Example sentences of "passing through " in BNC.
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| 1 | From all his great range of delicate visual experiences Corot came to be satisfied with one — shimmery light reflected from water , and passing through the delicate leaves of birches and willows . |
| 2 | By defining this insider fieldwork ( and the university experience which generated it ) as a liminal situation , I am extending the Turnerian concept ( 1969 , 1974 ) in which the individual moves temporarily into an unstructured and somewhat ambiguous state , during the initial process of passing through a rite de passage before returning to structure . |
| 3 | A five–car Class 442 unit forms the 09.46 Poole and Bournemouth to Waterloo service passing through Pirbright , Surrey on 20 February 1989 . |
| 4 | The highest of these peaks , Wagagai ( 14,177ft/4321m ) , is in Ugandan territory and officially out of bounds , but our map showed the international boundary passing through the summit of the second highest peak ( just 20 metres lower than Wagagai ) , called Lower Elgon , so we decided to stay legal and aim for that instead . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion . |
| 6 | Its route took it to Constantinople prior to passing through the southern part of the sprawling Ottoman empire to the Persian Gulf there to revert to a submarine route again before continuing to Karachi . |
| 7 | There are more than 40 nuclear reactors and 22,000km of gas pipeline passing through built-up areas . |
| 8 | Turkey exports up to 50 million bulbs a year with the majority passing through the Netherlands . |
| 9 | Leptons include particles such as the familiar electrons , which orbit the atomic nucleus , and the mysterious neutrinos , which are almost undetectable particles capable of passing through the entire earth untouched . |
| 10 | From the road , No. 6 Commando positions could be approached by passing through the farm . |
| 11 | The sniping in the orchard has cased off since yesterday , the constant whine of a bullet passing through the trees is not so noticeable . |
| 12 | The advance was a distance of about five or six miles , passing through Bavant , a small village now occupied by No. 6 Commando . |
| 13 | Passing through Amfreville we meet part of 4 Commando Brigade marching through the village to take up new positions near the village of Troarn , a short distance from 1st Commando Brigade area . |
| 14 | After following field tracks and minor roads across mid-Devon , passing through quaint villages , you arrive in Exmoor . |
| 15 | Thousands who heard her singing to the troopships passing through Durban remember ‘ The Lady in White ’ , and there will be many who will appreciate the opportunity of hearing her story through the medium of audio tape . |
| 16 | The one would be abolished by the Clean Air Act and the others would die and disappear one by one , passing through the gates of the fatal factories close by . |
| 17 | Her heart soared as she realised that this was a new adventure , an adventure through darkness into the greater darkness which might , just might , be even more beautiful than the slow throbbing of living blood , richer in iron than the veins of any mine , passing through mighty arteries , driven by the rhythmic pounding of the great beast 's heart . |
| 18 | It was a scary journey , scrabbling over that slippery great red tongue and passing through a great hall of teeth and palate , each pillar taller than she was and as sharp as a knife . |
| 19 | Maggie was kneading currants through dough in a glass bowl on the sideboard , as absorbed in the kneading as if all of her life were passing through the pale dough . |
| 20 | ‘ An NRA bailiff was bitten by a Newfoundland dog and during the Division Three National on the canal this year one man tried to stop anglers and spectators passing through his garden . |
| 21 | Mario and Michael Andretti were passing through Phoenix en route to the Australian event , confident that the drivers would not be debarred from applying for FISA international licences . |
| 22 | Jack was passing through a door tonight , dying a little , and as always Charlie would die with him too . |
| 23 | In addition , activities — whether due to muscle exercise , mental effort , or the excitement associated with social interactions — will alter the amount of nervous activity passing through this region of the brain . |
| 24 | Two NCO drivers from the Field Ambulance were passing through the assembled ranks selling chocolates , buns and cold drinks . |
| 25 | Undergraduate pupils of Jack 's throughout the middle years of the 1930s got used to passing through the outer drawing-room of his rooms at Magdalen where sat the mysterious figure of Captain Lewis , typing with two fingers on an ancient black portable . |
| 26 | A few lengths were produced and these amateurish efforts were seen by a director of Coles who was passing through Braintree and happened to look in at an art exhibition in the Institute . |
| 27 | Inside , everything The bar was like a cruise ship passing through the tropics — but without quite the same sexual charge . |
| 28 | The bar was like a cruise ship passing through the tropics without , I thought at the time , quite the same sexual charge . |
| 29 | The system will automatically prevent a train passing through signals in dangerous situations , and will also govern speeds in restricted areas , an advance on the present automatic warning system , which sends warning signals to the driver . |
| 30 | And if , as the NES proposes , the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska is opened to drilling ( lobbyists give this a 50–50 chance of passing through Congress ) , the government will ensure that the drilling happens . |