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

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1 She distrusted the institutions through which they exercised influence from the moment that supreme power seemed within her grasp .
2 However , he thought that this meaning had evolved from the original word for a straight track , via the clearing of the woodland through which it passed , to the more common present-day meaning .
3 The second and third albums , ‘ Freewheelin ’ ( 1962 ) and ‘ The Times They are a Changin ’ ( 1963 ) , established him as a real and original talent , as both singer and songwriter , with a message that seemed as arresting and vital as the times through which he was fortunate to be living .
4 A lot of it was from ‘ Achtung Baby ’ , the album through which they reinvented themselves and took their act to new heights .
5 But it is also true that journalists and editors know full well that public relations is an important source of information for their work and often can be the instrument through which they may obtain their story .
6 The swamps through which they waddled were thick with great horsetail and clubmoss trees .
7 Throughout the discussion I refer interchangeably to the state , which is the political organization of a society , its government , the agent through which it acts , and the law , the vehicle through which much of its power is exercised .
8 Without the pounds , boats in passage might have to wait while the locks above filled with water , before the lock through which it is passing can fill .
9 The plaintiff claimed damages for negligence on the part of BRB due to the disrepair of the fence through which he had passed .
10 To stay in existence , each of these communities must constantly remind us and themselves , of the violence through which they were subjugated in the first place .
11 The relationships through which we work are no less real than those we engage in outside work , and it seems inevitable that they will raise the gamut of feelings , some of which , some men and women will be unable to resist acting out .
12 Then it was gone , tail vanishing under the bushes through which he had crawled .
13 While it is valuable to show your awareness of complexities in the words through which we conceptualise , scare quotes may not be the best way of doing so .
14 Unlike the earlier horders who crossed the Julian region to descend upon the rich plains of Venetia , the Lombards settled , and fortified the passes through which they had invaded , to secure their eastern boundary against the infiltration of further invaders .
15 During 1907 Le Queux travelled throughout West Africa , the Balkans , and Turkey , and acquired an intimate knowledge of the activities of the secret services in the countries through which he passed in Europe .
16 With atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide expected to double in the next century , plants would open the stomata through which they breathe for shorter periods reducing the transpiration of water and providing less water for cloud formation .
17 They always find out as much as possible about the areas through which they move , and we can do the same .
18 In the little hall at the bottom of the stairs one door opened into a side passage leading to the street ; the other , to the back of the shop through which he had to pass to reach the studio .
19 Philip becomes aware of the process through which we invent our own identities based on the fictional paradigms at our disposal .
20 I think I should start by stressing the process through which we have gone in order to prepare this report has been somewhat different this year from that which we followed in the past and
21 Most clients are first time offenders who are ignorant of their rights and the process through which they are being put ( Thomas and Smith 1978 ) .
22 He was also taught to respect money and the process through which it was earned .
23 But what we are seeing now is the fragment of the body , the body experienced minutely ; we get an art by women that insists upon bodily experience as the subject for the work , as the process by which the work is made and as the process through which it is experienced .
24 What is critical to Quinn is the form of rationality and the process through which it is formulated .
25 He can not approach it by superimposing successive and ever more accurate ( more informed ) mental approximations to the real thing ; he can not name it , like an object , without fear of equivocation ; but rather it lies here , in the moment through which he is passing , and the important thing is to see that .
26 Yet to give instant opinions on the long term impact of the many educational reports , speeches , Parliamentary debates , learned researches , books , ideas and happenings which marked the years through which I worked as a teacher was quite impossible .
27 The incident log file will contain a report of all modules which could be entered into LIFESPAN together with the associated DC number and the name of the package through which it is being entered .
28 Larsen saw that the skylight through which they had entered was situated at its midpoint , its twin a few feet away on the opposite slope of the roof .
29 The evening was warm and calm , but the side-streets through which he wandered at random were almost deserted .
30 If there were absentees from the gathering of Khans and Noyons which waited sycophantically in the antechamber through which they left the palace , Alexei supposed they were the result rather of an excess of celebration than of flight in the face of possible discovery or inquisition .
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