Example sentences of "of [noun sg] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This created an unprecedented degree of unity across the sectarian divide . |
| 2 | The awards for Assessors and Verifiers of NVQs were introduced this year , thereby providing qualifications and ensuring standardisation of assessment across the UK . |
| 3 | THE surprise return of a Tory government sparked a wave of euphoria across the City , adding more than 5 p.c. to share prices . |
| 4 | The common pattern seems to be that there is an uneven flow of support across the generations , with a net transfer from older to younger which continues throughout the life cycle , and indeed after death in the form of inheritance . |
| 5 | OWN FINANCES A spokesman for Cleveland education department said it was difficult to assess accurately the total cost of vandalism across the whole county because many schools now controlled their own finances . |
| 6 | The problem became one of underachievement across the whole age and ability range . |
| 7 | In this essay , I have attempted to suggest some ways in which we might look beyond the conceptual dichotomy between ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ , villagers and bureaucrats , to ask how the dynamic of interaction across the boundary is played out . |
| 8 | Afterwards I thought that that , after all , is what religion is — the pinning-up of faith across the ugly vista of logic and reality , to fulfil a need . |
| 9 | There has always been a sharing of hymnody across the denominations , and anthems and songs are increasingly being regarded as part of our common musical currency . |
| 10 | This spatiotemporal organization of calcium signalling seems to depend upon two key processes — influx of calcium across the plasma membrane and a regenerative release of calcium from internal stores controlled by either RYR or IP 3 R. |
| 11 | The decreased release of serotonin was also associated with a change in the presynaptic membrane properties , in particular , with a reduction in the flow of calcium across the membrane and into the synapse — again the biochemical significance of this will become clear later . |
| 12 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 13 | This may help them assess the range of teaching quality within the school , on the assumption that a generally high level of provision across the week for a given class will tend to produce better attendance and vice versa . |
| 14 | Now that the education and library boards independently assess the formula according to which they delegate budgets to schools , does not the Minister fear that a great disparity in provision will result — not only in regard to pupil-teacher ratios , but in regard to every other aspect of provision across the different area boards ? |
| 15 | In spite of the brightness and richness of the sky the sequences of recession across the water must dominate . |
| 16 | I think that that will ensure two things : first , greater equality of action across the Community ; and , secondly , to a greater degree than ever before that every nation that signs up to a directive considers in detail the implications and costs of that directive before it becomes law . |
| 17 | It was these two issues that would remain as seemingly irremovable areas of tension across the next twenty years . |
| 18 | Maggie looked blankly at the face grinning at her from the queue , and as she pushed a cup of tea across the counter she said , ‘ You were saying ? ’ |
| 19 | Do me a favour , Webley could n't even pass a mug of tea across the counter last season , let alone pass a ball . |
| 20 | And I was just thinking then that er Frank Clarke will want will want that sort of speed across the across the ground from Cooper , it 's perhaps something they 've lack in recent games stability at the heart of their defence of Notts Forest . |
| 21 | A BRITON was behind bars in Florida yesterday after allegedly admitting that he preyed on women estate agents in a trail of crime across the USA . |
| 22 | And while research continues to build up a clearer picture of the distribution of radon across the country , environmental health officers are hoping that the new results will encourage local authorities to enforce strict building regulations . |
| 23 | In a spirit of friendship across the Floor of the House , I have to say that if the hon. Gentleman really thinks that he advances the cause of housing by denigrating my hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Planning , he displays an ignorance that is staggering even by Labour party standards . |
| 24 | In its stead he built Winston Grange on a piece of glebeland across the fields from the ancient and unassuming little church . |
| 25 | ‘ What the fuck are you talking about ? ’ he exploded , spraying small bits of bacon across the table . |
| 26 | Her last task was to lay thick strips of bacon across the turkey . |
| 27 | He was almost of a mind to tear the sheets from the bed , heave her out , send her sprawling in an agony of humiliation across the floor . |
| 28 | Lights burned at several of the windows , throwing faint spills of light across the white-painted stonework . |
| 29 | Picasso makes full use of the play of light across the rough , irregular texture of the bronze to accentuate the dissolution of the face into sharp , angular and incisive planes . |
| 30 | Which opened wider , throwing a long and somehow bizarre shape of light across the alley , everything exaggerated and distorted including the elongated and backlit shadow moving out within its frame … |