Example sentences of "across [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Continents are carried passively on moving sectors of plates which also embrace ocean floor ; they do not ‘ drift ’ across the latter ( Fig. 18.2 ) .
2 The basic unit of credit is the module and in order to try to standardize its credit value across the many subjects and disciplines of the Modular Course it is defined in terms of notional student effort .
3 Our awards are renowned for their transportability across the many countries in which the Board has been recognised for more than a century .
4 Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth .
5 Luke smiled again , reaching across the few inches of space Fran had managed to leave between them to catch her hand and raise it to his lips as he pressed a lovingly tender kiss to her fingertips .
6 Although she did not even turn to look at him , a delicious warmth began to spread through her inert form — as though some electrical force was quietly pulsing across the few feet of water separating their bodies .
7 On the way to Mrs Zamzam 's land , I looked across the same Lebanese border from the Israeli side and could actually make out in the far distance Mrs Zamzam 's camp at Rashidiyeh inside Lebanon .
8 Another way of putting across the same kind of message is :
9 If you come across the same situation the newly created Frog Mortality Unit at the Institute of Zoology wants to know .
10 Then , to build upon that simple , flat definition of the hedge 's shape , pastel No. 199 , black , was scribbled across the same area , covering all but a strip at the top with an irregular criss-crossing scrawl .
11 In the following year , addressing the Royal United Services Institute , he was to be found covering his tracks across the same ground : ‘ They accept us now ; they used to suspect us of being a trap to catch boys for the Army …
12 I can also , if I erm come across the same problem a few times I could hopefully work on that and then probably eradicate altogether .
13 The Ridgeway in Wiltshire and Berkshire may well have been used in prehistoric times , but probably no more so than the line of the A4 across the same counties .
14 ‘ We 've come across the same thing all over Europe .
15 To test this hypothesis , measures of perceived similarity or difference between situations are required which may subsequently be related to measures of similarity or difference in a person 's behaviour across the same set of situations .
16 cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time .
17 However , local MP Tony Banks says they wanted to get across the same message .
18 Jennie then asked Katharine to come across the half diagonal in a nice , steady canter , and to imagine ‘ picking him up and putting him down again on the other leg . ’
19 Then , at Queenstown , South Island 's most popular tourist town , you might be lucky enough to run across a former world-class exponent of the ski-slopes , Murray ‘ Mo ’ Gardner .
20 Gamekeeper John Bosher returning to the Blenheim estate wood where 10 years ago he came across a half decomposed body .
21 No longer you have to grovel through the woods each spring in hopes of stumbling across a few of these delectable fungi .
22 Science International certainly ranged widely during its first week , as well as getting across a few simple principles .
23 But my hunch proved right , I came across a few likely looking names and phone numbers and eventually I found a breeder in Bow , East London , who had several barn owls , all brothers and sisters , who would be the perfect training age for me .
24 As we turned another corner we came across a few villagers handling copra .
25 As Pavel stepped out onto the asphalt , he could see the take off of a Cathay Pacific 747 through the chainlink and across a few hundred feet of grass ; it seemed shockingly , dangerously close , and he turned his face away to look toward the main building .
26 In minutes they stood facing each other across a few feet of upland grass , the fresher horses of Jinneth 's escort stamping impatiently .
27 As there is no soil at all on this rocky islet vegetation is almost non-existent , but we did come across a few tenacious rock plants growing from the guano in rock crevices .
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