Example sentences of "through which the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It does not occur in western Europe A large stout worm up to 4.5 cm long , with a prominent buccal capsule and transparent cuticle through which the internal organs may be seen ( P1.III ) .
2 Success with self-consciously modest projects ( for example , a non-sectarian daily paper through which the existing left can talk to itself , before attempting a popular tabloid ) is the only way to build the confidence needed for any greater shift in the fundamental poles of national political culture .
3 There appeared to be a chain of dependency from private companies to the state with the Commercial Banks acting as ‘ merely a channel through which the Central bank fed industry with funds ’ ( Allen 1981 p. 50 ) .
4 Make sure that there are no small cracks or openings through which the emerging adult insect can escape .
5 Posidonius took the Roman victory for granted and analysed the series of crises through which the Roman state had passed in his own time .
6 A remarkable illustration of the explanatory convenience of egoism is the concept of the ‘ selfish gene ’ , through which the rational egoism which is so difficult to find in the hopelessly illogical world of men is finally tracked down in our ultimate genetic constituents .
7 Where Keynes and Pigou parted company was in the mechanism through which the requisite decrease in real wages would occur .
8 However , since it is more than a mere sign , it partakes of the reality it signifies and is a means of grace through which the atoning work of Christ is made effective in the life of the Christian .
9 They helped to propagate a language through which the working class could articulate their frustrations ; they provided radical literature , leaflets and newspapers ; they furnished agitators with greater financial means and mobility than those drawn from the working class ; and they took a lead in establishing underground organizations able to build links between workers in different factories and cities and to survive recurrent police assaults .
10 Strictly speaking , the king was nothing more than a servant , a vessel , a vehicle , through which the divine will manifested itself .
11 The ice to be melted must be of the transparent blue variety , which is free from fine cracks through which the hot water can drain .
12 I believe that she may be the focal point through which the Ancient Adversary will try to thwart the designs of the Dark Ones . ’
13 The mechanism through which the real wage rate adjusts to variations in aggregate demand in Keynes 's labour market analysis is ignored altogether .
14 Unlike the pluralist approach which when dealing with macro-political issues directs its attention towards attitudes , ethics , belief systems and individualistic cultural components , this Gramscian Marxist perspective investigates the linkages between economic structures ( such as landholding ) , national development ( such as the effect on artisan or fledgling industry of suddenly imposed competition with more advanced areas ) and the instruments of intellectual control through which the economic domination is legitimated .
15 ‘ The five codes create a kind of network , a topos through which the entire text passes ( or rather , in passing becomes text ) ’ ( p. 20 ) .
16 However , while dispute in the Reich centred on the political control of Ernst Röhm 's brownshirt empire within an empire , in Danzig the affair had more to do with petty jealousies and spite , through which the hazy outline of some dispute about the future and direction of the Party was just discernible .
17 In female worms the intestine terminates in an anus while in males there is a cloaca which functions as an anus , and into which opens the vas deferens and through which the copulatory spicules may be extruded .
18 Chrace is the main route through which the Dark Elves seek access to the Inner Lands .
19 His face throbbed and his eyeball was seared by the white glare through which the dark figures of the men were moving about their work .
20 The old channels through which the relevant resources flowed have dried up or been dug up .
21 More often than not , they 're no more than a glass through which the all-important text is transmitted .
22 Jesus of Nazareth was now the prism through which the various shafts of light in the Old Testament about the Spirit became luminous and in focus to them .
23 The Queen accepted the offer made by the directors of the Daily Mail of the Pilkington ‘ flat ’ glass case through which the modern public now view it .
24 However , this apparently self confirming synthesis appeared to be endangered by excessively specialized work , and even by some of the discursive themes through which the professional distance of the discipline from cultural policy and mobilization had itself previously been confirmed .
25 Archaeologists have come up with data at Dorestad , the trading emporium through which the Carolingian court had been supplied , showing protracted decline with , allegedly , a sharp downturn c. 830 .
26 … under the Chairman , at the head of a hierarchical service through which the normal flow of promotion may carry a qualified officer from the lowest rank to be a Commissioner .
27 They now looked towards the door through which the young fellow was making a hurried exit , and , somewhat impatiently , Aggie said , ‘ Come along with you , come along , ’ and led the way through yet another door and into a passageway , and so into a square hall from which a stairway rose .
28 In addition to Parliament , the other principal agency or institution through which the political leadership operates is the administrative machine .
29 Turning to the criticisms of the administrative machine through which the political leadership operates , the pattern was set in the early 1960s by Professor Brian Chapman 's British Government Observed .
30 The purpose of this chapter is to describe the rest of the machinery through which the political leadership operates outside Whitehall and this includes more than just the system of local government .
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