Example sentences of "[conj] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it is flying through the valleys of Norway in a landscape lit only by the dim glow of the snow-covered mountains , or across the almost solid darkness of Salisbury Plain , you ca n't beat flying with the owls and the bats . |
| 2 | It was so pitifully easy for the customers : the temptation so hard to resist , to pick up a bar or two of chocolate from the counter , a packet of tea from the shelf , even a bag of flour , as my aunt came from behind the counter , passed through to the kitchen , down the steps into the old still-room to draw vinegar from the cask , or paraffin from the tank ( its pump rattling up-down , up-down ) , or across the yard for corn or toppings , or up the back stairs for some item kept on the little landing ; so that the shop began to make small profit or none at all . |
| 3 | Popular inter-urban lines , as between Glasgow and Edinburgh or across the Pennines , have seen growth rates of up to 40 per cent . |
| 4 | The back of the villa , which overlooks a last section of the gardens , is by far the best façade , especially if viewed across an acre of grass , or across the delightful duck pond at the bottom of the slope below the house . |
| 5 | On the back or across the front of these photographs were signatures duplicated from the letters ; John Addington Symonds , Baron Corvo , Robbie Ross , for Boy with kindest regards from Reggie Turner . |
| 6 | There may be more significant consistencies to be traced across the corporate authorship of MTM in programmes like Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere ( 1982–8 ) , or across the individual authorship of Steve Bochco in Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law ( 1986- ) , than can be traced across hospital melodramas like St. Elsewhere and , say , Dr. Kildare ( 1961–6 ) . |
| 7 | When wood begins to fail in compression little lines of buckled fibres can just be seen running diagonally or across the grain but these are easily missed unless the surface is clean and you know what to look for . |
| 8 | All the bedrooms are en suite and have superb views of the sea or across the wild moorland . |
| 9 | Concession or legitimization can occur up , down or across the hierarchy . |
| 10 | Get there early — at least one hour before you expect to see the badgers — and do n't walk over the sett or across the entrances . |
| 11 | The faint glow on the skyline gave him some guidance , but apart from that , he could n't tell whether he was moving towards the shore , or across the bay , or just circling endlessly . |
| 12 | These primer pairs allowed for PCR not only of the AD1 sequence but across its junction with either flanking type III repeat or across the junction of both 5' and 3' flanking repeats . |
| 13 | Either aboard the ferry from Plymouth to Santander or across the Channel and down through France . |
| 14 | Whether viewed from the high road , or across the low fences and stone ditches and grassy banks of the surrounding farms , the ruin of Slains looks familiar . |
| 15 | Later , he showed her around and told her in detail the things that needed doing to the house , and she imagined her father here , sliding down the banisters or across the ballroom floor , and she felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her like the muffling fog . |
| 16 | The danger from the footpad , the silent assassin , was always present , here in his church or across the river . |
| 17 | Sometimes the bravest rats ran out onto the floor or across the tops of the pictures . |
| 18 | As I went for vigorous afternoon walks along the footpath by the half-frozen river or across the frosty fields and up the sheep-tracks on to the hills and the bare moors beyond . |
| 19 | They were paid by these , and by the pennies of helpless men and women who might be forced to cross half of a strange continent before even embarking on the Atlantic crossing : from central Europe to Le Havre , or across the North Sea and via the smoky Pennine valleys to Liverpool . |
| 20 | It emerged that across the very varied fleets the cost of asbestos removal would be £25,000 per vehicle , an investment producing no financial return . |
| 21 | We need a government that will help ensure that across the world we can look forward to peace and progress with stability . |
| 22 | As he gave his evidence for videotape , ‘ genial and twinkly , relaxed in the red eye of the TV camera ’ , as Newsweek described him , reporters noted that in an adjacent courtroom Stevie Wonder was appearing in a case about the authorship of a song , and that across the street another crew was filming an episode of Thirty Something . |
| 23 | The matter is complicated by the fact that across the social spectrum some families changed their surnames as often as their surcoats , and individuals had , in the course of their lives , sometimes as many as three or four surnames , any of which could be adopted quite haphazardly by their progeny . |
| 24 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 25 | Even more remarkable is the fact that across the personal computer platforms there are just a handful of players and products that are accepted . |
| 26 | Overwhelmingly the most important things is that these figures show that across the economy as a whole , er economic activity is on a path of steady but unspectacular growth . |
| 27 | While the potential difference across the resistance R is just , that across the capacitance C is . |
| 28 | These figures have always traditionally been very unreliable , but I 'm hoping that it also might indicate that across the country and also in Oxfordshire we are developing what we call out-reach services and the idea is for people to get in contact with drug users who probably do n't want a lot of the time to stop using drugs . |
| 29 | And they have applied two rather unique techniques to study this question ; it 's a technique that 's er , er rather unique to Oxford , it seems that across the country , most people have looked at this particular problem of reducing the fluid in the lung . |
| 30 | When I 've seen you play , you seem to regard the fretboard from a horizontal point of view , playing along the strings rather than across the fretboard … |