Example sentences of "[to-vb] through the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Greece is not , on the evidence of the past , the sort of place to carry through the democratic reconstruction it now needs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And few of the people who hit the glass ceiling are inclined to go through the additional pain of a complaint to the government or a court case . |
| 10 | Throughout the dispute my technique was to go through the front door — I refused to be smuggled in — and then ask for a deputation of the demonstrators to come and talk to me . |
| 11 | There 's no need to go through the usual rigmarole of minimizing your word processor application , opening a spreadsheet , typing in the data and then copying and pasting it back into the word processor . |
| 12 | The adventurers will probably want to go through the usual routine of tipping the earth out of the coffin , smashing it , and suchlike , but then they have the pressing problem of getting out of this room . |
| 13 | HARRISONS & Crosfield must really dislike being classified as an overseas trader if it is willing to go through the complex process of changing its listing only to end up as a miscellaneous industrial . |
| 14 | In fact , you had to go through the humiliating procedure of explaining to everyone that it was indeed a public school . |
| 15 | All four were taken to a hotel to go through the agonising ordeal of kissing goodbye to the baby they had thought was theirs . |
| 16 | When buying or selling your home , the one certainty is that you will have to go through the legal process commonly known as conveyancing . |
| 17 | So whatever 's in there ca n't get out up there it 's got to go through another pipe it 's got to go through the other pipe . |
| 18 | Of course I 'm sorry , for some strange reason I thought we were going that way , I 've got to go through the other way have n't I ? |
| 19 | We 're not supposed to go through the new Lab anyway . |
| 20 | Er , I make the point I think that , erm , we should oppose the er , Deregulation Bill if it 's based on providing deregulation by Ministers , because I think that 's a constitutional point that is of great import , but the , the rest of it erm , are really sets of principles that I hope you 'd agree to , subject to amen amendment and dis discussion , because the information that we got is that the consultation period is going to be very tight indeed , and that it might not be able to go through the normal committee procedures in order to put things through erm , with er , proposals in that , er , in that respect . |
| 21 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 22 | If you are not a designated area , then you have to go through the due process of Court Orders and notices and move out in twenty eight days or something , you know , it 's a long , expensive process , which does not have to take place when a district is designated . |
| 23 | They probably have neither the time nor the inclination to go through the necessary learning process , and particularly so now that the more modern battery-powered devices are available and are so efficient . |
| 24 | To collect the takings , er from the vending machine you have to go through the adjacent community room into a small box room at the far end . |
| 25 | Not only was the company interested exclusively in cheap pictures for the local market , but also Dean had to go through the ignominious process of securing cast approval on his pictures from Solly Newman , the head of the company 's UK subsidiary , whom he regarded as both ‘ illiterate ’ and ‘ over-shrewd where money was concerned . ’ |
| 26 | It is , of course , desirable to check that nothing has been forgotten and to this end it is usual to ask an operator to go through the designed procedure while observing what he does and also observing that the system performs as expected . |
| 27 | Indeed , it was March that year before I managed to obtain a false set , which meant I had to go through the entire winter without a tooth in the top of my mouth . |
| 28 | it would take too long to go through the entire programme , which is studded with jewels , but if you can dip into it , try the two Passacaglias ( Kerll 's and Muffat 's , in D minor and G minor respectively ) , the deep and moving Allemande which opens Froberger 's Suite No. 20 ( it bears the inscription , in French , ‘ Meditation on my future death , to be played slowly and discreetly ’ ) , or his Fantasia No. 2 , which follows it here ; try too Buxtehude 's extraordinary Choral Suite Auf meinem lieben Gott ; or Weckmann 's two Toccatas … |
| 29 | Under current practice a user wanting to access a central data base in order to determine boundary conditions , will have to go through the following procedure ( similar to the remote operator , discussed earlier ) : I ) identify all relevant drawings , 2 ) inspect the relevant drawings to determine the required information , 3 ) use the information to determine interference . |
| 30 | He referred in indignant terms to the action of less than 50 members ( largely socialist ) in voting that the society should be represented in Parliament and on local bodies only by those who choose to go through the Labour party , whilst all members were called upon to pay the cost . |