Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trip includes a pleasant cruise through the Gulf Island resort region . |
| 2 | The gated road offers an opportunity for a pleasant diversion through the park and a chance to join the Knightley Way . |
| 3 | A very simple and beautiful example of the use of substitution notes may be found at the beginning of Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde : Here the commonplace cadence A minor-F7-E7 is given a subtle mystery through the use of a few substitution notes as follows : in bar 2 , G is a chromatic substitution for A ( on which it resolves ) , while B is a diatonic substitution for A or C , on which it does not resolve ; in bar 3 , A substitutes chromatically for B , on which it resolves . |
| 4 | A private path through the park leads to the beach and the lakeside promenade . |
| 5 | This is a classic walk through the western Peak District taking in Shining Tor and Cats Tor and returning by the reservoirs and woodlands of Goyt Valley . |
| 6 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 7 | With the help of the train , a good expedition is available for hardy walkers : a path leaving Inverroy goes south through a low pass through the mountains to the head of Loch Treig , from which Corrour 's lonely railway station may be reached ; or , better still , done in reverse by taking the morning train to Corrour . |
| 8 | Stalwart police by the dozen shouldered a narrow gangway through the human forest . |
| 9 | If cast accurately each time you fill it , it progressively distributes the loose feed down a narrow path through the swim . |
| 10 | I need to clear a narrow path through the rushes and also through the lilies that border the margins . |
| 11 | Mungo had a view of a tantalizing fire through the briefly open door . |
| 12 | The upshot was that she had a rocky route through the rest of childhood and adolescence while I slipstreamed smoothly behind . |
| 13 | £8,000 haul by ram-raiders RAM-RAIDERS escaped with camcorders worth more than £8,000 after driving a stolen car through the windows of Northern Electric 's showroom on Clifton Moor , York early yesterday . |
| 14 | The Labour government was bound to take action : indeed there was a coordinated response through the Council of Europe . |
| 15 | The three wolves fell dead , all three heads severed with one blow as the Runefang described a bloody arc through the air . |
| 16 | This is not because of class affiliation to the ‘ class in charge ’ rather than the hegemonic class , but because of the bureaucracy's ' character as a specific category through the intermediary of its relation with the state ’ . |
| 17 | These developments have taken a specific form through the theory of ‘ public choice ’ . |
| 18 | The Cloud of Unknowing and Walter Hilton 's The Ladder of Perfection were both manual for novices in their mystical life and attempt to trace a coherent path through the nebulous and tortuous complexities of the inner man . |
| 19 | Over at Epcot , simulators at the cutting edge of new technology enable a ‘ mission ’ of 40 people to take a turbulent ride through the human body — reaching breakneck speeds through arteries , lungs and heart , before narrowly escaping dangers lurking in the brain . |
| 20 | On Wednesday County Coun. Colin Grant , who represents the Catterick area , said he had been alerting the Army , parish councils and schools to the apparent threat of about 140 additional lorry movements one every four minutes for a ten-hour day through the garrison . |
| 21 | A brief moment of the winter which pursued her sent a scampering chill through the warm place . |
| 22 | THE CHRONOLOGY OF DISCO is extremely vague , which is surprising , considering disco 's importance as a mass-market phenomenon through the Seventies and its musical influence up to the present . |
| 23 | Courses to be organised on a regional basis through the teachers ' centres . |
| 24 | Mr Major only has a slim 21-strong majority , and with 26 rebels already known as The Unforgiven , he can never be sure of getting a controversial measure through the Commons . |
| 25 | By 1981 , 102 urban areas , representing nearly 100 million people , were reporting a daily PSI through the media ( US National Commission on Air Quality , 1981 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ It pains me to say it , Mr Carlton , but I think Mr Stein is going to have to return to England and make a long-stay application through the ‘ propriate channels . ’ |
| 27 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through the window and tore down the curtains . |
| 28 | Somewhere , they told me in Nairn , is a hawthorn tree carbon-dated 1372 which I must find , because Boswell mentions it ; the ‘ hawthorn-tree , which rises like a wooden pillar through the rooms of the castle ; for , by a strange conceit , the walls have been built around it ’ . |
| 29 | Turning the eye reveals a different view through the cubic grid ; the three point geometry is based upon a pyramid sliced from the corner of a cube . |
| 30 | Unless you 've got a clear order through the proper channels please do n't do anything over here . |