Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] across " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tempa Rossa field lies across both the Laurenzana and Torrente Sauro permits — LASMO is operator of Torrente Sauro and has a 20 per cent interest in Laurenzana . |
| 2 | 2 If a car drives across the sand , are the tracks left by the front wheels parallel ? |
| 3 | It belongs to a journalist absent in Eastern Europe , and is really just a large closet with a marble fireplace and a tiny bedroom and a bathroom where Candice sits across the bidet unembarrassed , much as she sits across his body . |
| 4 | While I am waiting on the platform , a railway employee shouts across the track that the 9.49 is cancelled , and that the next train will be at 10.19 . |
| 5 | about it , I think it 's because Steven lives across the road , do you not |
| 6 | Because this epigenetic rule occurs across cultures and is strong enough to defeat countervailing social pressures , it can reasonably be supposed to have a genetic basis . |
| 7 | But any law which is capable of setting limits across the whole range of publications must acknowledge the risks inherent in the very concept of limits . |
| 8 | Although crime occurs across all social classes , and is not just restricted to individuals from working-class backgrounds , official statistics show a clear link between social class and crime . |
| 9 | Every time the carriage passes across the needlebed , it reads the position of the N1 cam and the point cams . |
| 10 | The adoption of Tempo 30 speed limits across the entire area was the third element of environmental traffic management in the Buxtehude experimental area . |
| 11 | One car cuts across my lane . |
| 12 | Conditions are then demanding ; the wind blows across the estuary , so the immediate local area has an offshore wind and flat water , great for carve gybe and waterstart practice . |
| 13 | The opposition cuts across party boundaries , with Labour , Conservative and Liberal Democrat councillors all against the scheme . |
| 14 | The Tory recapture of Kincardine and Deeside flashes across the screen . |
| 15 | The cooling fan acts across the valves , thus aiding consistency of performance and also prolonging valve life . |
| 16 | A flinch of recognition flits across women 's eyes when it comes to men and money . |
| 17 | He recalls the car trips across Malta with Frankie firmly lodged in the passenger seat . |
| 18 | The distinction between grammar and lexis which we used in the last chapter cuts across this distinction between levels . |
| 19 | Elsewhere you will hear a Black Eyes Etude ( Op. 10 No. 5 ) wickedly tinted and inflected despite the most vertiginous brilliance and rapidly of reflex , and an Aeolian Harp ( Op. 25 No. 1 ) where the melody glides across a harmonic haze as if on air cushions . |
| 20 | The definition of what constitutes an institution varies across time and between different countries . |
| 21 | Here the River Neva is at its incredible widest , and the cold wind screams across the ice to the Peter and Paul fortress . |
| 22 | Lay the curtains out flat and measure up from the creased hemline to mark the finished length of the curtains ( top edge ) with a row of tacking stitches across the width of the curtain . |
| 23 | An insistent approach from a table close at hand ; a pause while some unheard throb shifts across the boat ; and then a softer reply from the other side . |
| 24 | The kitchen light skids across the lawn . |
| 25 | Wind slams across the tops . |
| 26 | The hare flees across a field in this way , and a number of different birds and fish have also been seen to use this technique . |
| 27 | This concentration extends across the River Thames to the south part of Essex and another is centred on the Ipswich area of Suffolk , partly the result of the rich burial at Sutton Hoo . |
| 28 | At one extreme the mighty Severn powers its way to the Bristol Channel , while at the other a Yorkshire brook gurgles across moorland . |
| 29 | In order to obtain a first idea of how space–time behaves across the horizon , consider an instrumented space probe falling along a radial path into a black hole . |
| 30 | I 'm standing here and a car stops across the road . |