Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] through [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After he had walked a little distance , he noticed that the concrete slabs underfoot were glistening damply in the torch light from the constant dripping of moisture seeping through the joints in the roof from the earth above . |
| 2 | The trouble was that the salt had permeated the walls and penetrated through to the other side , where beads of moisture coming through the plaster accounted for the detachment of the wallpaper , which by this time was hanging loose in a depressing and derelict manner . |
| 3 | There is a wind of change blowing through the corporate environment these days , one that has long been predicted but that few expected to actually see . |
| 4 | A dull thud of hooves resounded through the valley as the horses checked pace and descended from the pasture on to the tree-shadowed bridleway that slants down the hillside to the ford at its base . |
| 5 | Then hundreds of hooves crashed through the ford , spattering water bright into the mist . |
| 6 | We turned back to retrace our steps as a clap of thunder echoed through the valley and the wild wind battered the trees . |
| 7 | Jean Piaget , in arguing that cognitive mechanisms constitute the actual organs of regulation during exchanges with the environment , emphasizes that the development of complexity arises through the assimilation of new functions on to older structures . |
| 8 | Our first sight of the restaurant was one of lanterns twinkling through the dusk . |
| 9 | However pleased she was to revel in the shimmersilk robes of garnet and lavender , their perfumed delight was as insubstantial as light through caramel compared with the security of the only place the fresh-born Chesarynth knew — and the gateway to the starscape of meanings called through the tides of her blood . |
| 10 | It is now estimated that about twenty kilograms of uranium escaped through the pile chimneys , posing a risk even greater than that from the short-lived 1957 accident . |
| 11 | At this level it may become essential to involve the senior buyer in high level buying decisions , in view of the large sums of money going through the department . |
| 12 | Crippled chairs with missing feet and tufts of stuffing coming through the cracks ; dead , useless grandfather clocks with faces but no hands ; embroidered hangings eaten with mould patches that made hunt scenes resemble maps of unknown worlds . |
| 13 | In the Senate in the same year 9 per cent of funding came through the parties , 62 per cent from individual contributions and 19 per cent through political action committees . |
| 14 | A soundless cry parted her lips and her body arched , instinctively seeking his , but when his hand lifted to unfasten the neck of her shift and she heard a sharp , tearing sound a shaft of fear lanced through the delirium , wrenching her abruptly into full wakefulness . |
| 15 | There is , then , some doubt about the validity of a linear model of economic change that proposes a sequence of labour shifts through the sectors . |
| 16 | Eventually she simmered down sufficiently to complete a few small office jobs , and she had just checked the answering machine when the sound of voices floated through the open front entrance . |
| 17 | The reputation of the new drugs had preceded them and a ripple of optimism ran through the sanatorium , though Doctor Staples had been careful to stress that they were still in the experimental stage . |
| 18 | Thus illegitimacy is no longer taken into consideration in determining the rights of succession of an illegitimate person , or the rights of succession to his estate , or the rights of succession traced through an illegitimate relationship . |
| 19 | Cries of distress poured through the bullet holes . |
| 20 | Reflecting the connection between good teaching and its management and good learning , institutional statements about the principles of in-service work include , as an example , " The ultimate aim of all in-service education for teachers is the improvement of pupil/student learning through the development of teachers as reflective , autonomous professionals who have not only developed a range of skills but also a broad knowledge of understanding of subject content and of the conceptual framework of teaching and learning . " |
| 21 | Andy : ‘ In the same series where we got ‘ Teethgrinder ’ from , there was this American girl who snorted so much cocaine in the ‘ 70s that now , when she breathes in deeply , it sounds like a gust of wind blowing through a haunted house in her head . |
| 22 | A gust of wind howled through the patio , lifted the edge of a tablecloth and dumped the contents of the drink-laden table on the floor . |
| 23 | There he lifted a corner of the curtain to peer out at the bright patches of daylight filtering through the trees . |
| 24 | Left alone at the table , with the faint shadow of daylight peering through the filthy window in the sloping roof , and with a bare bulb in the wall behind him , Greg looked at the piles of material before him , and his heart sank . |
| 25 | Even in the nineteenth century , many hundreds of vessels passed through the Straits each year , most of them small coasting ships but also a good many larger vessels trading between Europe and the East Indies ( Java and Sumatra were at that time prosperous Dutch colonies ) . |
| 26 | For example , one of the skills developed in the first few years of life involves the integration of data arriving through the different sensory channels . |
| 27 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 28 | Otherwise , the position of the feet along with the amount of weight placed through the booms onto the mastfoot determine the angle of heel . |
| 29 | The applied maps were computer generated and then colour printed , using information from a number of databases processed through a Geographic Information System New computer methods were developed during the project to enable these various databases , which included digitised geological linework and mine plans , raster-scanned topography and computer-coded borehole and geotechnical data , to be used in this way . |
| 30 | The severe , concrete Delbigot House ( 1968–73 ) sent great wedges of light crashing through the chunky , angular spaces . |