Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] pass through " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unfocused light has to pass through the retina on its journey to the mirror and this degrades the quality of the image . |
| 2 | One of the nine graduates from the estimable Haringey ( now London ) Cricket College to have passed through the first-class portals , the seamer from St Lucia found himself plopped at the top of the order in the absence of four injured batsmen , this despite a previous firstclass output of 0 and 4 not out . |
| 3 | The previous day the Pentagon had issued a statement claiming that the photograph had passed through the hands of a " ring of Cambodia opportunists led by a well-known and admitted fabricator " of information about MIAs . |
| 4 | However they confirm that farmers who had claimed for more quota than they had ewes would be given ‘ around ’ two months after the statutory instrument had passed through Parliament to secure their extra rights to ewe premium and to notify the authorities of the transfer . |
| 5 | In retaliation Abdoujaparov , last year 's winner , reached out and pulled Cipollini 's racing jersey , using the momentum gained to pass through a narrowing gap between the Italian and the barriers on the right side of the road . |
| 6 | This has remained for five generations in the same family , and roughly speaking with headquarters on the same site , whereas Smith 's ownership has passed through several families and occupied many addresses before settling in 1921 on 57–61 St Vincent Street . |
| 7 | Alyson has passed through three Middlesbrough schools Hemlington Hall Juniors , Abingdon Road Juniors and Langbaurgh without missing a single day . |
| 8 | A group tends to pass through four major stages of development in its life . |
| 9 | Some of the office rooms were comfortable enough in their way — far more so , indeed , than those in the new building — still , they were most inconveniently arranged , in proof of which it need only be mentioned that the Secretary of State in going from his own room to the Cabinet Room had to pass through two rooms occupied by other persons . |
| 10 | The rotor has to pass through these regions after times which are a multiple of the rotor oscillation period ( 1 hn ) and therefore : Resonant stepping rates A motor with a natural frequency , from Eqn . |
| 11 | They are generally operated on a fixed cycle , so that , when a known volume of water has passed through the plant , a valve is turned so as first to backwash the bed to cleanse the zeolite , and then to pass in brine for a fixed time to regenerate the material . |
| 12 | … the construction of a character has to pass through a death , necessary to the structuring of the subject as subject of utterance , and for his insertion into the circuit of signifiers , I mean the narration . |
| 13 | The water having to pass through the media en route to the pump , there was no clogged impeller to worry about . |
| 14 | The forester had passed through the village recently . |
| 15 | The Young King had passed through Limoges and St Yrieix on his way to join his father and brother at Puy-St-Front . |
| 16 | It was unfortunate that the WAAF chose that particular moment to call out " AC2 Simkin " piercingly from the doorway , because the poor fellow leaped as though a powerful electric current had passed through him . |
| 17 | A great deal of Thomas 's trade had passed through the hands of Spencer Grenfell who seemed to have trouble bringing in payment to her father on time . |
| 18 | As to the case for Monktonhall , it seems that the hon. Gentleman is seeking privatisation before a Bill has passed through the House . |
| 19 | The second Bill had passed through the House of Commons only to be thrown out by the House of Lords which could reject all legislation except money bills . |
| 20 | The previous Bill had passed through Committee and was well advanced ‘ when international affairs so occupied the time of this House that it was impossible to carry the Measure to the Statute Book ’ . |
| 21 | If , from the Parliamentary Roll it appeared that the bill had passed through both Houses and received the Royal Assent , the courts could not inquire into what happened during its parliamentary stages . |
| 22 | If you 're comparing us with primary and secondary schools we have to remember that the erm the great erm age bulge pass has passed through the primary schools and is passing through the secondary schools and is still to reach higher education . |
| 23 | It has to be admitted that the railway has passed through a period of financial difficulty but now appears to be settled and operating a successful service of trains . |
| 24 | About that number had passed through the turnstiles and his experienced eye estimated no more in the crowd , but … how many other , unseen , watchers had witnessed that particular match ? |
| 25 | Mrs Dyer was tiny ; her head sat on her spine like a sunflower on its stalk ; and her hair had passed through its albid phase and was now the colour of a Gitaned forefinger . |
| 26 | The scheme has passed through 20 editions . |
| 27 | Once the patient has passed through casualty and becomes a coronary care admission the pain has usually eased significantly . |
| 28 | Most disliked are dangerous chemicals , whether brought in openly or like the 41 barrels of dioxin waste , a legacy of the 1976 explosion at Hoffmann-La Roche 's Seveso plant , that turned up in 1983 in a Paris abattoir having passed through umpteen subcontractors on the way . |
| 29 | It was learned later that the plane had flown through overhead high tension power cables and left the topmost cable intact ; 132,000 volts of electricity had passed through the aircraft , igniting all flammable material on board . |
| 30 | Intimacies soon followed and , because they did not share a common language in those early days , the words of love that they shared over breakfast had to pass through a translator . |