Example sentences of "[verb] right across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ With the Hendrix show the work goes right across the range and it covers all the bases . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's easy , simple and elegant and it goes right across the age range . ’ |
| 3 | There 's always a demand for jokes and it goes right across the board , ’ says Neville . ’ |
| 4 | And study after study comes up , even in this brave new world , about the fact that only eight per cent or so of the child care is actually done by men , and this goes right across the classes . |
| 5 | At dinner they took in their soup with gusts of air and could be heard right across the Hall . |
| 6 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 7 | Science , as it has developed right across the board since the end of the sixteenth century , has operated with the axiomatic assumption that events in the material world , out there , external to human minds , are governed by regularities which are so coherent and consistent that they can be treated as " natural laws " . |
| 8 | Yet we can see little sign of the central powerhouse at optical wavelengths , because a dark swathe of obscuring dust lies right across the galaxy ( Figure 3A ) . |
| 9 | One building stands out in this dispiriting panorama of post-war mediocrity : a dark powerful mass of brickwork with a tall central tower that stands right across the Thames from Wren 's dome . |
| 10 | cause he 's come right across the |
| 11 | And four and a quarter hours later , when it actually was four , and the bedclothes both above and below were a mere conglomerate heap , and Tessa 's strapping behind had pushed right across the bed , and Bob was cold and stiff from head to foot , and had been neither asleep nor awake for a moment , it felt as though the solar system had finally run down and stopped , and closed off the ever-renewing spring of pure , fresh time for good and all . |
| 12 | Five years from the original appeal in nineteen eighty eight , those nurses still have n't gone all the way through the regrading process and any union officer will tell you that does n't just occur in City Hospital in this case , but it occurs right across the as well . |
| 13 | Erm not really you know maybe in an out of the way way they might but you know the type of musicians we are or whatever , you know we can do say I can do all the Irish stuff the up tempo rousing songs I can play Irish and Scottish dances and that kind of stuff , then Tony can do right across the board with easy listening stuff and country stuff and even one of the tracks on our new C D is er is er well what I would term a pop song . |
| 14 | We have a series of finance plans right across the Escort range . |
| 15 | I had now turned right across the width of the mill where another staircase led up to the top floor . |
| 16 | The Polish Corridor , with its customs barriers , check-points and crossing places cut right across the Vistula trade complex . |
| 17 | They cut right across the basic philosophy of rugby football — that is , to go forward and make ground . |
| 18 | There are many problems which cut right across the artificial frontiers separating these subjects , particularly when attempts are made to interpret thought and feeling . |
| 19 | The Motel Ontario scheme has over 100 participating motels , motor inns and motor hotels spread right across the province from Cornwall in the East to Grand Bend in the West . |
| 20 | The corridor was in the embrace of a deep silence which spread right across the dark garden court below and beyond the open verandah which ran along all four inward-looking walls of the house on the first floor , on to which the bedrooms opened . |
| 21 | The cattle were either ‘ walked ’ down to the marshes direct from market or were brought to the nearest point by train : today they are transported by motor-lorries , and in recent years a rough road has been built right across the marshes to enable lorries to have direct access . |
| 22 | So I said I had to make a quick decision either I was going to go up me chain past his whatsit and into the roof , or else go thirty feet down and run right across the chamber into whichever er level they could go to . |
| 23 | Full length battens extend right across the sail . |
| 24 | Just why a partner or a member of the family is so opposed to certain changes is hard to fathom but since the Full Moon on the 14th cuts right across the home and career angles of your horoscope , you may have to turn your full attention to work matters for a while and leave property or domestic issues waiting on hold until towards end the of the month . |
| 25 | This distinction , which cuts right across the familiar division into arts and sciences , seems to me by far the most important that there is . |
| 26 | Already we 're seeing sector the er , those er new independent colleges coming along and saying do you recognize , er G M B and er during the single union agreement with UNISON and we 've got ta get our act together cos the only with thing that 's going on , we 're seeing local authorities getting smashed up and we 're seeing UNISON which will be going right across the board . |
| 27 | Some had floundered right across the room before they had expired . |
| 28 | Everything seems to be selling right across the board . ’ |
| 29 | It was needed in Britain and it was needed right across the British Empire . |
| 30 | The warm tides in fact flowed right across the Pacific Ocean , originating ( it seems ) off the east coast of South East Asia and to the north of Australia . |