Example sentences of "through which [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cover the containers with the muslin making certain that there are no small crevices through which the beetles could escape . |
| 2 | The others were that there was no power conferred on the council by Parliament , that the activity would not have been engaged in by a ‘ reasonable ’ authority , and the capital markets fund , through which the transactions were undertaken , ‘ was not reasonably organised or maintained ’ . |
| 3 | To the left of this doorway , right down on the ground , is an arched opening known as ‘ The Cagots ’ window' , this having been , so one story claims , the window through which the Cagots , who were not allowed into the church , could hear the mass . |
| 4 | Life was a grid of stucco through which the cliches were sought . |
| 5 | J. Milroy developed techniques for handling quantitatively data of this kind by assigning to each speaker a range score calculated simply by counting from left to right the number of columns through which the variants ranged , and subtracting 1 . |
| 6 | She put out a finger and tentatively slid it over the thin plastic through which the knickers , crumpled and stained round the crotch , were clearly visible . |
| 7 | She would do well to learn more , from books or from other parents , about the stage through which the step-children are passing . |
| 8 | Apart from the South Wales Miners ' Federation , it had been almost the only major working class organization through which the Communists had consistently exercised influence . |
| 9 | This passage illustrates in a vivid way the fact that the arrangements the judges have made with the Inns are merely the machinery through which the judges perform what remains a judicial duty , and also how decisions on rights of audience are different from decisions on call to the Bar . |
| 10 | The birds of one group were put , each with an unopened milk container , in one compartment of a cage that was divided into two compartments by a wire mesh through which the birds could see . |
| 11 | His skill in exploiting the idea of mistaken identity ensures that there is no slackening of interest in two novels which are in fact extremely simple in structure , combining lateral movement ( on foot , on horseback and , rarely , by train ) from the city of Strelsau to the castle and hunting lodge of Zenda and back again and with dialogue through which the motives of these movements are explored and explained . |
| 12 | Instead , a particular style of dance is used through which the performers play strongly defined characters who express not only social status in a particular community but also moods , emotions and actions , which are alien to the calm spaciousness of classical dance . |
| 13 | The recipes and the suggested menus evoke the days of English parlourmaids handing round every course in silver-plated entrée dishes far too big for the food they contained , while the illustrations of table decorations devised by Mr Thomas Lowinsky depict such conversation stimulators as " two dead branches in an accumulator jar " , or " a spiral of chromium-plated steel pierced with holes through which the stems of flowers are passed " . |
| 14 | Each nodule has an opening into the gut through which the eggs reach the lumen . |
| 15 | The heart of the matter is the provision of a physical and social environment through which the members of society may gradually withdraw from it as securely and as worthily as they enter it through the environment of home and education . |
| 16 | However , they all sit together in the same circular chamber which has various doors marked ‘ Clergy Ayes ’ or ‘ Laity Noes ’ through which the members of the Synod troop to vote in the way MPs trudge through their voting lobbies . |
| 17 | Canon Arbeau in his Orchésographie ( 1588 ) recommended the use of four positions from and through which the feet moved , the turn-out to show off the line of the leg and ports de bras to display one 's carriage and courteous behaviour . |
| 18 | But technical descriptions only indicate the positions through which the feet and legs should move and at which moment they should co-ordinate with the arms as weight is transferred from one step and pose to the next . |
| 19 | This view puts the dynamic of police racism in the norms and values through which the police define their roles and legitimate their activities . |
| 20 | In passages such as this it is not only the content which is important ( the attack on organized vice and male expertise ) but the language through which the ideas are expressed . |
| 21 | The system was being increasingly undermined , however , both by the growing numbers of those holding Matai titles and by a reduction in the traditional structures through which the chiefs had exercised authority . |
| 22 | Clearly , the class reader so defined , claims a central role in much English teaching since it frequently provides a nucleus of activity through which the needs of pupils — both girls and boys — are addressed . |
| 23 | The Commission has many of the characteristics of an international administrative authority and is the organ through which the governments act in all matters to do with the concession . |
| 24 | The gate facing you is the one through which the troops from Passau invaded Prague in 1611 on the orders of Matthias . |
| 25 | A provincial assembly of the clergy , to which proctors came in greater numbers than to parliament and which all abbots and priors were entitled to attend , was increasingly the body through which the clergy were taxed ; gradually the name of convocation , which had been applied haphazardly from the early twelfth century to a variety of ecclesiastical gatherings , was reserved for this assembly . |
| 26 | The failure of Danie Craven 's South Africa Rugby Board and the mainly-black South Africa Rugby Union to get their act together forestalled grandiose plans by the Hong Kong Seven organisers to use their world-famous event as the door through which the Springboks would make their re-entry into the rugby world . |
| 27 | They became part of the symbolic political language through which the riots were understood by policy makers and by popular opinion . |
| 28 | It is believed that much expense may be saved by taking advantage of areas , kitchens and coal-holes already made , through which the trains may run without much inconvenience to the owners … ’ |
| 29 | The hole through which the survivors of B Shift had left the Bridge was knitting back together like cloth , the weave forming as the bulk of the mist reduced . |
| 30 | Within any one cell of an organism , it is likely that components of the pathway are used to detect multiple signals , Ras acting as a kind of turnstile through which the signals must pass . |