Example sentences of "[noun sg] was through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we actually reached the reef , with calm water erupting into foaming waves twenty feet high as they hit the rocks , the Mantela bucked like a frightened horse , sank into a trough , reared up again , and then , as suddenly as it had started , the old tub was through the creamy foam of the passage and had settled into the lazy waters of the lagoon . |
| 2 | He decided the quickest way home was through the Blue Boar 's yard . |
| 3 | Then Golden Girl was through the wind . |
| 4 | The library consisted of two rooms , but the only entry to the inner room was through the outer . |
| 5 | In the case where a lift was placed at each end of a summit , and where the traffic was through the summit , there would be no loss or gain of water by the use of the lift other than the loss of 1/100 of a lock each time either lift passed up and down . |
| 6 | The only access was through the narrow , winding streets of Sandwich . |
| 7 | The only avenue for EC control was through the application of Article 85 and/or Article 86 , which was only open to those cases involving the operation of restrictive practices and/or the abuse of a dominant position . |
| 8 | ‘ Poor man was through the wars , was n't he ? ’ |
| 9 | The other cause of the present crisis was Ben , a man of few principles , whose only view of life was through the bottom of a tankard , riddled as he was with guilt and arrogance . |
| 10 | Almost the entire journey was through the plain , now covered in dense fog . |
| 11 | The route taken to the abbey was through the Circeo National Park and along the scenic coastal road next to the Tyrrhenian sea . |
| 12 | Ceauşescu 's first contact with British statesmanship was through the interest that he had in obtaining British technology and the up-and-coming Antony Wedgwood-Benn had in selling it . |
| 13 | In the early days of our Church all communication was through the written or spoken word . |
| 14 | The moment Penry was through the door Leonora got out of bed , eager to see if the familiarity of the clothes would jog her memory . |
| 15 | In the face of growing needs arising from an ageing population , the only substantial source of funds available for care was through the Social Security System which enabled elderly people to enter voluntary and private nursing homes whereas the funds to develop care at home by health and social services were limited and restrained as part of the overall policy to reduce public spending . |
| 16 | Just over fifty years later a second Montevideo Congress produced a revised Convention , that on International Procedural Law of 19 March 1940 , To the existing text of what became Article 11 were added two further sentences , one requiring that letters rogatory be translated into the language of the state of destination and the other dispensing with the requirement of legalisation provided transmission was through the diplomatic ( or , in their absence , consular ) agents of the state of origin . |
| 17 | Others were sent for spells of ‘ re-education ’ in the countryside , but the easiest way for the state to gain its revenge was through the graduate assignment system . |
| 18 | Tolkien 's way of presenting this philosophical duality was through the Ring . |
| 19 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |