Example sentences of "which [vb -s] across the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building and sculptures certainly underwent repairs in antiquity ; but a theory that the present order of the metopes is due to a rearrangement before Pausanias 's time , the six Peloponnesian labours having been originally together on the west , the others on the east , seems to me unnecessary ; indeed certainly wrong , since I find a stylistic distinction between the two ends as they are which cuts across the geographical division . |
| 2 | It was well named : this was the edge of the Great Rift Valley , a gigantic dyke which cuts across the entire continent of Africa from the Red Sea to Mozambique , and from our vantage point the ground fell away , almost sheer , to the flat valley floor , some 2,000 feet below . |
| 3 | The complications arise from the way in which it has to maintain an internal planning dynamic which cuts across the traditional demarcation lines of faculties and departments . |
| 4 | This is the question which cuts across the whole range of biotechnological activity . |
| 5 | In Gurtin in the Omagh area , where Riofinex has already caused huge disturbance to local people simply through its exploration activities and where it is proposing to stripmine for gold , there is strong opposition which stretches across the political spectrum from Sinn Fein to the Democratic Unionist Party . |
| 6 | Underground lay huge mineral resources and abundant supplies of energy in the great coal belt which runs across the northern hemisphere and is richest and most accessible in Europe . |
| 7 | This is principally a path following a narrow undulating ledge which runs across the northern face of Pillar . |