Example sentences of "[noun] through the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The request was first submitted a number of months ago , but all attempts through the usual channels have failed .
2 It 's identified generally with many of the glories of bourgeois cooking through the 18th and 19th centuries .
3 Some specific proposals could be made here , for example ( 1 ) a link between the St Leonard 's cycleway ( see Opportunity No.9 ) and the east end of the Meadows cycle route — eg via a suitably traffic-calmed Montague St. ; ( 2 ) a link from the West end of the Meadows northward to Princes St. A north-south route through the new developments to the west of Lothian Road is not suitable ( for this purpose ) because it would involve too long a deviation and the crossing of major roads .
4 In the second term the units of study relate much more to the major areas of interest of the Faculty , with students planning their own route through the available specialist units .
5 However , there seem to be no morphological studies on the actual uptake of trace substances and their route through the epithelial barrier .
6 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 .
7 After two days , in which it had become clear that Daod was organizing a drug shipment from Lebanon via Cyprus to Bulgaria , a well-worn route through the Eastern bloc into Western Europe , he decided to go home and sleep with his wife instead of staying on the job , as instructed , in case of overnight calls .
8 Greenaway colour codes the rooms of the restaurant , which mirror food 's route through the alimentary canal .
9 The formal relationships outlined above need to be complemented by an appreciation of informal linkages , such as the sharing of knowledge and experience through the regional branches of professional associations .
10 well you got paid for your contracts , they let your contracts through the last time
11 Carlisle Cathedral suffered badly from the attentions of garrisons between 1645 and 1652 , and York Minster only avoided serious damage through the personal intervention of the New Model Army commander , Sir Thomas Fairfax .
12 2.2 Secondly , the implementation of the National Curriculum through the nineties will mean that the ‘ horizontal ’ extension of school language teaching across the ability range will be followed by a ‘ vertical ’ extension up the age range , since a foreign language is to be a foundation subject for all pupils between the ages of 11 and 16 .
13 The three free-standing objects introduce complexity through the marked difference in content and philosophy .
14 Where a chief police officer believed that a march would cause serious disorder which would not be amenable to control he could seek a ban through the local authority to the Home Secretary .
15 Australian cases can be traced through the Australian Digest , Canadian through the Canadian Abridgement , New Zealand through the Abridgement of New Zealand Case Law .
16 Coming down from the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin there is no need to drive back the way you came , through Arette , because five miles from the top you can fork off to the right and come down in sylvan splendour through the very heart of the Forêt d'lssaux , before either turning sharp left down the valley of the Lourdios and a not very good road to Issor , or carrying straight on to follow one of two better , more or less interchangeable roads back into the valley of the Aspe near Bedous .
17 But as you leave the resort metropolis — once a tiny fishing village — and take the bumpy roads through the sub-tropical jungle , American standards are left far behind and real Mexico tilts a lazy sombrero in your direction .
18 Residents fled on foot through the wooded hills .
19 The momentary lapse gave Donna time to edge away and she pressed so hard on the accelerator she feared she might shove her foot through the very floor of the car .
20 ‘ They became alarmed because I had access to security force files of theirs , and all security force personnel through the central computer if I wished .
21 Building Societies also provide a broader range of services and have moved into areas traditionally viewed as the province of the banks , more so after the recent ‘ liberalisation ’ of their activities through the Financial Services Act ( 1987 ) .
22 It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships .
23 The membranes were then mixed with an equal volume of the resuspension buffer ( 20mM HEPES/arginine , pH7.4 , 10% sucrose , 2.5% Ficoll , 0.5mM DTT ) and extruded four times through the lipid extruder using one layer of Nuclepore polycarbonate membrane of decreasing pore size from 800nm to 400nm .
24 They drove speedily but safely along the main road that headed west through the mountainous inner regions of the island , skirting villages where black-shawled women sat in doorways , past almond groves and fields full of woolly black goats .
25 I slanted west through the pretty East Side , with its decorative dustbins , the paunchy awnings of the low-slung stores , the smell of dark hot trash , and dined blind with Fielding Goodney and Doris Arthur in a loud and airless media restaurant just five blocks from bubbling Harlem .
26 Our current pay structure , designed as a result of the 1990 job evaluation exercise , carefully reflects the skills and responsibilities of each job holder and , in addition , offers opportunities for staff to earn further rewards through the two higher rates which you mention .
27 It is calculated to stir the Greeks against the destructive influence of Achilles , whose self-indulgence has sent ripples of discontent through the Greek forces .
28 We can conclude that French woodwinds were being used in England from about 1675 , when they were apparently introduced by the Hotteterres , and were still being played there by leading musicians through the first quarter of the 18th century .
29 They represent by no means all that could be said : only study and practice can lead you to develop the ability to produce clear and precise meanings through the written word .
30 Vigorous lobbying through the Conservative backbench education committee in December 1984 secured a rapid retreat from a government proposal that parents of students should make a contribution towards their university fees .
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