Example sentences of "[noun pl] across [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still owned by its employees , Meiko has broken into the American and Japanese supercomputer markets , and now has offices across the US and in Europe . |
| 2 | Intergraph is one of the world 's leading manufacturers of graphics workstations and computer aided design and manufacturing ( CADCAM ) systems , with offices across the globe and annual sales exceeding $1bn . |
| 3 | Japan 's Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications says it is planning to build an administrative network that will link the local area networks used in government offices across the country , but the plan is still in its embryonic stages ; at the same time the ministry is studying a proposal for a fibre to the home project that plans to get Japanese households connected up by 2015 ; total infrastructure costs are estimated at about $256,000m . |
| 4 | NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data . |
| 5 | A Sunday Life poll has revealed blanket opposition to the scheme which could spell closure for scores of rural post offices across the province . |
| 6 | Despite his withdrawal , Perot had spent some $500,000 per month maintaining a skeleton campaign structure which included 64 offices across the country , and his supporters had filed petitions ensuring that his name had been included on the ballot in every state . |
| 7 | Buried treasure : in a happy mix of old and new , the Eagle Warehouse 's 19th-century facade — complete with sandstone eagle — is cocooned inside the modern glass of the Eagle Building The latter provide splendid views along one of Glasgow 's principal office streets and over the rooftops of BP 's offices across the street . |
| 8 | Their voices across the water were dreamlike . |
| 9 | Then he threw his rake down , took two paces across the field , and spoke into his mother 's face . |
| 10 | She put her mouth over it , licking , sucking , dribbling , both of us unaware by now of the child sleeping three or four paces across the half-dark room . |
| 11 | She followed Edgar a few paces across the room . |
| 12 | Julie , meantime , took a couple of paces across the gallery towards a group of world leaders , past and present , gathered around a desk . |
| 13 | She took a couple of paces across the room , thinking hard . |
| 14 | They stretched their ears across the room to hear the tut-tuts , mutterings , to decode the sighs and silences which surrounded them . |
| 15 | If the British people had voted on Thursday for a Labour government , they would have run counter to the swing away from socialist prescriptions across the whole of the rest of Europe ; more , they would have signalled the rejection of everything that has been so painfully achieved since 1979 in making Britain a competitive modern society founded upon the doctrine of personal responsibility and enterprise . |
| 16 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 17 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 18 | They , along with their British colleagues and brothers across the Curtain , had thought only in terms of a swap . |
| 19 | Lil swirled her eyes across the table before tucking in . |
| 20 | It is quite lovely ; the views which are enjoyed by most of the main south-facing rooms take one 's eyes across the beautiful countryside way out into the distance to Blackmore Vale . |
| 21 | However , the patterns used in these studies were extremely coarse and could probably be discriminated by developing tricks like scanning the eyes across the stimuli and judging how much the brightness changes during the course of the scan . |
| 22 | He met Murtach 's eyes across the table , and the shape-shifter grinned like a gnome . |
| 23 | The tinder caught and glowed , the candle billowed , a small orb of yellow light between their two faces , and they were looking intently into each other 's eyes across the flame . |
| 24 | Time stood still as the two men locked eyes across the eerily moonlit space . |
| 25 | Fran sat down , keeping her eyes lowered so that she would n't have to meet Luke 's eyes across the table , but she could feel him watching her . |
| 26 | Neff built up the firm 's business in the USA not by dint of one overwhelming individual personality , as Roche had done for Heidrick and Struggles , but by exemplifying the success of the Spencer Stuart method of problem-solving in management crises across a range of corporate sectors . |
| 27 | But one day at the club when he trotted out this phrase during some heated discussion in the midst of a little group of members ( all of them persons of some consequence ) , Nicholas Stavrogin who was standing to one side alone and unnoticed , suddenly went up to Mr Gaganov and , taking him unexpectedly and firmly with two fingers by the nose , managed to drag him two or three steps across the room . |
| 28 | He had taken only a few steps across the playground when he was stopped by a rough command . |
| 29 | STEPS ACROSS THE LAWN |
| 30 | Mainly found in disk drives , where they control the positioning of the head on the surface of the disk , they are ideally suited to moving pens in precise steps across the bed of a plotter . |