Example sentences of "and through [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you , Minnie , I have fallen from favour of late and through no fault of my own , whereas my husband and son rest high in Mrs Browning 's estimation . |
| 2 | How can people be expected to submit detailed applications when , for a variety of social reasons and through no fault of their own , they do not have the wherewithal , information and literacy to express themselves ? |
| 3 | The goalkeeper swore he had read the book out of interest and through no need of practical assistance . |
| 4 | The basic Conservative policy between the wars was to encourage the speedy building of houses at low cost by every means and through every agency . |
| 5 | A Study Skills Handbook sets out to train the students in all these areas and does so in an authoritative no-nonsense manner ( making frequent use of Golden Rules ) and through a wealth of practical exercises . |
| 6 | No light is admitted but at the entrance , and through a hole in the thatch , which gives vent to the smoke . |
| 7 | ‘ Then if you were acting on orders and through a sense of misguided loyalty , I forgive you , ’ she said generously , and was rewarded by his amazed laugh . |
| 8 | Dr Taylor gives another example of the Spirit of God drawing a man to Jesus in circumstances that were very unpropitious and through a medium that was to say the least opaque . |
| 9 | She led us out of the church , round the back and through a wood . |
| 10 | You have only to read her bestselling books , In the Shadow of Man and Through a Window , to recognise that by temperament she is a romantic and a child of nature . |
| 11 | In the Shadow of Man ( paperback , £8.95 ) and Through a Window ( hardback , £15 ) are both published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson . |
| 12 | Edward Topsel , the English naturalist , writing in 1658 stipulated that , to cure blindness , or pains in the eye : ‘ Take the head of a black Cat , which hath not a spot of another colour in it , and burn it to powder in an earthen pot leaded or glazed within , then take this powder and through a quill blow it thrice a day into the eye ’ — the italics were not used in the original , but are to draw attention to the crucial quality of the black cat who is about to lose his head . |
| 13 | An inquiry is underway into how a tube train with passengers on board took off without a driver and travelled for a mile and through a station before being halted by an automatic signal . |
| 14 | ‘ Come on , ’ said Felicity , and led him round the back of the house and through a herb-garden into a large modern kitchen . |
| 15 | She argues the case through a reading of a history painting ‘ Zeuxis Choosing his Models for the Painting of Helen of Troy ’ of the late 1770s in which one of the female figures stands behind the classical Greek artist and herself reaches for the chalk to start on the blank canvas beside her , and through a self portrait ‘ Angelica Kauffman Hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting ’ ( 1794 ) . |
| 16 | At the next junction turn left , descend the rocky slope and through a gate . |
| 17 | From Janet 's Foss my way led across the road and through a gate where the Dales Park have placed a plaque telling me that this is Gordale Scar and to keep to the path . |
| 18 | Christina led them under an arched stone portico and through a labyrinth of white-stucco passageways opening onto vine-covered courtyards where tiny humming-birds fluttered through tall bamboo , and antique urns overflowed with red and pink angelica . |
| 19 | Ignoring Havvie Blaine , Stair , the astonished Mr Sands who could hardly believe what he had been hearing , and all the other spectators , he dragged her across the room and through a side-door by the small stage , into a long corridor . |
| 20 | They were linked by blood to Charles II , the Dukes of Marlborough , Devonshire and Abercorn and through a quirk of history to seven American presidents , including Franklin D. Roosevelt , and to the actor Humphrey Bogart and , it is said , the gangster Al Capone . |
| 21 | Erika picked up the phone and through a barrage of crackles heard a smooth voice . |
| 22 | The other branch runs south-eastwards through New Guinea and the New Hebrides and through a scatter of small Melanesian islands , before making an abrupt dog 's leg northwards to the Samoan islands to join the Tonga-Kermadec chain which extends southwards again into New Zealand . |
| 23 | The engine is deceptively simple , powering the propeller and through a generator , creating the electricity needed to run the waterpump , heating and lighting . |
| 24 | ‘ And through a land that is every day stepping one pace closer to anarchy . |
| 25 | They left the goose in the dairy and went back along the passage and through a swing door with baize on one side into a wide , dark hall where a grandfather clock ticked in one corner and a small oil lamp threw shadows . |
| 26 | Light came through the stained-glass skylights , which were predominantly green and blue , and through a wall of windows of clear glass that held the faintest hint of turquoise . |
| 27 | The increasing dependence of local government on financial support from the centre has already been noted , and through a variety of devices central government now restricts local-authority revenue and capital expenditure ( see pp. 198–205 ) . |
| 28 | He pushed me towards the light and through a door then took the scarf off my eyes . |
| 29 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
| 30 | He had realised , for instance , when Martha was born , that he would do well to take flowers to the hospital , but not that if you buy an azalea in winter and carry it on a bus and through a number of cold streets , all the buds will drop off before you arrive . |