Example sentences of "[vb pp] through [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ninth-century annals and histories deal directly with public affairs and provide a more or less reliable framework of political events ; but they too are shot through with perceptions of the miraculous , and they are , at the same time , highly personal works ( as historical writing usually is ) , full of bias and image-making , whether written ( as many were ) for the king 's entourage , or for an audience far away from the court . |
| 2 | All of these descriptions are shot through with implications of reasoning from means to ends ; for human beings to perform similar actions would , under normal circumstances , be to act purposively , with conscious intent . |
| 3 | Instead , the sometimes delicate and often ravishing songs from the aforementioned recent LP get shot through with bolts of pure electricity . |
| 4 | Government by minority is usually bad government ; in no truly democratic country could a disaster like the poll tax have been pushed through in defiance of public opinion , wasting billions of pounds and causing misery to millions of people . |
| 5 | Soon the words come off the subjects , the cone becomes a ‘ Kone ’ with its mass sliced through with layers of transparent plastic to make a more categorisable kinetic work . |
| 6 | The system operates rather like an ‘ electronic reference book ’ , whose data-filled pages can be read through by means of a hand-held signalling device pointed at , or linked to , a specially adapted television receiver . |