Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ground-borne vibrations are particularly useful for communicating through the earth and many subterranean species make use of them . |
| 2 | She did not like flying and the mental energy involved in getting through the ordeal without flinging herself down in the aisle and drumming her heels was considerable . |
| 3 | Its route took it to Constantinople prior to passing through the southern part of the sprawling Ottoman empire to the Persian Gulf there to revert to a submarine route again before continuing to Karachi . |
| 4 | THERE is interest in society circles that William Waldegrave , the Cabinet minister responsible for pushing through the Citizens Charter , wears a signet ring on his right ( that is to say his wrong ) hand . |
| 5 | Energy secretary John Wakeham , who was responsible for seeing through the electricity privatisation last year , has pledged that legislation for the sell-off will appear in a new Tory government 's first term , with a commitment in the election manifesto . |
| 6 | the names of the officials responsible for carrying through the actions . |
| 7 | " Oh , kind sir , " Gabriel besought him , " I am so tired and hungry from travelling through the forest . |
| 8 | Undergraduate pupils of Jack 's throughout the middle years of the 1930s got used to passing through the outer drawing-room of his rooms at Magdalen where sat the mysterious figure of Captain Lewis , typing with two fingers on an ancient black portable . |
| 9 | Though he 's more used to peering through the undergrowth , he never misses Chelsea . |
| 10 | Certainly on Europe , they are hell-bent on pushing through the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 11 | There was something very appealing about going through the papers with a pair of scissors in your hand and then sticking your clippings into a book . ’ |
| 12 | Norman had become a bit weary of struggling through the Edinburgh traffic jams from his home in Strathaven each day for 16 months since being asked by Peter Wood , then Managing Director of Financial Services Division , to take over the running of RBIS while a management consultancy exercise was carried out on the company by the Boston Consultancy Group . |
| 13 | However , the modern public is capable of seeing through the disguise . |
| 14 | Compared with Charity , he was a mere minnow capable of slipping through the net as easy as winking . |
| 15 | Leptons include particles such as the familiar electrons , which orbit the atomic nucleus , and the mysterious neutrinos , which are almost undetectable particles capable of passing through the entire earth untouched . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm a great delegator , but it is important to delegate to those who are capable of carrying through the task and you must have a good report-back system . ’ |
| 17 | The roll , produced by ringing two adjacent sides of the triangle , when ff , is capable of coming through the ff of the full orchestra . |
| 18 | Valentin Mesyats , the first secretary of the CPSU committee in Moscow oblast ( region ) , said that the platform ignored the fact that besides the CPSU no other force was " capable of uniting the people , capable of coming through the difficulty of this transitional period and bringing the country out of the crisis " . |
| 19 | ‘ Only you are capable of going through the papers . |
| 20 | But I think what the Franks Report illustrates to me very , very clearly indeed is that , within a parliamentary democratic system of government , there are some issues which are insoluble in that the government of the day … are incapable of delivering through the House of Commons . |
| 21 | For some companies special offers are more difficult because their product may only be used by professions also , such as hairdressers , or it may be perishable and not suitable for selling through the post . |
| 22 | ‘ It must have been a bad dream , Oliver , ’ said Harry , breathless after running through the fields . |
| 23 | There is something very sweet about strolling through the streets of London with a fellow-countryman , and in the privacy afforded by their shining armour of courtesy and concern , to frankly recognize the difficult truth : that they are better than the people around them . |