Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] across [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main body of these superb watercolours is of more recent vintage and runs the whole gamut of the seasons it is refreshing to come across a trio of such shivery snowscapes as Deep Snow , Upleatham ( 28 ) , Road into Guisborough ( 78 ) and Tocketts Farm in Snow Guisborough ( 22 ) . |
| 2 | Even today it is possible to come across a secondary school without any library , in the sense of a collection housed in a room set aside entirely for that purpose ; some of these libraryless schools are in the private sector , and eager parents pay heavily for the " privilege " . |
| 3 | The freak wave broke top to bottom across the entire length of the Bay . |
| 4 | Not long after the nomes moved into the quarry a fox was surprised and delighted to come across a couple of unwary berry-gatherers , which it ate . |
| 5 | Then , too , the forger will not find it easy to come across the right paper . |
| 6 | It was impossible to walk across the top and ignore the great panorama of London , even if its lights were obscured by the rain , even if the downpour was steadily soaking you . |
| 7 | It is possible to walk across the sea bed of that time , 400 million years ago . |
| 8 | Once you 're up and going , it 's possible to sail across the bay to a little chapel , or round the local island . |
| 9 | Here it will be less likely to pull across the pavement into the road . |
| 10 | This is a village of wide gabled houses , every one with window boxes full of colourful flowers ; of streets where you are more likely to come across a lumbering hay cart in no hurry at all , rather than an impatient motorist blasting his horn at everything in his way , and of friendly locals . |
| 11 | The amateur collector is most likely to come across the cycad foliage , with its characteristic narrow central rib and flat leaflets . |
| 12 | Turn to a risk-taking , entrepreneurial company and you are likely to come across the converse of the structure theme : |
| 13 | He seems thrilled to stumble across the notion that war has a technological impetus of its own ; others will recognise in it the familiar railway-timetable explanation of why the first world war proved so unstoppably disastrous . |
| 14 | This procedure will achieve temporary relief only since collateral veins are likely to develop across the anastomosis within a few months , and will ultimately bleed . |
| 15 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 16 | We turned over the Bundesliga championships , and then were unlucky to come across an inspired Rangers side , who , but for the odd-bribe or two could have gone all the way . |
| 17 | It 's very relaxing to walk across the grass and get away from cars and buildings . |
| 18 | Drivers are being given the chance to find out what it feels like to skid across an icy road into the side of a building — without risk of injury . |
| 19 | Some people , described by the survey as ‘ flirtatious ’ , are happy to flip across the radio dial , alternating between pop music and the appealing snippets played by Classic FM . |
| 20 | The body bold to come across the clearings and at last the the fox is really there . |
| 21 | We are very unlikely to come across a headline telling us that a member of the Anglican Church has killed himself ( unless , perhaps , it is a vicar ) — in fact , the Anglican 's religious affiliation is one of the last things likely to be mentioned in a report . |
| 22 | In such discourses , what can be specified about the sender is often justifiably taken for granted , because the student has experience of these discourse types in his or her own language : in the modern world we are unlikely to come across a student who does not have some idea of the nature of news or fiction , and the sort of relationship entered into with the senders . |
| 23 | I would n't be able to walk across the room otherwise . |
| 24 | With her new hairstyle , as well as make-up , perfume and high-heeled shoes , she felt more confident about herself in the outfit today , and when , just before five o'clock , she found Tom in a lounge-room that was festooned with Christmas reds and greens , she was able to walk across the room to him , confident and smiling . |
| 25 | It 's nice to be able to walk across the road but I find that people are complaining because they 're not able to park . |
| 26 | Not least when the thin one says that this is an ‘ anti-politics ’ tune : ‘ Songs are too romantic to give across a political view , like . |
| 27 | He should run off side once and if he gets caught , he should be able to run across the line and get to . |
| 28 | But we could n't respond as our chains were too short to stretch across the room . |
| 29 | The light from that window would n't be able to get across the room . |
| 30 | Pound and Rebka were able to scan across the very narrow line profile by varying the source velocity and in this way achieved a large gain in sensitivity for locating the line centre . |