Example sentences of "directly across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also in 1919 , the first flight directly across the Atlantic , was achieved on l5th , June by Captain Alcock and Lt. W. Brown . |
| 2 | Based in Gloucestershire , the organization had formed after a series of childhood leukaemia cases was discovered in and around the village of Lydney , directly across the Severn Estuary from the nuclear power station at Berkeley . |
| 3 | From a vantage point directly across the road , there was a spectacular night-time vision of a 100-mile carpet of lights in the San Fernando valley . |
| 4 | This position is reached when the board faces directly across the wind , the sail making the a right angle with the board . |
| 5 | The actual control of the level at pin 5 is accomplished by transistor TR2 whose base ( b ) is fed from the potential divider chain of resistor R20 preset VR1 and resistor R21 connected directly across the output terminals . |
| 6 | This tidy sum enabled him and Anne to move from the tiny Village apartment which they rented for $125 a month to a much larger air-conditioned place for $400 a month , a brownstone directly across the road from 16 West 11th Street , just off Fifth Avenue . |
| 7 | Willersley Rocks lie directly across the River Derwent from the rather grand mansion that gives the cliff its full Sunday name . |
| 8 | The headquarters of the GLC , the great pile of County Hall , changed from being a tedious and unloved administrative centre to become the Right-On rival to the House of Commons directly across the River Thames . |
| 9 | Further on , the road crosses open moorland to arrive at Grudie Bridge , which is not now the delightful picnic spot it used to be , the old stone bridge having been replaced and many of the noble pines sacrificed to road widening ; nothing , however , can diminish the majesty of Slioch directly across the water . |
| 10 | Directly across the channel was another , bigger bay , a long curving stretch of lovely white sand , with above it a sweep of green turf and bracken rising as far as the dark circle of the broch . |
| 11 | This phosphate lies directly across the DNA duplex from the one interacting with the B helix of the adjacent repressor . |
| 12 | Steep paths lead down through the landscaped gardens and over a foot-bridge to the main building directly across the road . |
| 13 | Situated in Mayfair , directly across the park from her own house , its clients were drawn from the highest echelons of society . |
| 14 | As the tube pulled into Westminster station Trevor Magee looked directly across the compartment and saw his own reflection in the glass . |
| 15 | For one phase excited the main flux path lies from one stator tooth , across the air-gap into a rotor tooth , directly across the rotor to another rotor tooth/air-gap/stator tooth combination and returns via the back-iron . |
| 16 | The bank was directly across the street from the shop . |
| 17 | And er th the fire was getting that bad that I mean the smoke was blowing directly across the platform at that stage . |
| 18 | The ball rolls about 10 yards directly across the pitch ( to Newall ) . |
| 19 | I was out in front of the Hatch & Hodges office at the time , directly across the street , and I got a clear look at the girl even with all the people around . |
| 20 | The wind is blowing directly across the boat , it 's known as the basic two position . |
| 21 | From the basic two position , we pull in the mainsheet , we start sailing away on a reach , the wind is blowing directly across the boat and we accelerate away . |