning to sniff the financial air through the latest exchange rate columns and business page comment . |
| 14 | The Governor administered the colony through the highest ranking civil servant , the Colonial Secretary . |
| 15 | You have that choice , that chance to do that for my patients and I tell you , to be with you , to be part of you , I 'm as a , I learn for you , I think of you , and I can just tell you , I wish you all the best , but I wo n't forget your responsibility to help the medical profession to make , with the work they do for a better tomorrow possible , due to your work , your hard attempts to give that financial ability through the best insurance policies on the market today . |
| 16 | Towns like Daroca combined highly productive wheat-lands and vineyards with huertas , but it was the Ebro that created a green line of prosperity through the barest country imaginable . |