Example sentences of "be [verb] through with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the folded sections of a book are stabbed through with wire staples at the binding edge , prior to the covers being drawn on . |
| 2 | Ninth-century annals and histories deal directly with public affairs and provide a more or less reliable framework of political events ; but they too are shot through with perceptions of the miraculous , and they are , at the same time , highly personal works ( as historical writing usually is ) , full of bias and image-making , whether written ( as many were ) for the king 's entourage , or for an audience far away from the court . |
| 3 | All of these descriptions are shot through with implications of reasoning from means to ends ; for human beings to perform similar actions would , under normal circumstances , be to act purposively , with conscious intent . |
| 4 | Such dilemmas show how these issues and decisions — and the stance which we take on them — are shot through with value judgements about what is ‘ best ’ and ‘ justifiable ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're soaked through with sweat , right enough . |
| 6 | I heard the boxes were arrived from London , and on the 4th sorted the ten guinea etchings but found in a most unaccountable ( sic ) that all 13 Conistons with about as many more were pricked through with nails … . ’ |
| 7 | In his opinion , they would make peace on almost any terms , they were shot through with cowardice , they lived in a perpetual funk . |
| 8 | The whole enterprise is carried through with panache and — apart from the fact that it clocks in at a rather miserly total of only 52 minutes — the disc can be thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants a well-chosen selection of G&S numbers . |
| 9 | This is a genuine kind of knowledge , but it is shot through with subjectivity . |
| 10 | Though not all his points are equally well taken , there can be no doubt that he is right in his basic assertion that the Kanunname is shot through with anachronisms suggesting sixteenth-century alterations and additions and that any provision of it must be treated with reserve and checked against other sources before being accepted as being genuinely of the time of Mehmed II . |
| 11 | The criminal law of England ( it might well be argued ) is shot through with inconsistencies and irrationalities , and , however a subjectivist may present it , exhibits a considerable amount of objective liability . |
| 12 | What I , my remit to Ken was to go through with Duncan er projects which were over a hundred thousand pounds . |