Example sentences of "through [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was mid-autumn , and the bulk of the tourists who thronged through the picturesque villages in the summer had gone . |
| 2 | According to Morgan , when he challenged Docherty , The Doc denied being the source of the story and went through the deceptive rituals of ringing the journalist to complain . |
| 3 | As I picked my way through the frozen woods towards the observation post which commands a unique view over the former battle-ground of the Marne , I wondered what it must have been like to be a soldier . |
| 4 | If we find an inmate who is taking drugs we go through the disciplinary procedures . |
| 5 | By the time Darwin was working on the Origin of Species , the man who was to become his great opponent in the USA , Louis Agassiz , was using diagrams to show how the various families of fish had flourished and declined through the geological epochs ; and in his handsome volumes of 1857 , Contributions to the Natural History of the United States , I and II , he included a plate of turtles to show the range of variation within a species . |
| 6 | If swallowed it kills in seconds , if absorbed through the thinner membranes in the mouth without swallowing , it kills in hours . |
| 7 | You then backstitch through the enlarged stitches as they hang in the hooks . |
| 8 | The tradition is then perpetuated through the standard textbooks and is transmitted in teaching by asking students to ‘ do it my way ’ . |
| 9 | We arrived at 9.30 , went through the usual contortions to buy a ticket , and were told to expect a train at 10.30 . |
| 10 | A horse that is empathic with another knows how the other feels without it being told through the usual senses of sight , hearing , touch , and smell . |
| 11 | People are n't going to request your record unless they have heard of it , and finally , they wo n't have heard of your record unless it has been promoted properly through the usual channels of TV , radio , music press , national press and live shows . |
| 12 | The request was first submitted a number of months ago , but all attempts through the usual channels have failed . |
| 13 | Several months previously he had applied through the usual channels for a commission in the RAF , with the idea at the back of his mind of getting back into flying . |
| 14 | Neither the Minister nor the Leader of the House made any attempt , nor was an attempt made through the usual channels , to hold any serious discussions about the passage of the Bill . |
| 15 | Had the Opposition wished to debate the issues , they should have delayed their prayers until after today 's debate and that debate could have been arranged through the usual channels . |
| 16 | Incidents like this happen almost every day , usually — — raised by Tory hon. Members , and they are usually dealt with through the usual channels , the Government deputy Chief Whip , myself and the Serjeant at Arms . |
| 17 | I am very pleased that , in so far as it is possible , we have been able , through the usual channels , to accommodate the wishes of the Opposition on the allocation of time to different parts of the Bill . |
| 18 | What I do n't understand is , if she wanted you to be adopted from the start , why did n't she go through the usual channels ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , of course , you can go through the usual channels , wait for your original birth certificate to arrive , see a counsellor from the adoption agency — ’ |
| 20 | These matters are dealt with through the usual channels , ’ he added . |
| 21 | I mean , in a much more , erm , a le a less severe example , but we 're having a Road Safety Week , at school , this week , erm , and it was my class 's turn , yesterday afternoon , so I was just there keeping a watching brief with my my children while the , road safety representative was talking to them , and she put them us through the usual hoops of erm , did any of them play on the roadside un unattended . |
| 22 | is I 'll just run through the additional points and these on the list which have been raised by the others , and |
| 23 | Significant trends are now working their way through the specific conditions prevailing in different cities and regions in Britain ( Goddard and Champion , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | If you have any general observations on safety within the University or specific recommendations for improvements of safety procedures you should submit these to the Safety Committee through the appropriate officers of the Students ' Union . |
| 25 | In the 1760s Catherine II of Russia had in self-defence to issue decrees ordering her subjects to petition her only through the appropriate officials and not by the direct personal presentation to her of their grievances and requests . |
| 26 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
| 27 | The mood of the crowd was turning to anger against those responsible for taking the children of South Ronaldsay away on what appeared to be very flimsy evidence , which had not been checked out through the appropriate channels . |
| 28 | Obviously such discussions may extend further than mandatory requirements dictate and indeed , from time to time , emerging issues have merited reference through the appropriate channels to the Accounting Standards Board or to the Urgent Issues Task Force for further consideration . |
| 29 | As you walk through the industrial towns you lose yourself in labyrinths of little brick houses blackened by smoke , festering in planless chaos round miry alleys and little cindered yards where there are stinking dustbins and lines of grimy washing and half-ruinous w.c.s. … at their very worst the Corporation houses are better than the slums they replace . |
| 30 | The way in which poverty causes illness is not merely through the lack of adequate material resources but also through the associated forms of employment and the culture that develops out of the material situation . |