Example sentences of "[be] [verb] across the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , Dubhe and Alkaid are moving across the sky in a direction opposite to that of the remaining five stars , so that over a sufficiently long period the Plough will lose its familiar shape . |
| 2 | The same process may also be happening across the border in the North East Oriente of Ecuador ( Hiraoka and Yamamoto 1980 ) . |
| 3 | The accounts are , as usual , contradictory , but according to the fullest account de Tourville next despatched nine of his ships back to Brest to collect additional troops , who were to be transported across the Channel in shallow-draught galleys , collected from the Mediterranean , with a mere two feet [ 0.6 m ] of freeboard between waterline and deck . |
| 4 | I do n't want to be blown across the room in the first ten minutes so I hang back a little as we sit round the table with Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott to read the scene through and discuss it . |
| 5 | I sucked a huge breath , ducked low , praying I might yet slip through beneath the bulk of the web which I knew must be draped across the passage in front of me . |
| 6 | In these few words we may only point to the kaleidoscope of enthusiasm and activity by secondees that has been generated across the country in such a short space of time . |
| 7 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 8 | Although our activities are spread across the world in [ 20 ] countries , the North Sea and Alaska still predominate — two areas which provided [ 90% ] of the profit in 1992 . |
| 9 | Thousands of the dazzling white birds were spaced across the summit in close proximity . |
| 10 | A straight-edge is used to guide a glass cutter , which is drawn across the glass in one firm continuous stroke . |
| 11 | Cleveland has some 20,000 empty school places , and spends some £80 per pupil on its central administration , while only £40 per pupil is spent across the border in North Yorkshire . |
| 12 | A strong wind was blowing across the platform in the direction of the loch , accompanied by a cold , driving rain . |