Example sentences of "[prep] across the " in BNC.

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1 They too , spoke enthusiastically about , for example , the opportunities offered by The Machine Gunners for emotional empathy with the world of the child versus the world of the adult ; the emotional pleasure pupils frequently found in empathizing with Billy 's relationship with the hawk , and the themes and topics raised by Kes ; the complex nature of the link between humans and animals offered as a theme in The Red Pony ; the thematic possibilities of the Irish location of Across the Barricades together with its handling of prejudice ; and the understanding of allegory and its special features which might be well illustrated by a reading of Animal Farm .
2 Equivalently , The identity of the marginal member clearly depends on the distribution of across the sector .
3 Erm but the more general training er sort of across the board that came up for staff in general was certain things that are , are bound to happen for example on course training will happen .
4 This is something I think there will be agreement with across the board .
5 The conference was attended by 300 church youth leaders and school workers from across the UK .
6 Volunteer Manager , Chris Catlin , says , ‘ We have traditionally recruited volunteers from across the denominations including Anglican , Methodist , Baptist , Catholic and House Churches .
7 It draws its membership from across the spectrum of religious and non-religious groupings , though they are generally middle-class and mostly committed Christians .
8 She called out to me from across the room .
9 To weld the subjective with the objective , my personal anthropology includes material culled from various observational and ranked positions within the institution of policing and from across the years .
10 Last night the Giants , their neighbours from across the San Francisco Bay , sealed the National League championship series against the Chicago Cubs , winning 3-2 to complete a 4-1 victory and take their first pennant for 27 years .
11 Political leaders from across the assembly had resolved earlier in the week that an apparent lacuna in the rulebook which gave the neo-fascists the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship of the delegations should be filled so that the pair could be voted out of their posts .
12 At least the German infantry wo n't be attacking us from across the field in front of our positions , as long as this barrage keeps up .
13 She was buoyed up suddenly on the wave of amazement and admiration that she could feel enveloping her from across the whole room .
14 Such products are known by the general term ultramarinos , ‘ from across the ocean ’ , and to emphasise that Mariana herself is also an ultramarina , she is often accompanied in Gironella 's tableaux by tins of sardines .
15 the phone rang constantly as various relatives called from across the G.D.R .
16 Hanging on the wall ( behind the lemons ) is a lethal-looking old American corn-drying rack Top The farmhouse seen from across the fields Above Graeme and Sam Fifield-Hall
17 Trinidad 's middle class , thinned by emigration , is small ; most of its members are civil servants , recruited from across the country 's racial spectrum .
18 From this high moral ground the army had expected to challenge the record of human-rights abuses during its 17 years in power that has been compiled by a ‘ commission for truth and reconciliation ’ made up of seven lawyers from across the political spectrum .
19 While many of these bodies were underpinned by Labour and working-class support it should be recognized that they attracted support from across the social and political spectrum .
20 Here were swords and rapiers hanging from sashes on panelled walls , delicate figurines set on marble pedestals , statues from across the far China seas , carved elephants and lions from Africa , Javanese dancing girls with jointed limbs , fierce ceremonial masks from the mountains of Indonesia .
21 Whatever lies Buddie chose to tell about it , she and Frankie would tell everyone the truth : that it came in a big parcel from across the sea in America .
22 There has been a rising chorus of opposition to the governing parties from across the political spectrum .
23 Using clients referred from across the city , they were assigned to either ICT or GCT and followed up at one , two , three , and six months .
24 Abroad , Boerhaave at Leyden , the merchants George Clifford at Amsterdam and Daniel Gould at Leghorn wanted copies and two names came from across the Atlantic : the Governor of South Carolina , H. E. James Johnson and a Mr John James of Boston .
25 London is a magnet to visitors and business from across the world .
26 The threat emanates from an onslaught of ‘ mass culture ’ from across the Atlantic .
27 ‘ It will probably clear itself before long , ’ Pet commented from across the kitchen .
28 They were both thinking about it when they were hailed from across the street .
29 There was also the background chorus of opposition from across the Bristol Channel .
30 From across the square the Romanesque lines of the church are masked , not only by later work that war in the Baroque style , but also by the adjacent multi-floor modern buildings and the traffic lights , the latter set in such a position that no useful photograph can be taken that does not include them .
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