Example sentences of "[adj] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can then make your own form of secondary double glazing by buying some heavy-duty clear plastic sheeting and stretching this across the inside of the window frame . |
| 2 | Spread this across the surface of the slide with the other cover-glass , and view as soon as possible . |
| 3 | Fine moondust billowed high across the ancient plains of the moon 's dark crescent , expanding in boiling clouds that went high enough to catch the rays of the sun . |
| 4 | An island divides the canal as it prepared to turn onto its most dramatic section , the kilometre long embankment which runs high across the Tame Valley , now accompanied by the Midland Links motorway , the triangle where the end of the M5 meets the M6 , a unique canal environment . |
| 5 | Two bridges pass high across the cutting . |
| 6 | One horse died instantly , its guts flung red and wet across the road . |
| 7 | Since 7 January the 2nd Shock Army , the southernmost element of the Front , had been playing its part in the general Soviet counter-offensive by pushing northwards north-east of Novgorod , trying to pinch off the deep German salient across the Lovat River between Lake Ladoga and Lake Ilmen , and thus to help relieve Leningrad . |
| 8 | The membership of the Association totals more than 700 across the country . |
| 9 | The sea was emerald green , crested snow-white , and the water was myriad-coloured ; reflecting golden sandy shallows , with shades from green hills and blue skies shimmering across the surface . |
| 10 | It must have been lucky to escape the sickles , he mused , as he watched its clumsy struggling across the cut stalks . |
| 11 | The termly style of teaching is also used for non-modular courses and staffing of both types of courses is easier across the Polytechnic when all courses use the same pattern . |
| 12 | An emerald green leather footstool stands demurely by the fire ; a fakir 's brass sideboard from northern India gleams dimly against a wall ; two porcelain skunks chase one another across the landing ; a unique collapsible divan-cum-four-seater sofa edged in cadmium velvet welcomes you to the front room ; a vast oil portrait of a nineteenth-century munitions tycoon , casts a genial glow over the hall . |
| 13 | You have given me a seat where poets of all times bring their tribute , and lovers with deathless names greet one another across the ages . |
| 14 | Shadows and sunlight race about inside the confined cockpit while reflections of white and blue chase one another across the mirror-shiny canopy as we describe the laziest of barrel rolls . |
| 15 | Later , they sat facing one another across the red chenille tablecloth , the teacups in their hands , and Louisa said with the ghost of a smile , ‘ It 's good to see you , Ruth . |
| 16 | He scuttled off to fetch it , leaving them to face one another across the table . |
| 17 | A soft November swell has set the tables rattling metallically at one another across the bar . |
| 18 | They stood far apart , facing one another across the field , without a word , without a single movement for a long while . |
| 19 | Two rivals glared at one another across the ramp . |
| 20 | There was a silence as they glared at one another across the coffee-table . |
| 21 | They studied one another across the dimly lit living-room . |
| 22 | system is constantly being updated and is available on-line across the University 's own computer network as well as via JANET and the national and international networks ; the Main Library 's older guard-book catalogue , which also contains many entries for material in the Faculty Libraries , is available on microfiche . |
| 23 | The low angle means that all shadows — ours , the dogs ' , the trees ' — are long and ghostly across the ice , and the orange light wraps itself around everything so that all things seem to be part of one thing . |
| 24 | Originally the Galloway type was dominant in southwest Scotland ; the breed was formed more specifically towards the end of the sixteenth century and was already popular across the border in the seventeenth century for fattening in large numbers . |
| 25 | The curtains were not drawn half across the window and so closing out the light as most curtains were wont to do , but were wide apart showing , of all things , a piece of grassland parched by the sun but , nevertheless , still giving evidence that it was grass by the strip in the shadow of the house . |
| 26 | When you have travelled half across the world , with the background of the man you are going to meet gradually being filled in for you , a picture of him inevitably forms in the mind . |
| 27 | ‘ And a gardener-handyman , ’ said Charlotte , her eyes following the vigorous heave and surge of the mole-brown water as it tore down past them and ripped at the curve of the bank , lipping half across the trodden right of way . |
| 28 | It remains quite clear across the years , the topography absolutely plain , so precise in details of dress that I can use them to place the dream in historical time . |
| 29 | She could see clear across the water to the smashed dome of the Pleasure Gardens at New Brighton . |
| 30 | Then , in an industry that considers two-colour calling cards flashy , it was hard not to notice the earnest young men and women with the L Ron Hubbard given mission to evangelise about Dianetics , or stunt rider Eddie Kidd , who is carrying self-confidence to the point of leap-frogging his motor cycle clear across the Great Wall of China . |