Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fibre , or roughage , helps food and waste products to pass through the digestive system . |
| 2 | Figure 6.6b shows us the possible routes for trajectories to pass through the four shaded areas . |
| 3 | If schools feel that the National Curriculum does not get to the heart of the matter , that it is a relatively superficial means to more important ends and has important omissions , then is it not up to the schools to work through the National Curriculum or add to it to secure their goals ? |
| 4 | Mark Breland took less than four rounds to come through the third defence of his WBC welterweight title yesterday in Tokyo , opening up a bad cut above the right eye of his Japanese challenger , Fujio Ozaki . |
| 5 | Women had to cope with the dark , smelly ‘ cabinets ’ and first invite the rats to leave through the crumbling rusty holes . |
| 6 | It took her two weeks to go through the whole house — ten working days . |
| 7 | If there is an approach for the Timex workers to come through the proper channels , I will recommend on behalf of the Executive for the Standing Orders Committee that we hear a Timex worker before the end of the Conference . |
| 8 | On this picture , the cloud of material from which our Solar System formed had a very unusual history , taking as long as 4.6 thousand million years to travel from one spiral arm to the next and then taking several hundred million years to pass through the compressed region of the Galaxy , the arm itself . |
| 9 | Water takes thousands of years to filter through the ancient limestone of the Peak District , acquiring a natural balance of minerals , and emerges crystal clear and totally pure . |
| 10 | It is clear that their devotion to The Wedding Present was too strong , and they did not have the resources to see through the whole project . |
| 11 | For the first half of the meeting the division was split into two large committees to work through the agreed agenda . |
| 12 | So , in an effort to once and for all give you the facts on why we 're Fun Factor Number 1 , we 've called in a few experts to run through the complete bizzo . |
| 13 | Sitting with her legs spread wide she allowed his toes to skid through the oily mat of her saturated crotch . |
| 14 | I think we can help the Soviet populations to get through the coming winter , with , with , food aid , cos I think there gon na have a very bumpy winter er , in the economic sense , and then I think we should also , er , be involved in sorting out the military future of Europe , because it 's Europe as a whole that we 're talking about now . |
| 15 | Few , if any , rose from the lowest rank , but nonetheless there was a career path open to prison governors to progress through the intermediate rank of Assistant Commissioner to a full Commissionership . |
| 16 | Russians made repeated attempts to break through the encircling enemy — only and always to be driven back by the murderous fire of Francois 's 1st Corps , which barred the line of retreat along the route by which they had earlier advanced . |
| 17 | Nomes slept mainly at night , but needed catnaps to get through the long day . |
| 18 | The speed of separation — the solution only takes about 30 seconds to move through the outer tube — also prevents too much heating . |
| 19 | I am afraid that I have to confess that we allow a substantial number of people to remain simply because we have not had the staff to pursue their claims to remain through the various hoops available to them . |
| 20 | A and I can get er Ken and my clerks to ferret through the old contracts , and all the variations that we 've had to date , and come up with a suggested erm latest remit for the project coordinator to approve . |
| 21 | As we grow older , it takes longer for faeces to travel through the digestive tract and this may lead to constipation . |
| 22 | He similarly composed two leitmotifs to run through The Sleeping Beauty . |