Example sentences of "[noun] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still owned by its employees , Meiko has broken into the American and Japanese supercomputer markets , and now has offices across the US and in Europe . |
| 2 | Intergraph is one of the world 's leading manufacturers of graphics workstations and computer aided design and manufacturing ( CADCAM ) systems , with offices across the globe and annual sales exceeding $1bn . |
| 3 | Japan 's Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications says it is planning to build an administrative network that will link the local area networks used in government offices across the country , but the plan is still in its embryonic stages ; at the same time the ministry is studying a proposal for a fibre to the home project that plans to get Japanese households connected up by 2015 ; total infrastructure costs are estimated at about $256,000m . |
| 4 | NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data . |
| 5 | A Sunday Life poll has revealed blanket opposition to the scheme which could spell closure for scores of rural post offices across the province . |
| 6 | Despite his withdrawal , Perot had spent some $500,000 per month maintaining a skeleton campaign structure which included 64 offices across the country , and his supporters had filed petitions ensuring that his name had been included on the ballot in every state . |
| 7 | Buried treasure : in a happy mix of old and new , the Eagle Warehouse 's 19th-century facade — complete with sandstone eagle — is cocooned inside the modern glass of the Eagle Building The latter provide splendid views along one of Glasgow 's principal office streets and over the rooftops of BP 's offices across the street . |
| 8 | Typical sail dimensions to lift up to one kilo ( 2.21b ) would be a span or width across the mainspar of 125cm ( 49in ) and a depth of 85cm ( 33in ) so that the triangle is an included angle of 73 degrees approximately at the apex ; however , this is not critical . |
| 9 | Their voices across the water were dreamlike . |
| 10 | At a given signal the egg is passed by sleight-of-hand to one of the members of the triad , who endeavours to move it by bodily force across the white lines of winter … |
| 11 | In desperation he attempted at dawn on the 27th to throw a force across the Meuse at Samogneux , but the attackers were caught up on wire entanglements hidden beneath the flooded river . |
| 12 | These findings are consistent with a model involving Na + dependent HCO 3 - accumulation by the cell across the basolateral membrane and HCO 3 - exit across the apical membrane via Cl - /HCO 3 - exchange , the accumulated Cl - recycling via apical membrane Cl - channels . |
| 13 | She sat down beside him , instinctively putting her arm out to support him , but he jerked forward with a sharp gasp , and she saw the brown lines of dried blood across the back of his shirt . |
| 14 | She saw the blood across the grey white of the man 's shirt . |
| 15 | WHEN HE saw his hands in the light he flinched , and held them away from him , to avoid letting them touch any other part of his person or habit , for the right was engrained with drying blood across the palm and between the fingers , and the fingers of the left were dabbled at the tips , as if they had felt at stained clothing . |
| 16 | When he looked at his hand there was a bright red weal across the palm … he held his hand under the cold tap . |
| 17 | Then he threw his rake down , took two paces across the field , and spoke into his mother 's face . |
| 18 | She put her mouth over it , licking , sucking , dribbling , both of us unaware by now of the child sleeping three or four paces across the half-dark room . |
| 19 | She followed Edgar a few paces across the room . |
| 20 | Julie , meantime , took a couple of paces across the gallery towards a group of world leaders , past and present , gathered around a desk . |
| 21 | She took a couple of paces across the room , thinking hard . |
| 22 | They stretched their ears across the room to hear the tut-tuts , mutterings , to decode the sighs and silences which surrounded them . |
| 23 | ‘ The newsagent across the road arrived with a huge pile of Mirrors at eight o'clock and he 'd sold out by 10 . |
| 24 | Take an evening walk after dark on any clear night and you are likely to see one or more meteors , short streaks of light shooting across the sky . |
| 25 | If the British people had voted on Thursday for a Labour government , they would have run counter to the swing away from socialist prescriptions across the whole of the rest of Europe ; more , they would have signalled the rejection of everything that has been so painfully achieved since 1979 in making Britain a competitive modern society founded upon the doctrine of personal responsibility and enterprise . |
| 26 | Isabel hurled the pile of blue velvet across the bed and snatched her old grey dress from Ellen 's slackened grasp . |
| 27 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 28 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 29 | They , along with their British colleagues and brothers across the Curtain , had thought only in terms of a swap . |
| 30 | Lil swirled her eyes across the table before tucking in . |