Example sentences of "[verb] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , he was selected to carry up the bill of settlement to the Lords , and in 1702 piloted through Parliament a measure to attaint the pretender . |
| 2 | By all means snoop into my answer machine and sit through 20 messages suggesting I travel on a coach to Grimsby to review a Jive Bunny concert . |
| 3 | The families sit through a trial and feel short-changed by the sentence handed down . ’ |
| 4 | The post-psychedelic light show ensures that the daytrippers are rooted to the floor as they sit through two and a quarter hours of swirling baby images , coloured cogs and kaleidoscope wheels . |
| 5 | Maybe I 'm just being traditional in my tastes ; it is probably important to watch the compilation in small doses and not sit through the whole three hours as I did . |
| 6 | As much as he complains about having to frolic through the clichés of his life , he is quite happy to encourage it . |
| 7 | Though consent , if valid , has normative consequences , and can only be explained through its purported normative consequences , it does not bear its normativeness on its face . |
| 8 | Mathematics can be explained through the written word ‘ We went to the main road at 10.00 am to begin our traffic count . |
| 9 | Contemporary Marxist structuralists arguably confuse voluntarism ( the notion that individuals have unconstrained choices ) with methodological individualism ( the notion that social phenomena should be explained through the intended and unintended consequences of human actors making choices within constrained feasible sets of options ) . |
| 10 | Moreover , just as the empirical data on social inequality that were presented in Chapter 2 could be usefully explained through a combination of Marxist and Weberian theories , in this chapter , the concepts of closure and reproduction also help to bring Marxist and Weberian approaches together , this time for the analysis of the dynamics of class . |
| 11 | The high-performance team idea was explained through a programme which again relied on key personalities , regular meetings and frequent use of the language of the approach — such as ‘ flexible working ’ , ‘ product ownership ’ and ‘ front to back responsibility ’ . |
| 12 | No religion revealed through Mohammed . |
| 13 | Religion revealed through Mohammed . |
| 14 | She tottered through the open door . |
| 15 | As they tottered through the trees this Wednesday morning , she felt herself shaking from somewhere deep inside . |
| 16 | ‘ Extending the range of visits to library and related establishments beyond the London area to which we are limited through lack of funds ’ … |
| 17 | One view central to the lawyer/economist is that , in a world where , on the one hand , resources ( all of which have alternative uses ) are limited through scarcity and where on the other hand , there exists the insatiable human desire to consume those resources , then inevitably , trade-offs and choices must somehow be made . |
| 18 | On the one hand , tenure in top positions is normally limited through a more explicit contractual term of office than is employed in the private sector , and self-perpetuating oligarchies can not form . |
| 19 | As with other holders of potential power , the strategies open to presidents are limited through a variety of factors — the president is constrained through his formal constitutional powers , the degree of popularity he enjoys and the limitations imposed by relations with other countries , for example . |
| 20 | The producers of public expenditure have helped increase public spending since the competition for votes has led politicians to promise more and more spending ; moreover , since governments come into office with a vast amount of spending commitments inherited from previous governments , their ability to reduce these commitments substantially is limited through the length of time that would be required to make such reductions , and further , they are unlikely to court unpopularity through doing so . |
| 21 | Campaign financing is encouraged and yet limited through structural features of the American political system . |
| 22 | The economic and social position of this upper class is determined by their ownership of productive wealth , and the substantial incomes they gain through such ownership . |
| 23 | Manufacturers gain through having their product demonstrated , or even through having it present in a store ( or else they would be unwilling to pay ‘ slotting allowances ’ to supermarkets ) , so that demand is not exogenous to retailing . |
| 24 | This chapter pursues our general theme of exploring locales and localities as the context of interaction between people and the understandings people gain through such interaction . |
| 25 | Monogamy did not , however , simultaneously restrict the sexual freedom of the men , in spite of a pretence otherwise , since men had nothing to lose through philandering . |
| 26 | Both had much to win and to lose through the action . |
| 27 | It is the older wife in a divorce case , who has no recent contact with the labour market or a poor earning capacity , who has sometimes much to lose through the ending of her marriage . |
| 28 | It seemed that Cathy had a lot to lose through her uncle 's death . |
| 29 | The moon was low now and the light , wherever it slanted through the trees , seemed thicker , older and more yellow . |
| 30 | She pushed back her hair , as bright as copper in the sunshine that slanted through the big bay window . |