Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] through [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , in 1988 , traces of 10 were found in Vietnam 's Nam Cat Tien swamp , where they presumably lived through the war . |
| 2 | Nor could labour interests be effectively pursued through the ballot box . |
| 3 | BORIS Yeltsin crossed his personal Rubicon last weekend when he declared special presidential rule until a referendum in late April — effectively slicing through the tangle of his constitutional power struggle with parliament . |
| 4 | We have successfully come through a war . |
| 5 | You go on to pass through a nature reserve at Redgrave and Lopham Fen , and on through Royden Fen , also managed as a nature reserve . |
| 6 | His understanding of Christ and Christianity had become badly distorted through a kind of super-spirituality . |
| 7 | All volcanic activity involves the expulsion of some gas but major landforms are only formed through the eruption of lava or tephra . |
| 8 | ‘ Be not cast down : if ye saw Him , who is standing on the shore holding out His arms to welcome you to land , you would not only wade through a sea of wrongs , but through hell itself , to be at Him . ’ |
| 9 | Start with a length of about seven metres of wire , precisely half of which should be spooled onto a shuttle thin enough to pass through the centre of the toroid . |
| 10 | This truck stood 9in from the floor , and was constructed to carry two milk churns and , at the same time was narrow enough to pass through the end gangways , so that the churns could be taken from one end of the train to the other . |
| 11 | Alan Rudge , BT 's technology director , encapsulated the scope of optical communications with the statistic that two strands of glass , tiny enough to pass through the eye of a needle , already can carry thousands of phone calls and hundreds of video channels . |
| 12 | Instead , I flushed the toilet and opened the door just wide enough to slip through the gap . |
| 13 | A body corporate may be a member of the committee ( r 6.150(3) ) but it can only act through a representative duly authorised in accordance with r 6.156 . |
| 14 | First , and probably of most practical significance , its actions will necessarily be those of its members or officers since , being a legal fiction , it can only act through the instrumentality of human beings . |
| 15 | The Morton line would only survive through a son born to James . |
| 16 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 17 | After a period of time you 'll feel that things have improved a bit in that area ( we hope ! ) , so flick through the book again and start trying to work at another area . |
| 18 | Well did Dag Hammarskjøld say that ‘ the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action ’ . |
| 19 | Erm was the original or the existing business only done through the post ? |
| 20 | I have personally pushed through a restructuring along these lines of the degree for which I am responsible … comprising eight subjects . |
| 21 | As they require considerable water quantities it is the insurance companies view that water is better applied through a sprinkler system as and where required . |
| 22 | As they do not actually devour the tissue but merely pierce through the skin to get at the sap inside , the problem of making contact can become a little more difficult . |
| 23 | The myths of Gallifrey talk about nameless horrors infesting our universe which were only defeated through the might of the Time Lords . |
| 24 | But the case of Sartre poignantly demonstrates that the return-to-history argument can really only succeed through a form of historical amnesia which conveniently forgets that history was almost impossible to find . |
| 25 | Tennessee Williams has written about several football heroes who suddenly drop through the floor at the height of their prowess . |
| 26 | The example a few hundred yards upstream cuts through the neck of an entrenched meander , but it is some 100 m ( 330 ft ) long so that considerable modification will have to take place before it becomes a true natural arch of the Ardèche type , if it ever does . |
| 27 | I 'd say what we can see is some of that heat surviving long enough to escape through a cave mouth , ’ she said to Ace . |
| 28 | Then they drove away and Carolyn carried with her the sight of her mother 's tense white face leaning down to look through the window at her . |
| 29 | I take my jacket off again and sit down to look through the War files … |
| 30 | The possibility that the generalist advice worker would become less valued through an increase in specialists has not been borne out in practice . |