Example sentences of "through the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Brown barges puttered slowly through the turbid water . |
2 | You must think your way forward , cutting through the peripheral material , to arrive at the heart of your subject . |
3 | The Faculty of Health Sciences at Moi University , Eldoret , is now 5 years old , with its first undergraduates half-way through the 3rd year of a 6-year course . |
4 | As they come through the death-cell door : |
5 | First I was saved in eternity in the plan of God the Father , next I was saved at Calvary through the atoning work of God the Son , finally I was saved on Monday 30 June 19 – through the converting work of God the Holy Spirit . ’ |
6 | A period of decline was experienced by Chiswick House through the Crimean War also the Great War of 1914 to 1918 , and after a succession of occupants it became a private asylum for the mentally ill . |
7 | FOUR remand prisoners were on the run last night after they attacked prison officers and jumped handcuffed through the smashed window of a moving coach . |
8 | She refilled the saucepan , sweat soaking her body despite the cold wind and driving rain blasting through the smashed window . |
9 | They swam to the shop across a flooded road and were able to get Mr Grace to safety through the smashed shop window . |
10 | It was mid-autumn , and the bulk of the tourists who thronged through the picturesque villages in the summer had gone . |
11 | WORLD WAR II UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCE BASES IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE … can be linked on a nostalgic 60 mile/100 kilometre journey through the picturesque countryside of Northamptonshire . |
12 | He therefore travelled through the greater part of England , observing everything , but was equally careful to inspect all ornamental and kitchen gardens , and to make himself at home and acquainted with all horticulturalists , for he was of the opinion that he could learn something useful which he did not know before at least from some of them . |
13 | With mounting importunity these classes demanded political power to match their economic power , and through the greater part of the nineteenth century they challenged the political authority of the landed aristocracy … |
14 | In the Urals the late Palaeozoic geosyncline persisted through the greater part of the Permian and the Asian record is , on the whole , very different from that of Europe . |
15 | Through the greater part of Triassic , Jurassic and Cretaceous times , what is now northern Europe experienced a remarkably uneventful history that made possible the gentle ( if spasmodic ) accumulation of sediment and the slow evolution of organisms which led to the growth of the science of stratigraphical palaeontology in these strata . |
16 | Many middle-class mothers share the care of their children on an informal basis of friendship , as well as more formally through the pre-school playgroup movement . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The sea is widely expected to break through the narrowest point of the peninsula any year now . |
19 | Cut through the Arch Duke 's sleevenotes and poems ( a bit hippy ) to discover that he is funnier and more inventive than at any time in the intervening years . |
20 | Two explorers passing through the Chilean desert in 1974 discovered the banana could help keep them on the move when they became stranded because their car had drained of oil . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Pointer needed no further encouragement and I was too intrigued to object to floundering through the frozen bracken . |
23 | Small though he was , he carried her over his shoulder , passing back through the frozen forest to the snow field beyond . |
24 | At that moment Belinda looked over her shoulder and , seeing them together , detached herself from the rest of the group and tramped through the dying bracken towards them . |
25 | If , despite such investigation , you are still left with two suspects , then you should go through the disciplinary procedure with both of them , including interviewing both , giving an opportunity for one to own up , etc . |
26 | To date , four cases have gone through the disciplinary procedure . |
27 | If we find an inmate who is taking drugs we go through the disciplinary procedures . |
28 | Perhaps , in the primordial soup , left and right handedness were in free competition until some small chance advantage became overwhelming through the evolutionary progress . |
29 | As a protective response , refined through the evolutionary process , it is very effective . |
30 | Thus , we might look at lithological changes through the geological column . |