Example sentences of "just across the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Academy of Arts , for example , maintained a slavish loyalty to portraiture , landscapes and the inspiration of literature , while just across the English Channel the art world was alive with one ‘ ism ’ after another — Impressionism , Fauvism , Cubism , Surrealism . |
| 2 | Just across the Devonshire border is the old mining landscape of Blanchdown , west of Tavistock , where , in the middle decades of the nineteenth century , the Devon Great Consols was the richest copper mine in the world : now its miles of spoil-heaps have created a silent and desolate beauty of their own , and foxes and snakes haunt the broken buildings and the glades between . |
| 3 | It was a simple task to find Moses Downer 's birth registered twenty-one years earlier under the registration district of Fordingbridge , not many miles away just across the Hampshire county boundary . |
| 4 | Just across the Dean Bridge beside the imposing facade of Stewarts Melville college can be found the gracious Victorian setting of the Queensway Hotel . |
| 5 | ‘ There are , ’ he said , ‘ caves up from the beach , just across the Forth to the west of Inverkeithing . |
| 6 | County Hall , just across the Thames from Parliament itself , must have been an irritating sight , with its banner proclaiming the total of London 's unemployed . |
| 7 | She was n't broke — she 'd found a job selling cosmetics at Macy 's , just across the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan . |