Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He belongs to a paper society which goes through the motions of life , in the air , notionally . |
| 2 | er I 've got several favourites , er the one at Thrupp , Hampton Gay which I mentioned , where the train disaster was , that 's a particularly nice one because it 's along very nice stretches of canal and river , I like the one er up at er the Rollright Stones , and , and I like the ones in the Chilterns as well , there 's a couple in the Chilterns , one at er Watlington Hill , just outside the town of Watlington , and er one which goes through the grounds of Stonor Park , but er superb scenery up there obviously with the beech woods and so on . |
| 3 | The research has also revealed a ghostly army which marches through the village , and a strange old system of farming … based on thirteen wooden balls in a sack |
| 4 | It is , therefore , the arc of a great circle , the plane of which passes through the centre of the sphere . |
| 5 | A proposal to make the A628 , which passes through the heart of the Peak District National Park , into a dual carriageway has been scrapped by the Department of Transport ( DoT ) . |
| 6 | Chepstow is also the southern end of another excellent long distance path — the Wye Valley Walk which passes through the heart of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , keeping close to the river bank where possible . |
| 7 | The best way of preventing scale , however , is to replace the cylinder with an indirect one where the same water is circulated round and round the ‘ primary ’ circuit ( the one which passes through the boiler ) which , once it has given up its chemical salts , is in effect softened so that no more will be deposited . |
| 8 | Two sluice gates and ancillary equipment will be built to safeguard the water quality of Royle 's Brook , which passes through the site into the River Wyre . |
| 9 | Basically it means that the nervous system which passes through the wrist in the carpal tunnel has been stressed and the best cure is rest , or in the case of trigger finger , an injection or even an operation . |
| 10 | As a result of these anti-avoidance provisions , the foreign business carve-out is excluded , and the general COB Rules apply in relation to the customer concerned , where : ( 1 ) A UK office executes a transaction with or for a UK private customer on the instructions of a non-UK office ; or ( 2 ) A UK office gives investment advice in relation to any transaction to a non-UK office , which the non-UK office passes on to ( or uses for the benefit of ) a UK private customer if ( in either case ) : ( a ) the UK office itself transmitted the order to a non-UK office of the firm ( even if a different one from that instructing it ) ; ( b ) the UK office has itself advised the customer in relation to the transaction concerned ( and the customer has then directly or indirectly given the order to the non-UK office which deals through the UK office ) ; or ( c ) the UK office has advised the customer to deal through or seek advice from a non-UK office of the firm ( even if the relevant prescribed disclosure was made ) . |
| 11 | The system is very smooth , with actions selected either by moving the cursor to the top of the screen , or by clicking down the other mouse button which scrolls through the actions . |
| 12 | All volcanic material which falls through the air is described as tephra , while pyroclastic flow deposits result from the rapid ‘ flow ’ of pyroclasts mixed with abundant hot gas . |
| 13 | If your home has a loft , heat which escapes through the ceiling could be substantially reduced by insulating your loft floor . |
| 14 | My village in central Vietnam is a small one , lying close to a river which winds through the rice paddies . |
| 15 | The Vardar river , which flows through the centre of the Macedonian republic , reaches the Aegean Sea near Salonika . |
| 16 | The river has been dammed to form Lake Powell , which extends through the Glen Canyon Recreation Area . |
| 17 | The government or political executive has as its instrument for the business of governing , the administration or bureaucracy , which extends through the ministries and departments , to a variety of institutions such as public corporations , banks , and others ( particularly the institutions of education and the media ) . |
| 18 | Look for music that takes the plunge into the infinities of outer or inner space , rather than music which paddles through the shallows of everyday feeling . |
| 19 | Keep the line of broken wire fence which descends through the wood to a gate leading onto a broad track . |
| 20 | It is in this sense of ‘ cognitive perspective ’ ( as Peters puts it ) that we can talk of the transcendence which comes through the life of reason , without resort to the metaphysical world picture of heavenly spheres of intellectual existence . |
| 21 | Officials said they would lead to danger on the busy A689 which runs through the middle of the community . |
| 22 | Is my hon. Friend aware that large sections of the River Darent , which runs through the constituency of Dartford — hence the name Dartford — have largely disappeared ? |
| 23 | Unless there is an injury or an hereditary problem , there is no excuse for it and I must admit that there is this stubborn streak which runs through the breed . |
| 24 | Then some of her pupils walked the Pennine Way , which runs through the land around Low Birk Hatt , and she sent a message and a box of chocolates with them . |
| 25 | So am I am I right in thinking that the western relief road is catering for a north south through traffic element , but its primary purpose is to provide relief to the main e the present A sixty one which runs through the centre of Harrogate and again would seek to distribute traffic around the network and bring it in on other radial roads from the West for example ? |
| 26 | They single out ‘ tension in the family ’ as ‘ a theme which runs through the interviews in a variety of forms ’ . |
| 27 | On to the main road , which runs through the island and , apart from the sheep eking out a sparse living on the dead heather , there is little moving until I come to the head of Whalfirth , a long arm of the sea which pushes in from the west until it nearly cuts the island in half . |
| 28 | Pausing only for a brief tongue-twister — she did that very well , Karen , where your tongues circle each other tantalizingly , barely touching — we gave chase along the footpath which runs through the meadows bordering the river . |
| 29 | It uses its whole , vertically flattened body as a swimming surface , which undulates through the water as it swims . |
| 30 | Almost any of these writers might have supplied , for instance , details of the importance of the wind in primitive supernatural beliefs , but the idea of ‘ the wind 's singing ’ is also a prime romantic conceit , as seen in the ‘ gentle breeze ’ which wafts through The Prelude , or in the notion of the Aeolian harp . |