Example sentences of "[adv] across the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is unlikely , as the absolute magnitude of these stars does not vary much across the dividing line , and in any case would not affect the xx ratio . |
| 2 | ‘ If you 're here to see Adam , ’ Rourke said , as Lissa walked dazedly across the soot-blackened carpet , ‘ you 're in for a disappointment . |
| 3 | He had gone halfway across the first field when he heard a cry behind him . |
| 4 | Green-skinned warriors will travel halfway across the Old World just to fight alongside a particularly powerful Warlord . |
| 5 | At the end of the Second World War , we could go it alone across the whole spectrum of military weapon systems from high-performance aircraft at one end to the simple automatic rifle at the other . |
| 6 | I wandered alone across the muttering stream and satisfied myself that the spongy land was still lined with alders . |
| 7 | It had been a wet May with a few scarce hours of sunshine at the beginning of the month and little since , but today the grey skies that had hung over the land like a shroud had broken , and high white clumps of cloud were bowling swiftly across the blue sky betokening a day of good weather . |
| 8 | They paced together across the black brick paving . |
| 9 | But the challenge we face is the task of linking these immediate local concerns together across the international division of labour , transcending national boundaries , turning our back on the state and using all the means at our disposal to build a radical , democratic movement of civil society . |
| 10 | Before a bemused Cranston could reply , Athelstan had slipped out of the room , walking gingerly across the noisy Nightingale Gallery , down the stairs and out into Cheapside . |
| 11 | Blackened derricks and ‘ nodding donkey ’ pumps crowd thickly across the rocky landscape , bleeding crude into the soil . |
| 12 | The charm of Achiltibuie lies in the seaward prospect to a group of islands , the Summer Isles , and especially across the wide breadth of Loch Broom to the lofty heights beyond Dundonnell and Gairloch . |
| 13 | It comes trailing in across the seething crowd of heads without a single bite . |
| 14 | Well , only across the other side , they sat down there . |
| 15 | Place the acetate film gently across the lower margin of the specimen where a pool of acetone will have collected . |
| 16 | The name and age of the party boy or girl could be piped or painted on many of the cakes — perhaps across the large band of the hot-air balloon , on the space rocket or on the pop-up birthday card . |
| 17 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 18 | Unaware of his presence , she was sitting on the soft springy turf , leaning back against the ancient wall of the summer-house and gazing dreamily across the blue haze of the estuary . |
| 19 | They received him readily , and haled him away across the moist grass just touched in the hollows with rime . |
| 20 | A few weak lights shone on the far side , and headlights on the Otter Ferry road , two miles away across the black expanse of waves , swung out briefly , like a lighthouse beam … and then dimmed and disappeared . |
| 21 | He walked away across the uneven ground and , as Hari watched him , she felt her anger subside leaving only the dull ache of disappointment . |
| 22 | There , some twenty paces away across the moonlit clearing , was a crouched figure pointing a shotgun straight at them . |
| 23 | A hundred yards away across the rain-drowned compound Dong and Hoc were weeping openly as they embraced their father in the blackness of their leaking barrack hut . |
| 24 | She walked away across the polished floor , then halted and turned . |
| 25 | Multilateral rules are usually enforceable as between the exchange and each member , rather than generally across the whole membership . |
| 26 | It then falls away steeply across the limited war band to its low point between the guerrilla war and terrorism bands , where the frequency of such wars in the post-war period has demonstrated the greatest weakness in military deterrence — ‘ Davids ’ have found it all too easy to defy ‘ Goliaths ’ in these bands as the French and American defeats in Vietnam have shown so vividly . |
| 27 | Clasping her to him , he urged her off balance , his mouth claiming hers as they fell backwards across the narrow bed . |
| 28 | We pick up the plane for Punta Arenas at Arica , just across the Chilean border . ’ |
| 29 | John Ellis of Hanmer ( a small village just across the Welsh border ) was presented at the manorial court in 1581 ‘ for erecting of one bay of a house upon the lords waste grounde in Myddle woode ’ . |
| 30 | This will eventually be extended to Zhuhai , the special economic zone just across the Chinese border . |