Example sentences of "through [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Are there steps through which we can begin to learn again what was so clearly a part of the New Testament church 's experience ?
2 The room itself is an object , with all its elements , carpets and hangings included , constituting an authentic whole , through which we can give a lesson in the development of style and taste .
3 It 's a marvellous profession through which we can help our fellow citizens , an enriching one which , like medicine , saves lives …
4 The processes through which we can see texts functioning within a social and cultural context are problematic .
5 That figure will be part of a programme through which we will spend more than £1 billion on housing next year .
6 Human beings chose the imagery through which they would capture their understanding of God .
7 The legal basis was being created for workers to set up their own professional , cultural and leisure-time organizations through which they would become integrated with the rest of society .
8 But it is also true that journalists and editors know full well that public relations is an important source of information for their work and often can be the instrument through which they may obtain their story .
9 For those who asked themselves ‘ Can we afford it ? ’ and knew the answer was No , there were a greater number of tempting schemes , through which they could be led to believe the answer was Yes .
10 Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up .
11 Within Christianity , people have sought out symbols through which they could formulate their faith , such as the doctrine of the trinity .
12 Hence there was a need to give " the rich and well-born " a " distinct , permanent share in the government " through which they could " check the imprudence of democracy " .
13 I began to see that mathematics might offer John and others the opportunities and challenges through which they could begin to succeed .
14 By introducing a programme for the training of drawing teachers in 1871 , the school opened up a vocation to women : a vocation through which they could attempt to have more secure incomes .
15 Nor did he raise one word about the history of his own great movement , about the fact that the working people of this country were urged to organise and to use their vote , through which they could change the policies under which they lived .
16 The four leaders , Clyde Wells of Newfoundland and Labrador , Donald Cameron of Nova Scotia , Joe Ghiz of Prince Edward Island and Frank McKenna of New Brunswick , also discussed methods through which they could co-ordinate economic and fiscal strategies in their forthcoming budgets .
17 The original forest peoples of the tropics have been greatly reduced or , at least , the territory through which they could formerly move has .
18 Having chosen the story , theme or music , choreographers must consider the available living material through which they can mould the particular style of dance appropriate to their ideas .
19 It is useful to point out that when using such materials choreographers must know their vocabulary very thoroughly and select movements through which they can emphasise the moment when disaster strikes .
20 To be more specific , he showed that , if chemical substances react in a medium through which they can diffuse , it is not always true that the reactants will become uniformly distributed .
21 For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living .
22 Counselling seeks to present troubled individuals with a ‘ mirror ’ through which they can assess their social performance , and the reasons which lie behind its success or failure , its quality or lack of quality .
23 These six activity books provide children who are beginning to learn English with a wide range of activities through which they can practise English grammar and vocabulary , and develop their reading and writing skills .
24 Firth and his colleagues argue that the main reason for this gender difference relationships through which they can gain support for their domestic and child care responsibilities , whereas men 's lives are more dominated by work and careers in which siblings usually can not help .
25 Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God .
26 If this is so , these varieties must incorporate within themselves sets of recurrent and distinctive norms , through which they can be characterized , but which do not usually coincide with the norms of the standard language .
27 Third , and as a consequence of the last two factors , they have been able to develop a number of networks , more or less formal , through which they can contact one another .
28 The most recent GUIs also incorporate a windowing facility enabling users to create a window within one application through which they can simultaneously run another .
29 State administrative agencies thus feed off the results of interest-group pressure , and interest groups find in the administration multiple points of access through which they can influence the formulation of government policy .
30 They see Caller Display as a service which gives them a window on the world , through which they can stop unwanted calls and increase their sense of security . ’
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