Example sentences of "[art] [noun] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masers have allowed scientists to track the infinitesimally slow drift of the continents across the earth 's surface and to check the predictions of Einstein 's theory of relativity that gravity or acceleration will cause a clock to run slow . |
| 2 | ‘ In any case I am relieved to find that the embassy to the continents across the Great Sea has , as it seems , your approval . ’ |
| 3 | The stretcher across the back of the chair will similarly have angled shoulders , but not necessarily at the same angle as the seat rail , as the back legs may taper away towards the bottom ; indeed they generally do . |
| 4 | A two minute drive of heart stopping intensity , foot flat on the board across the open runway , would get us to the other side . |
| 5 | Reluctantly , he pushed the money across the table towards her , then bent forward to listen . |
| 6 | He sighed , took out another ten pound note and slid the money across the counter , calculating as he did so that he could have eaten adequately and drunk excessively for a fortnight in Lindos for what a night at the Skein of Geese had cost him . |
| 7 | Where the practices of each of the merging firms are already compatible , much of the difficulty is removed but this is rather unlikely to be the case across the board . |
| 8 | It houses an elegant restaurant from which the views across the Danube to the parliament building and much of Pest are magnificent . |
| 9 | The views across the Weald from the windows of this coach are impressive as the train trundles towards Horstead Keynes and beyond . |
| 10 | The views across the valley to Mont Blanc were the best so far — amazing . |
| 11 | One of the most striking features of the diction of the fabliaux which the reader of this book should already have noted , and , perhaps , one of the most intriguing and intermittently popular features of the genre across the centuries , is the use of scurrilous language . |
| 12 | To the time she had thrown the copies of the contract across the desk at him ? |
| 13 | It is half past three of the afternoon and already the houses across the burn are fading into a sodden gloom . |
| 14 | The statue has been named The Yomper , but the photograph was taken after the Battles of Mount Harriet and Two Sisters which followed the yomp across the island . |
| 15 | Finally Rose 's family filled into the pew across the aisle and Rose came behind on her brother 's arm . |
| 16 | Once again we set out in the pre-dawn walk through the forest , the amble across the alpine pastures , and the short struggle up the screes to the foot of the wall . |
| 17 | The experience in my hon. Friend 's constituency is typical of the experience across the country . |
| 18 | The contrast across the channel could n't be more stark . |
| 19 | So far the concentration solely on library skills has isolated and compartmentalized the skills in specific library environments , but the new , broader concept of information skills encompassing learning , study and communication skills strongly linked to the education process , does offer some scope for the take-up of the skills across the curriculum and through the curriculum to other levels . |
| 20 | Brenda Pridmore , recently appointed Clerical Officer/receptionist at Hoggatt 's Laboratory , pushed the marmalade across the breakfast table and began methodically slicing thin strips from the white of her fried egg , postponing , as she had from early childhood , that cataclysmic moment when she would plunge the fork into the glistening yellow dome . |
| 21 | The route south followed the roads across the wilderness of the Outback . |
| 22 | If it had a secret she would do her best to discover it and she was not going to miss the trail across the Mountains of the Moon to what was undoubtedly the greatest small picture in the world . |
| 23 | During the toddler period some children 's awareness and motivation outstrips their co-ordination and so anger at not being able to get the doll 's arm into the jumper or the man into the fire engine can suddenly cause the child to scream in frustration and throw the toy across the room . |
| 24 | The place name Srpsko Polje , on the route across the Velebit mountains from the old uskok castle of Senj , is one example . |
| 25 | As you approach the Peak District National Park from the west across the monotonous Cheshire Plain , past the star-probing Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope , a small blimp on the horizon gradually takes on the classic , pyramidal mountain shape — a sort of mini Mount Fuji . |
| 26 | To the west across the valley there was a fine view of the easy-angled slopes of the Hinku Nup glacier leading up to the Mingbo La ( 5817m ) . |
| 27 | On May 15 six former East German leaders were charged in connection with the May 1974 " shoot-to-kill " order which resulted in the death of more than 200 people seeking to escape to the West across the inter-German border . |
| 28 | The hoarding across the street was still inviting any chilled onlooker to enjoy the vitamin-packed goodness of a sunshine breakfast . |
| 29 | Yet these houses , together with the small neat church with its yellow facing-brick and Gothic windows , the cottage across the road and the leafy entrance to Bachelor 's Walk formed one of the most painted and photographed corners of Portadown and graced many of a local postcard . |
| 30 | Liu Chang moved back from Chen , then leaned forward again , placing the strip across the sleeping girl 's mouth . |