Example sentences of "stretching [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second was an untidy and protracted business , stretching on through the spring and summer and coinciding with the refusal of The Possessed to be contained within the limits of a ‘ tendentious ’ sideshow . |
| 2 | The exterior became a forest of vertical stone pinnacles , stretching up into the vaults of heaven ; the interior a mystic chiaroscuro in stone , gently illuminated by shafts of sunlight gloriously coloured by their transition through the cathedral glass . |
| 3 | Inside it was cool and sombre , the pillars stretching up into the blackness , the nave and aisles silent except for the birds which nested under the eaves outside . |
| 4 | But he could make out her form stretching up to the light . |
| 5 | For a start , it was not really a country-house at all , rather a monstrosity on the edge of Bletchley town , with suburban dwellings stretching up to the gates . |
| 6 | He was sitting at a carefully chosen table with the magnificence of Princes Street stretching out through the window behind him . |
| 7 | Once in the resort the view from Sorrento town is equally splendid , stretching out across the wide Bay of Naples to Vesuvius — hazily outlined in the far distance . |
| 8 | At first they saw only the little hand — the fist , decomposed but stretching out of the shallow grave . |
| 9 | Immediately in front of him , stretching out into the mud and sand of the now almost empty estuary , was a barrier of salmon traps . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he said at last , conversationally , stretching out along the cockpit seat and crossing long hard legs at the ankles in front of him , ‘ is blatant prejudice a temporary flaw , or a permanent feature of your personality ? ’ |
| 11 | People take it easy here , lying under beach umbrellas , stretching out in the sun or slipping into the sea for a swim . |
| 12 | There was deposition in large alluvial fans stretching out from the mountains in the south and the north-east into the flat plain . |
| 13 | Heinsch saw sacred geometry and what he called sacred geography as being part of a continuum stretching out from the structure and form of the building into the surrounding countryside . |
| 14 | When a phosphate ion binds to such a protein ( this process is called phosphorylation ) the protein changes its shape , curling up or stretching out within the membrane , so as to open or close channels which run across the width of the membrane from the outside to the inside of the cell . |
| 15 | The Army was more ambivalent : while welcoming the end of National Service and the return to ‘ real soldiering ’ with a regular army , the Army Council looked askance at the loss of 51 regiments , 17 of which were infantry battalions with battle honours stretching back over the centuries . |
| 16 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |
| 17 | And today we have a contribution to make in terms of our history of free trade , our outward-looking attitude to the world , and the weight of our tradition of parliamentary and democratic government stretching back over the centuries — something unmatched by any of our partners , for some of whom the very concept of democracy is of recent origin . |
| 18 | KOD belong to and older and , dare I say , bolder tradition of British independent rock stretching back through The Bunnymen , The Banshees , The Cocteau Twins and The Smiths . |
| 19 | Among the innumerable items which they brought away from Little Lea — a lumpish wardrobe to which Jack had a sentimental attachment , for instance — there were countless letters , diaries and family papers stretching back to the lifetime of their Lewis and Hamilton grandparents . |
| 20 | He had been a loyal supporter for many years , his business relationship stretching back to the 1900s when he booked John 's touring pantomimes . |
| 21 | It has been known for a woman going into labour to suddenly perceive the connection between herself , her mother , mother 's mother , all the mothers of her line stretching back to the beginnings of time , and all the daughters that will follow after . |
| 22 | In Bohemia especially , with its long tradition of industrialisation stretching back to the 1830s , where there has always been a strong commitment to the idea of social equality , where the call for national equality against the Germans had a strong social context , it 's quite logical that some kind of socialist or social thought will in the end prevail . |
| 23 | Weaving traditions in this region are extremely old , stretching back to the 2nd and perhaps the 3rd millennium BC . |
| 24 | To understand the meaning of survival , stand beneath a maidenhair tree ( Ginkgo biloba ) or a dawn redwood ( Metasequoia glyptostoboides ) ; both are well represented in Trust gardens and both are ‘ living fossils ’ with pedigrees stretching back to the age of the dinosaurs . |
| 25 | The family Olive Saunderson married into had a story to equal her own , also stretching back to the seventeenth century when Zachariah Field left Yorkshire to settle in Massachusetts as a yeoman farmer Norman Field 's father was born there in 1831 . |
| 26 | In his ignorance , the right hon. Member for Chingford — I have given him notice of this — sees British history as a continuum stretching back to the dawn of time . |
| 27 | Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level . |
| 28 | This , however , is an over-simplified view as the current phase of uplift and volcanicity represents only the most recent episode in a complex history stretching back to the Mesozoic ; moreover , the history of this vast mountain system differs greatly from one part to another . |
| 29 | In Britain , too , observers have noted instances of direct government interference in the day-to-day running of the railways stretching back to the early days of nationalization . |
| 30 | The Old Testament kings had been initiated with unction ; and in any case the Carolingians , unlike their Merovingian predecessors amongst the Franks , could not depend for their sacrality upon a long royal genealogy stretching back into the past . |