Example sentences of "through [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a sobering thought that in a million years or so , the Thames will break through somewhere around Poplar High Street and turn it into a proper island . |
| 2 | Mike rubbed the back of his neck , and the silence dropped clammily on him as he tried to think it through properly . |
| 3 | You have not thought things through properly . |
| 4 | Conservative Robert Goodwill claims Labour 's minimum wage policy has not been thought through properly and that it would ‘ cause inflation to let rip again ’ . |
| 5 | Also , children everywhere go through remarkably similar learning stages . |
| 6 | JoJo frowned at them both through little squinting eyes , then his face broke out into a toothless smile and he grinned at them . |
| 7 | Negotiations for sale to a would-be bistro owner had reached an advanced stage but fell through eventually because he was unable to raise the necessary capital , and the owners are anxious for a quick sale . |
| 8 | You will get through eventually . |
| 9 | — Margaret Thatcher ‘ Although it is uncomfortable , the note which is being sounded is not bad ; it is one of being prepared to take occasionally rough and unpopular decisions in the belief that they will work through successfully . ’ |
| 10 | I like to see things through to the finish — and to see them through successfully . ’ |
| 11 | Data were stored on an Apple Macintosh II microcomputer and analysed through commercially available statistical software ( Statview II , Abacus concepts ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't bear to think what that poor woman is going through right now , ’ said Noreen , 29 . |
| 13 | They all came through right I think . |
| 14 | My ear bends towards my receiver , and I keep my eye on the kitchen door as if they could come bursting through right now . |
| 15 | I only wish I had time to stay and talk , but I 've got some paperwork to get through right now . ’ |
| 16 | According to the report , the managers ‘ passed through rather than spent time in the kitchen ’ . |
| 17 | The steeplechase course at Auteuil is a far cry from Newbury or Cheltenham , and the runners in the four-mile Grand Steeplechase have to negotiate a bewildering variety of obstacles : some of the fences are soft privet , to be jumped through rather than over ; there are two natural brooks , including the Rivière de la Tribune — four metres of water preceded by a hedge one metre high and one metre wide ; and then there is Le Bullfinch , a rail , ditch and fence on top of a stone wall . |
| 18 | At the same time , this point of difficulty , like the difficulty surrounding value , needs to be thought through rather than thought around , complimented and qualified by ethnography rather than simply disqualified by it . |
| 19 | If Europe 's governments choose muddling through rather than such reform , then that achievement , as well as the ERM itself , will remain at risk . |
| 20 | However , there were others , more distinctively local in their orientation : the gradual demise of the traditional two-tier model of primary school management and its replacement by three-tier and matrix models ; the desirability of building on the diversification of staff management roles which PNP has produced , avoiding any contraction of such roles as a consequence of LMS ; the need to acknowledge the pivotal role , for good or ill , played by primary heads , and to work with and through rather than round or against them ; the need to expand the focus of management training courses to encompass the roles and needs of all staff ( not just those of the ‘ managers ’ as conventionally defined ) , to locate management strategies in whole-school analysis , and generally to broaden the concept of ‘ management ’ which currently informs such courses ; the importance of training , support and INSET for heads , and of ensuring that these give close attention to the broader aspects of the expertise needed for headship , such as professional knowledge and personal relationships as well as the more obvious tasks , roles and strategies . |
| 21 | The whole feeling of producing the correct inside attack is one of turning away , curbing the power of the right side , and then timing the hips so that the clubhead pulls the body through rather than the body pushing it . |
| 22 | I think a lot of the current concern about schools being accountable is partly because things that in fact are being done are not being seen to be done , and I think if many of the things that we already done were more obviously being seen to be done , and perhaps also thought through rather more carefully as to how they were being done , the public would feel generally erm happier about what was going on in their schools than perhaps they are at the moment . |
| 23 | The response is coming through slowly , but we 've had to take a lot of initiatives on our own and we are hoping that others will come and support and back these initiatives . |
| 24 | It is not intended to provide the detail that is rightly expected by the local communities who live and work in close proximity to our operations , and which we provide through locally published reports . |
| 25 | ‘ Every sort of potato , ’ Spencer laughs , ‘ roast potatoes , mashed potatoes , baked potatoes … ’ his humour shines through constantly , of course he knows what a narrow escape it was , but he is well passed the haunting of it . |
| 26 | Sentence ( 14 ) above can therefore be diagrammed in the following way : As for the presence of a before/after relation , the impression that comes through constantly with the use of to is that the infinitive event is depicted as a consequence or result of the action of helping . |
| 27 | Worse , so long as the president tries to reform through entirely constitutional means , he is bound to fail . |
| 28 | This improvement came through entirely in the second half and was predominantly in the USA where we saw the beginnings of economic recovery . |
| 29 | When thinking how to act , I am in the world of common sense where something either is or is not , and where it is a matter of course that I can be in touch with it through highly subjective impressions . |
| 30 | We can organise them and lead them through highly prescriptive sessions in which they act out the teacher 's scenario . |