Example sentences of "[noun sg] through [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proprietor thrust aside the plastic tassels that filled the doorway through to the back of the dry cleaner 's and dumped his shopping bag on the floor next to an ironing board . |
| 2 | Continued attack on the upstream sides of spurs and enlargement of the meander leads to a tendency for a break through at the neck of the spur , as it becomes thin ( Fig. 9.12A ) . |
| 3 | Your Lordships therefore heard the case through to the end of the argument . |
| 4 | Although most biographers ( encouraged by Darwin 's own recollections ) have played down the Edinburgh episode , the most recent studies have noted that he developed an interest in invertebrate zoology here that was to form a mainstay of his scientific work through into the time of the Beagle voyage . |
| 5 | Although the conceptual foundations of the challenge to the old order were different , transcendental anatomy raised issues that would be associated with the theory of evolution through into the era of Darwinism . |
| 6 | As Sutton pushed each new recruit through on the grounds of urgency , he would gain a new ally . |
| 7 | Is it , for example — this could be one reason — because a clear manifesto commitment must be fulfilled , so Conservative Members feel obliged to rush the Bill through at the end of the Parliament ? |
| 8 | I say publicly that they are mistaken in trying to push this Bill through in the face of severe and fierce opposition , not just from committed Labour supporters but from rank-and-file Conservatives and from people who have no particular political We were lucky enough to see my hon. Friend the Minister of State a couple of times , and we tried to explain to him how we in Leicestershire would lose out . |
| 9 | IBM had originally agreed to help finance the project through to the end of 1992 , and has since been helping Supercomputing Systems to meet its payroll on a week-by-week basis . |
| 10 | Wonderful winter-flowering pansies provide the essential riot of colour and bloom relentlessly from late autumn through to the beginning of summer . |
| 11 | Child abuse is a highly sensitive topic these days and my research proposals were subject to the scrutiny of a number of people , ranging from the local authority 's research officer through to the director of social services . |
| 12 | Lemminkainen was able to weave and cast spells to win his way through to the end of his journey . |
| 13 | Voluntary personal abstention continued in a modest way through to the end of American slavery but plans positively to develop free-labour cultivation in the American South , India or West Africa came to little in the 1850s and the British government never gave any serious consideration after equalisation of the sugar duties beginning in 1846 to a policy of discriminating in favour of free-grown produce . |
| 14 | At least on this occasion , Becker had played his way through to the semi-finals of the eight-man exhibition event , organised by his manager , Ion Tiriac , before pulling out . |
| 15 | HERE they are , folks — the super grandmas ( plus one grandad ) who have won their way through to the final of The People/Cadbury 's Roses Grandparent of the Year Competition . |
| 16 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 17 | You can enter from the main road running along Teesdale but there is no way through at the top of the dale , unless you travel on horseback , or on foot , if you possess the stamina and know how to use a compass . |
| 18 | Challenge worked her way through an area strewn with salmon cages and creels and with some difficulty found her way through into the lee of the island , which was now illuminated by a coastguard auxiliary 's searchlight . |
| 19 | BAe said in last year 's rights issue document that the contract would provide business worth about £2 billion a year through to the end of the century . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , despite these problems there will be growth in synfuels production through to the end of the century and beyond with most of the growth resulting from new projects supported by governments or from already established programmes . |
| 21 | Meanwhile Davies has been busy with the camera and his latest 16 x 20 inch black-and-white prints of sharply-shadowed New York store fronts are on at Sonnabend through to the end of the month . |