Example sentences of "through [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) felt that the knot symbolized possession by a man , a token of the collective sacred marriage which all young people had to go through as the culmination of their initiation sequence . |
| 2 | " I think it would be better if I worked through for the rest of today . |
| 3 | Instead , a full selection procedure was to be gone through during the lifetime of a Parliament , thus allowing other aspiring candidates to be considered . |
| 4 | William Cobbet passed through during the period of expansion , and hated it ! |
| 5 | We have realised these in our budgets by a reduced turnover , but on a more positive note we have also planned a slight increase in our capital replacement spend to retain the capabilities of our fleet of plant and vehicles to be able to take account of any upturn in the overall UK market which could well show through towards the end of the year . |
| 6 | Taxi proprietors were discussing the problem with senior Huddersfield police early on Tuesday evening when news came through of the stabbing of Mr Andrew Brown , aged 24 , of Birds Edge , near Penistone , South Yorkshire , at Three Star Taxis ' office in Beast Market . |
| 7 | Then follows the pushing through of the course of action despite buffetings and any opposition . |
| 8 | Towards the end of a long and tiring night shift , when news was coming through of the murder of another member of the RUC , one policeman in particular decided to put the field-worker through a test of trust . |
| 9 | As this bombardment has grown so have the services surrounding it , and public relations is the leading contender to see that one bit of information or message gets through amid the onslaught of mass media advertising and other information providers like the media that constantly continue to assail . |
| 10 | I sucked a huge breath , ducked low , praying I might yet slip through beneath the bulk of the web which I knew must be draped across the passage in front of me . |
| 11 | During the 1970s and 1980s , therefore , Britain 's coalfields differed significantly in the degree of militancy of the NUM members , and those differences carried through into the conduct of the 1984–5 dispute . |
| 12 | " You do n't , but building fresh matter round it , might cause it to drop right through into the downness of spatial alti-librium . " |
| 13 | Challenge worked her way through an area strewn with salmon cages and creels and with some difficulty found her way through into the lee of the island , which was now illuminated by a coastguard auxiliary 's searchlight . |
| 14 | Charles 's cavalry rallied to hold off the 500 enemy horse which broke through into the rear of his lines and formed a protective corridor down which he , and those of his men still able to fight , slowly withdrew , fiercely resisting . |
| 15 | The Australians are a friendly , extrovert and untrammelled lot , so bureaucracy has not yet filtered through into the realm of photography . |
| 16 | The Australians are a friendly , extrovert and untrammelled lot , so bureaucracy has not yet filtered through into the realm of photography . |
| 17 | Although the conceptual foundations of the challenge to the old order were different , transcendental anatomy raised issues that would be associated with the theory of evolution through into the era of Darwinism . |
| 18 | Although most biographers ( encouraged by Darwin 's own recollections ) have played down the Edinburgh episode , the most recent studies have noted that he developed an interest in invertebrate zoology here that was to form a mainstay of his scientific work through into the time of the Beagle voyage . |
| 19 | Unlike the situation at a comparable juncture in western development , however , this revolution could not be carried through under the leadership of the bourgeoisie . |
| 20 | The air was close , soured through with the smell of size , canvas and stewed tea , and , around the entrance cubbyhole of Bert , the stagedoor-keeper , Goldflake cigarettes and the chancey whiff of Flossie , his aged spaniel . |
| 21 | So we pressed through with the course of action . |
| 22 | Christian Burial of the Dead combines with Buddha 's Fire Sermon , but both are shot through with the sort of primitive fertility cycle hinted at in ‘ Death by Water ’ . |
| 23 | A braver man than most of his successors , he challenged the Gerry Adams of the day to a duel and crossed to Ostend to meet his enemy , but the project fell through with the arrest of his opponent . |
| 24 | He notices , for example , that Dickens started writing Barnaby Rudge , a novel shot through with the theme of difficult father-son relationships , at a time when his own spendthrift father was forging his son 's signature as a means of acquiring credit . |
| 25 | Lowden bridges are unusual in two respects : the saddles are split into two sections for optimum intonation on wound and unwound strings , and the strings mount through from the back of the bridge rather than via the old bridge-pin method , which would mean a longer string-changing time . |
| 26 | The maid came through from the back of the house and bobbed a curtsy to Emily . |
| 27 | With only shocked monosyllables passing between us , we waded into the living room , where just a small steam flowed through from the area of the guest bedroom and bathroom . |
| 28 | This strategy calls for the researchers to follow cases through from the point of initial application . |
| 29 | Any investigation , such as a court would be obliged , in this type of case , to undertake , into the propriety of the internal procedures gone through in the course of passing a Bill would conflict with the modus vivendi in which Parliament and the courts had tacitly acquiesced since the celebrated Hansard litigation of the 1840s . |
| 30 | That legislation can not be carried through in the remainder of this Parliament and will be a matter for the next Parliament . |