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

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1 The eyebrows go up in an arch that would make a complete circle if they carried on down , the lids over those eyes , likened to a cobra 's by Candice Bergen , narrow to a slit ; the gleaming white teeth flash through the pursed lips in what Vogue editor Diana Vreeland called a ‘ killer smile ’ .
2 In the same year , writing of how as good writers ‘ we have not borrowed , we have been quickened , and we become bearers of a tradition ’ , Eliot complains ( before quoting a revoicing of Seneca by Chapman which would be used in ‘ Gerontion ’ ) that in contemporary poetry , ‘ No dead voices speak through the living voice ; no reincarnation , no re-creation . ’
3 For any infinite sequence of symbols 1,2,3 and 4 allowed by Fig. 6.6b we can find a vertical line of points ( arrived at by taking away " two-thirds ' of an interval an infinite number of times ) from which trajectories pass through the four shaded areas in the prescribed sequence .
4 They are likely to be revised as the circumstances of mothers ' lives change through the 1990s .
5 These lines pass through the main Polytechnic data switch , a Micom 2000 , which permits approximately 100 end-users to connect to the 2755 ( up to 48 simultaneously ) .
6 While civil servants and directors wade through the legal quagmire of whether to record unmet needs , many staff who have to implement the policy are already up to their necks in it .
7 Production and shipment has already begun , and the contracts extend through the first quarter of 1994 .
8 Small seeds pass through the digestive tract but the large ones are retained in the crop for 5
9 As credits pass through the clearing system , they are collected in a specially designated account and transferred to magnetic tape .
10 The foundation for the Kaldor view has been discussed in Lecture 3 , where we brought out its relationship with the company sector and the extent to which individuals see through the corporate veil .
11 Vocational elements can be introduced as early as Module 1 , but will become more pronounced as the learners progress through the five levels .
12 WHEN the first customers step through the main entrance of Safeway 's new multi-million pound store at Stewartfield in East Kilbride , the last thing on their minds will be the work which has gone into bringing the building to completion .
13 Since the 1960s , some attention has been devoted to the signs of fertility women 's bodies produce through the menstrual cycle .
14 Around 1400 tankers pass through the northern and southern Fair Isle channels a year , of which 70 per cent are connected to the Sullom Voe terminal .
15 The standout in this department was ‘ Thorn In My Pride ’ , an excellent grunge- blues trek through the collective careers of the Allman Brothers and Led Zeppelin — or a cross between Mudhoney and Muddy Waters , if you prefer .
16 Duncan and Goodwin provide a conceptual framework for understanding the differential forms that these local political processes take , by claiming that particular local policies arise through the uneven development of a whole range of economic , social , cultural and political relations .
17 The poles pass through the split sleeves and are secured in eyelets on the sides of the inner .
18 The fact that the younger the subject is , the more able he is to recall details of past lives , seems to me to be quite simple to understand : it is only as our children pass through the Western educational system that they are taught to forego intuition and creativity in favour of logic and calculation .
19 Ancient wall-paintings have survived because Egypt is hot and dry ; now thousands of sweating , panting tourists surge through the scorching Valley of the Kings and into the deep , unventilated tombs , creating their own humid microclimate .
20 Instead of having the children go through the small group work suggested above , the teacher remains in role as the Pied Piper and the children are asked to elect two or three representatives who will seek out the Pied Piper and try to bargain with him/her .
21 The sound of bird song drifts down from the trees , and butterflies flutter through the still early evening air .
22 Till our bums wear through the three piece
23 Later , true haustorial cells push through the prehaustorial cells , grow through the host and eventually establish contact with the host 's food-conducting tubes .
24 For a long time he lay awake , feeling the vibration of Garvey 's snores clear through the trembling planks .
25 In the D minor Trio , music of a driving , almost Franckian pace , Cortot and his colleagues plunge through the second movement like men possessed .
26 The blastocysts continue to expand as their component cells progress through the next two cell cycles ( Figure 1 , panels 23–25 , Figure 2 , panels 9 — I 0 ) .
27 Five teams of firemen struggle through the early hours to control a blaze at Finkles Bar , Lorne Terrace , in South Bank , Middlesbrough .
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