Example sentences of "[coord] across the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When wood begins to fail in compression little lines of buckled fibres can just be seen running diagonally or across the grain but these are easily missed unless the surface is clean and you know what to look for . |
| 2 | The faint glow on the skyline gave him some guidance , but apart from that , he could n't tell whether he was moving towards the shore , or across the bay , or just circling endlessly . |
| 3 | The danger from the footpad , the silent assassin , was always present , here in his church or across the river . |
| 4 | They were paid by these , and by the pennies of helpless men and women who might be forced to cross half of a strange continent before even embarking on the Atlantic crossing : from central Europe to Le Havre , or across the North Sea and via the smoky Pennine valleys to Liverpool . |
| 5 | Concession or legitimization can occur up , down or across the hierarchy . |
| 6 | It was so pitifully easy for the customers : the temptation so hard to resist , to pick up a bar or two of chocolate from the counter , a packet of tea from the shelf , even a bag of flour , as my aunt came from behind the counter , passed through to the kitchen , down the steps into the old still-room to draw vinegar from the cask , or paraffin from the tank ( its pump rattling up-down , up-down ) , or across the yard for corn or toppings , or up the back stairs for some item kept on the little landing ; so that the shop began to make small profit or none at all . |
| 7 | Later , he showed her around and told her in detail the things that needed doing to the house , and she imagined her father here , sliding down the banisters or across the ballroom floor , and she felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her like the muffling fog . |
| 8 | On the back or across the front of these photographs were signatures duplicated from the letters ; John Addington Symonds , Baron Corvo , Robbie Ross , for Boy with kindest regards from Reggie Turner . |
| 9 | These primer pairs allowed for PCR not only of the AD1 sequence but across its junction with either flanking type III repeat or across the junction of both 5' and 3' flanking repeats . |
| 10 | Get there early — at least one hour before you expect to see the badgers — and do n't walk over the sett or across the entrances . |
| 11 | Popular inter-urban lines , as between Glasgow and Edinburgh or across the Pennines , have seen growth rates of up to 40 per cent . |
| 12 | Sometimes the bravest rats ran out onto the floor or across the tops of the pictures . |
| 13 | Either aboard the ferry from Plymouth to Santander or across the Channel and down through France . |
| 14 | From Tarsus , Paul continues his missionary journey , which lasts some fourteen years and takes him across virtually the whole of the eastern Mediterranean world — not only throughout the Holy Land , but to Asia Minor as well , and across the sea to Greece . |
| 15 | One day the opportunity to escape presents itself and the book follows their adventures on the journey along Regent 's canal and across the sea to the forests , not of their imagined Africa , but of Borneo or Sumatra , home to the Orang Utan . |
| 16 | His cruises in Blue Dragon I , II , and III up the west coast of Scotland and across the North Sea to Norway and the North Cape became legendary . |
| 17 | At a time when constitutional change and development at home and across the North Sea are much in the air , I am an unequivocal and enthusiastic backer of the idea that Scotland ought to seek as soon as possible to become a member state of the European Community . |
| 18 | It happened initially because at that time separatists were few in number , and across the country we all knew each other more or less . |
| 19 | Stories of entrepreneurial heroism , come from across the economy and across the country : professors who create whole new industries and become instant millionaires when their inventions go from the laboratory to the marketplace ; youthful engineers who quit their jobs , strike out on their own , and strike it rich . |
| 20 | On 29 January 1968 the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front launched its attack on Saigon , and across the country . |
| 21 | On May 3 sources at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) in Brussels claimed that on Feb. 25 , the day of major opposition demonstrations in Moscow and across the country [ see p. 37322-23 ] , a division of up to 6,000 heavily armed troops had been mobilized on the outskirts of Moscow . |
| 22 | If we fail to take this opportunity Mr Mayor , as I as I feel we are about to do I am a hundred percent convinced that in years to come people will look back at this year , or however long it happens to be and say they missed out on a golden opportunity to make social , to make more houses and to make social housing better in this city and across the country . |
| 23 | Thus , if there is a two-dimensional paradigm in the language , it must be drilled both down and across the paradigm . |
| 24 | It was pleasant out of doors and I went for a walk , down by the station , along the Wharf and across the promenade . ’ |
| 25 | He had rooms in the beautiful Pepys building , at the end which looked over the River Cam and across the river to some slum-like warehouses . |
| 26 | The way the parapet wall , which screens the attics , sweeps down in a bold curve is exceptionally pretty , and it really makes you want to stop and stare at the house as you glimpse it through trees and across the river meadow from the Dorchester to Godmanstone road . |
| 27 | I gaze through his boughs , through the scintillating leaves , and across the river to the field beyond . |
| 28 | Stand here and look up at the River Esk a famous salmon fishing river ; and across the river at St. Mary 's church , at the top of 199 steps , furnished by local shipwrights . |
| 29 | Luxor , next to Karnak and across the river from the Valley of the Kings , suffers most . |
| 30 | It s a penthouse in a high rise on the Upper East Side , with a spectacular three-sided view over the city and across the river . |