Example sentences of "been [vb pp] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But where the delivery has been delayed through the fault of either buyer or seller the goods are at the risk of the party at fault as regards any loss which might not have occurred but for such fault . ’ |
| 2 | The SGA 1979 , s 20(2) provides that where delivery has been delayed through the fault of one of the parties , the goods are at the risk of that party until delivery . |
| 3 | So far 86 women artists have been honoured through the organisation which , in itself , is a wonderful achievement . |
| 4 | Piecemeal drainage and reclamation in the Cambridgeshire fens , carried out by Saxon farmers around Wisbech and Elm , have been traced through the detective work of archaeologists , using aerial photography and careful analysis of the evidence on the ground . |
| 5 | Further north , in Poland , extensive Romanesque work in stone and/or brick was carried out , but much of this has been altered through the centuries and the limited remains suffered damage in the Second World War . |
| 6 | How can its innately progressive potentials be contained in a form which has been developed through the operation of the market , and which , in Cutler 's argument , represents a culture completely external to its users , completely hegemonic ( not resistible in present circumstances ) , and having ‘ no need of artistic value … [ having ] become , effectively , an instrument of class oppression ’ ( Cutler 1984 : 291 ) . |
| 7 | This is not simply innate or pure ability , but ability which has been developed through the process of the curriculum ; not merely the ‘ good mind ’ but the ‘ trained mind ’ ( See Chapter 4 ) . |
| 8 | If the girl had been killed locally , she is small enough to have been carried through the alleys — perhaps even by a woman . ’ |
| 9 | Faust Stossen , their new Squad Sergeant , had once been lasered through the throat and wore a damascened silver voice box in place of his Adam 's Apple . |
| 10 | He had been stabbed through the throat . |
| 11 | It would have been unremarkable had this been done through the publication of explanatory leaflets and brochures emanating from the Ministry of Transport . |
| 12 | ‘ A workman , who had been injured through the breaking of a defective part in the machine with which he was working , brought an action of damages against his employers , and later convened as second defenders the manufacturers of the machine , who had supplied it to his employers , on averments to the effect that the accident had been caused by the fault of the manufacturers in that they failed to supply his employers with a machine which was safe for use by their servants . |
| 13 | The floor was littered with papers — coupons offering ‘ 3d off ’ soap powder and frozen peas , and literature about television insurance and reconditioned sewing machines — which had evidently been thrust through the letter box . |
| 14 | However , I shall return to the four themes which I identified at the beginning , and which have been threaded through the discussion . |
| 15 | Although there was no direct copying it was held that the copyright in the plaintiff 's packs had been infringed through the medium of the New Zealand kiwifruit Authority 's specification for packs and the court also seemed to accept the possibility that copyright can be infringed through a verbal description . |
| 16 | All four had been shot through the back of their heads with a single bullet as they slept . |
| 17 | The only real hospital case was a travelling salesman who had been shot through the foot . |
| 18 | He had been shot through the head . |
| 19 | By a singular misfortune Mr Bradley had been shot through the chest at the rampart when only the Magistrate was near at hand . |
| 20 | L/Cpl Edwards had been shot through the cheek and would have become unconscious immediately and died shortly afterwards , said consultant pathologist Dr Roger Williams . |
| 21 | Inside was the body of a man who had been shot through the mouth . |
| 22 | Like Valesio , he had been shot through the mouth , but this time the only sign of damage was a single discreet exit wound in the back of the neck . |
| 23 | This , yoked with the survival of unpaid feudal service on the lord 's land , the lord 's continued control of woodlands , common land , open fields and meadows used for grazing , and the continued obligation of the tenant to consume only alcohol which had been distilled through the lord 's own stills , meant that while in theory Prussian serfdom was abolished by 1850 , in practice it was not really seriously undermined in Pomerania until the agricultural review of 1865 . |
| 24 | In some companies this role has to a degree been formalised through the creation of audit committees made up of non-executives , their function being to review the effectiveness of the company 's auditing procedures and to liaise with the auditors . |
| 25 | He will know that £32 million of emergency food aid has been agreed through the EC mechanisms . |
| 26 | Erm the rose i has been used through the centuries . |
| 27 | The travellers had been transported through the hole in time to their place of capture . |
| 28 | The reality of it , the sights and sounds , the mystique and drama of the station have been filtered through the imagination of the artist . |
| 29 | They alleged that judicial procedures did not conform to international norms and that the confessions which had proved crucial in the convictions had been extracted through the use of torture . |
| 30 | In RENFE since 1976 and in BR over a far longer period , a wide range of agreements have been reached through the machinery , giving the unions influence over the determination of virtually all aspects of conditions of employment and work organization . |