Example sentences of "which [vb base] across the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several days of unrest followed which spread across the country and involved thousands of students . |
| 2 | When an action potential reaches a synapse it releases the neurotransmitters which spread across the synapse to reach the next , or postsynaptic , nerve cell . |
| 3 | I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment . |
| 4 | Racial tension boiled over in the inner city riots which spread across the nation in the " long hot summers " of 1965–7 . |
| 5 | To prevent this kind of puerile triteness , it is best to use musical metres which break across the verse metre , and in Example 46 a much more subtle effect is obtained : The first version , ( a ) is more ‘ square ’ in rhythm than is ( b ) , and therefore has less poetic potential . |
| 6 | Cross-class interests form the potential basis of cleavages which cut across the exploiter — exploited dichotomy of classical Marxism . |
| 7 | The view ahead was obscured by a section of partially completed walling at the east end , but when he reached the comer Zen fount that the only unpredictable feature of the landscape was a river which cut across the track about a hundred metres further on . |
| 8 | Some of this work can be achieved by machine and at Kaohsiung computerised buffers take care of the large , flat areas ( you can often spot the computer 's work on the backs of guitars , by the buffing lines which run across the body at 90 degrees to the grain ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Today they had become a real sun-trap and it was a relief to swop the white , rocky desert for the subdued greens and browns of heather and grass which sweep across The Allotment up towards Simon Fell , its flanks scarred by the pale slash of Ingleborough 's eastern approach track . |
| 11 | The extraction problem is one of biochemistry : its solution is the haemoglobin molecule , which will combine with any oxygen molecules which diffuse across the membrane lining the lung . |
| 12 | These are the workings ( some still to be seen though partly obscured by later working , and some now deep open stopes of later vintage ) which stretch across the foot of the Red Dell valley following the strike of the Bonsor Vein . |