Example sentences of "through to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The barn , which has an asbestos protection layer , prevented the fire spreading through to a neighbouring potato store . |
| 2 | She had a friend who kept them caseless in huge straw baskets and crunched the loose cases to bits , muttering ‘ Oh , shit ’ as he wandered through to a five-by-eight foot kitchen where nine wires ran from the central lightbulb . |
| 3 | Previous difficulty in maintaining a pregnancy through to a live birth will be likely to be associated with a greater risk of a third or fourth miscarriage than if the woman 's previous pregnancies had been trouble-free . |
| 4 | Knowing more about the voice also means realising that raising the voice and screeching on a higher pitch ( inevitable when excited ) is not the way to get through to a rebellious teenager who is deliberately testing your limits . |
| 5 | At the same time , the worker has at his command tools and machinery that would make him feel enormous strength but he feels impotent because he is involved in only one part of the pattern of mass production ; never experiencing involvement with a total process from the raw material stage through to a finished product . |
| 6 | They will then go through to a grand final . |
| 7 | He wrote immediately to the SMG , cutting off all contact : ‘ I am not interested in agencies who politic and posture for no other reason than to promote themselves … secondly , as I am not presently able to place any trust in you , I must insist that any further matters you wish to raise are channelled through to a suitable agency , viz the local council or HCRC . ’ |
| 8 | The company dates back to the so-called Ever-sharp pencil invented in 1915 , through to a 1960s desktop computer and now a liquid crystal television display . |
| 9 | On the other hand , poorer residents , in spite of their organisation and activity , could often do very little to press their demands through to a successful policy outcome . |
| 10 | The expressions and ideas of religion — that of the Fatherhood of God , for instance — belong in the category of image , and it is the task of the philosopher to break through to a clearer conceptualisation , refining the images into concepts . |
| 11 | erm The only way to get through to a diverted phone is to call it through the number it 's diverted to . |
| 12 | Okay , yes , and the only way to get through to a diverted number is to call the number it 's diverted to . |
| 13 | MIDDLESBROUGH won through to a moneyspinning cup semi-final against Manchester United last night . |
| 14 | It is inevitable , therefore , that problems in this respect will carry through to a tentative application of economics to law . |
| 15 | The scales across Fenna 's shoulders and haunches were as large as dinner plates , and thick , heavy and dry — they changed colour in different lights , from dull pewter through to a dark red , the colour of dried blood , or the murky green of the lower waters of the Amazon River . |
| 16 | Such conflicting views or theories of style will concern us for the remainder of this chapter , but rather than argue that one view is wholly superior to another , we shall try to harmonize the apparent conflicts , so that at the end of the chapter , we shall have worked through to a balanced view of what stylistics is about . |
| 17 | Beardsley combined with former Liverpool team-mate Gary Ablett to put Everton through to a lucrative home tie against Chelsea in the last 16 of the Coca-Cola Cup . |
| 18 | They stretch from aero-engines and power stations to the NBC national-television network to electric lighting to plastics to medical-diagnostic gadgets through to a huge near-bank , General Electric Financial Services . |
| 19 | One of the rooms , the Osiris chapel , leads through to a further suite of rooms , dedicated to the Osirian cult . |
| 20 | In order to win through to a match-racing play-off , he needed to finish among the top six nations at this regatta . |
| 21 | Successful schemes always had someone who could be identified as the driving force , someone who pushed and who steered the project through to a satisfactory launch . |
| 22 | Then you ring Dial-A-Ticket ( 0532–710710 ) which is generally engaged , so you re-dial at frequent intervals till you get through to a recorded ticket office girl blotering on about similar information . |
| 23 | Then Wickham was invited through to a back room and a telephone . |
| 24 | Two standard layouts re available : layout A incorporates a pair of very similar quarter cabins ; while layout B retains the quarter berth on the starboard side , with a head and shower compartment , with a door through to a capacious lazarette . |
| 25 | ABERDEEN flirted with disaster at Kilbowie last night before two goals in the final 15 minutes from Scott Booth took them through to a Scottish Cup semi-final against Hibs at Tynecastle on 3 April . |