Example sentences of "[verb] across [art] [adj] country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patterns of adaptation to city life vary across the different countries . |
| 2 | If they strained their eyes they could make out the clusters of houses and farmyards that were Suardal to the north , the pencil-thin bars of smoke already rising from them and the meagre herds moving across the open country like ants . |
| 3 | I have only seen one badger in the so-called ‘ wild ’ , caught in the beam of car headlights as it dashed across a small country road in Cornwall . |
| 4 | Now is it appropriate for central government to say this policy for unem for employment should apply across the whole country . |
| 5 | It can be limited across the whole country or across wide areas liable to suffer in the longer term ( for example , on all permeable soils such as on chalk , limestone , sand or sandstone ) . |
| 6 | ‘ We aim to do a lot of mobile meandering across the other countries of the Continent , further visits to the USA and of course to many other corners of this country , ’ said Roy . |
| 7 | Derek , who is a retired British Rail worker , took 18 days to travel across the vast country of one billion people . |