Example sentences of "it [was/were] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was through the French pub that he met the gallery owner , poet and denizen of Bohemia , Victor Musgrave . |
| 2 | But while it was still a live issue , it was amusing to see how ready people were to accept Steele 's defence that it was through the machination of such a crusted establishment figure as Avrion Mitchison that Steele had been invited to repeat his work in a scientific environment for the purpose of discrediting it — a defence that compounds bad science together with bad scientific journalism . |
| 3 | Thus , it was through the work and recommendations of its special committees that the Institution took cognisance of what was happening in the world around it , and was able to lead its membership toward a more enlightened view of educational thought and progress and away from the traditional one of on-the-job training supported by evening or postal tuition surmounted by the Institution 's examination . |
| 4 | It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor . |
| 5 | ‘ She wanted to know where we all met and I told her that it was through the vibe . |
| 6 | It was through the need to obtain money for this that I took the part-time job with Mrs Morton and her husband , Weary Willy . |
| 7 | It was through the agency of the chansons that the young man might acquire a sense of honour and a sense of shame . |
| 8 | It was through the work of the library committees that the first of the project 's stated objectives was most clearly achieved , and we have seen how the proposal documents embodied clearly defined objectives which did relate the development of the library to the curriculum experience of the children . |
| 9 | It was through the Society 's occasional Newsletter that I came to hear about , and attend , a residential weekend course at Horn castle College of Adult Education in Lincolnshire . |
| 10 | Nor was the observer impotent , for it was through the potency of the observer that these children took their being and took the floor . |
| 11 | Yet it was through the derided Teenybop that the next pop generation came , as young women quickly moved from varieties of Osmond to something a bit meatier — men who instead of masking the femininity of the adored object , flaunted it and made it part of the package . |
| 12 | " Actually , it was through the female line , " he began , wondering how much he meant to explain , but they had ceased to listen to him . |
| 13 | It was through the control of land use that post-war cities would be given their orderly structure ; major activity zones , such as residential , commercial , industrial and open space , would be sharply separated from each other . |
| 14 | It was through the use of tactics such as these that the leaders of the LNA sought to shift the representations of sexuality which had been crystallized by the medical profession and their sanitary supporters . |
| 15 | It was through the Germania that Nietzsche encountered the piano score of Tristan in 1861 , and though this and other Wagnerian topics figured prominently in Germania discussions , they had little place in Nietzsche 's own contributions . |
| 16 | I could see who it was through the plastic bit . |