Example sentences of "[noun sg] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She saw the blood across the grey white of the man 's shirt . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When he looked at his hand there was a bright red weal across the palm … he held his hand under the cold tap . |
| 9 | ‘ The newsagent across the road arrived with a huge pile of Mirrors at eight o'clock and he 'd sold out by 10 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Isabel hurled the pile of blue velvet across the bed and snatched her old grey dress from Ellen 's slackened grasp . |
| 12 | To ensure proportionality and representation even for parties polling a small fraction of the vote across the country , a first count was made on a country-wide basis according to the so-called Hare-Niemeyer system ; afterwards a second constituency-by-constituency count was made . |
| 13 | The most difficult aspect to explain concerning this capacitative mechanism is how the calcium content of the ER determines the rate of calcium entry across the plasma membrane . |
| 14 | Once these results are available , comparisons will be made in the type and magnitude of the response to entry across the sample . |
| 15 | In that case the sale of woollen underwear across the counter was held to be a sale by description . |
| 16 | Divergence across the fault leads to subsidence and the formation of shallow , elongated troughs or sags , typically a few tens of metres across and a few hundred metres long , which , many contain a sag pond . |
| 17 | There were no windows in the hut , but the open doorway looked out over the mountainside across the valley to the emerald paddy fields and , far away to the east , the village . |
| 18 | This can be done by slicing off the peel across the top of the orange and using this flat end of the orange as a base . |
| 19 | Thérèse flicked a piece of muddy potato peel across the table . |
| 20 | In April 1905 , the wife of a lock-keeper in the canal near the Potomac River at Great Falls made a trip in her rowing boat across the river to the Virginia shore accompanied by her two dogs . |
| 21 | Navigating a boat across the ocean without instruments |
| 22 | Armenians were sheltering in Army barracks or were being evacuated from the city by boat across the Caspian Sea to Krasnovodsk in Turkmenia . |
| 23 | There is no road link with Laerdal , Kaupanger or Årdal and the only means of access for visitors is by hiring a small boat across the Lusterfjord from Solvorn . |
| 24 | At a great marsh Holly sailed with the other Daurog in a battered craft , entering the mist for days , helping to propel the ancient boat across the stinking , shrouded waters . |
| 25 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 26 | If he took the short cut across the beck , he would arrive there in a fraction of the time . |
| 27 | There is a short cut across the fields , zigzagging along the boundary banks . |
| 28 | And if they come out with that line : ‘ Oh but mum , everyone else 's mum lets them stay out until three in the morning/hitch a lift home from Glastonbury/take the short cut across the meadow at night/ride a bike without wearing an orange band … ’ then find out what other parents really think . |
| 29 | To reach the farmhouse they could follow the muddy and pit-marked cart track between the fields or take the short cut across the meadow to the little wooden gate at the side of the garden . |
| 30 | SHE took a short cut across the fairway from her £1,000-a-week rented house backing on to the Wentworth course in Surrey minutes before HE arrived to head a charity tournament . |