Example sentences of "[to-vb] through [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In some puppies , the hole which allowed blood to flow through the umbilical cord is bigger than it needs to be ; once the cord shrivels up , the hole is left open and if it is too big , a small piece of fat may be able to pop through .
2 In accordance with the promptings of his noble nature , he envisioned that streams of water should be made to flow through the proposed fort and that its terraces should overlook the river .
3 The late Frank Howes showed an understanding of the problems racing a choreographer when he wrote : ‘ Every dance has its own rhythm , just as every dancer has an inborn sense of measuring time because each movement must be felt to flow through the whole body as well as the space in which it moves .
4 The water has to flow through the stiff bristles , which filter out particles and also encourage them to settle to the bottom of the chamber , by slowing the flow .
5 The gurgling noise was the rattling of Thomas trying to breathe through a restricted windpipe .
6 It 's like trying to breathe through a thick chador . ’
7 It is great to drive through a German city and see full colour posters for your band with a ribbon across the poster which reads : AUSVERKAUF ( sold-out ) .
8 After the nightmare images conjured up by John and Charles it was reassuring to drive through the historic streets of Sandwich and return to the sane world of the golf tournament .
9 I 've heard of farmers slipping the lads a few marks to drive through an old fence so they can get a new one free . ’
10 Time-lapse cinemicroscopy also enables each death to be confirmed as apoptotic : apoptosis is characterized by its extreme rapidity , taking about 30–60min to proceed through a diagnostic sequence of cytoplasmic blebbing , vesicularization and nuclear condensation .
11 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 .
12 When they are eight weeks old , for example , mouse pups that have been conditioned using mild electric shocks to their feet readily learn to swim through a simple water maze .
13 Fish encountering the modern nylon nets attempt to swim through the near-invisible mesh and become entangled , usually by the gills — hence the name gill-net .
14 In the loyalist camp an intense controversy on strategy was in progress and was to continue through the following months .
15 We are exhorted to get all women planning a pregnancy to consume a supplement of 400 µg folic acid or folate daily and to continue through the first trimester .
16 Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years .
17 Although every ideology forms its own criteria and language of evaluation , it is doubly difficult to be discriminating and to carry through a particular form of objectivity when reading accounts of conservation in socialist or ‘ socialist ’ countries .
18 This level of provision represents a very substantial commitment of resources to the enterprise bodies and it should be sufficient to enable them to carry through the wide range of tasks expected of them and to build on their excellent first year of operation .
19 The ability of Margaret Thatcher 's government to carry through the radical departure from ‘ consensus ’ economic policies in the 1980s was not inhibited by civil service power , although there were titanic struggles and some officials were replaced by others more sympathetic to the government 's policies .
20 Greece is not , on the evidence of the past , the sort of place to carry through the democratic reconstruction it now needs .
21 I undertook to make it one of the priorities of our presidency of the European Community later this year to carry through an improved trade and co-operation agreement with Russia .
22 When the time came for the cake to be cut , Breeze handed the knife to Susan — but her wrists were not strong enough to saw through the solid mass .
23 the participants for H Two will have already discovered , we are still tackling part of H One from yesterday , but , and I apologize that you will have to sit through the outstanding items of discussion .
24 Like most Chinese children unfortunate enough to grow up in the Sixties , Zeng 's education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution , and he had to sit through the shouting matches and brain-washing sessions just as everyone else did .
25 Self and Citrine frequently had to sit through the same item of business as it made its way through three , or in extreme cases five , formal meetings of different bodies before being finally approved .
26 er , we need to go through every single entry on , alongside darts , call them out to me for example , Elaine W one , Mid Northumberland , M N
27 That is , continuous dynamic dealing with minor perturbations is automatic and so also is the application of basic rules about safety ; for example , the system or some part of it might be programmed to go through a step-change function such as a shut-down if certain parameters exceed prescribed limits .
28 If you try to go through a closed door you may injure yourself ! )
29 If you have to go through a smoke-filled area , crawl with your head low
30 Japan 's exporters have already had to go through a punishing belt-tightening , prompted by the yen 's steep rise against the dollar after 1985 .
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