Example sentences of "across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference was attended by 300 church youth leaders and school workers from across the UK . |
| 2 | Volunteer Manager , Chris Catlin , says , ‘ We have traditionally recruited volunteers from across the denominations including Anglican , Methodist , Baptist , Catholic and House Churches . |
| 3 | Despite public perceptions , across the world 7 out of 10 infections are heterosexual . |
| 4 | However even when frontiers are closed fast to Amnesty , information still gets out — via refugees or victims who have fled in fear , ‘ friendly ’ foreigners or nationals inside the country , church , trade union and human rights organizations , journalists or travellers , or from letters smuggled across the border . |
| 5 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 6 | Chatterton is as much as anything the famous painting of his death in a Holborn attic done in the 1850s by Henry Wallis — with the poet lying across the bed in a kind of frozen entrechat . |
| 7 | When the British state began its policies of social interventionism from 1945 , it succeeded in fragmenting the local power base of unionism by centralizing the sources of welfare and making them at least in part available across the sectarian divide . |
| 8 | An example of the strength of this animus occurred in 1982–3 in the celebrated case of the Revd David Armstrong , censured by the elders of his congregation for entering the Roman catholic church across the road to offer its worshippers Christmas greetings , and eventually forced to leave his ministry ( Armstrong and Saunders 1985 ) . |
| 9 | As Buckley points out , it is also the rough who penetrate the virgin city — the British fleet , breaking the boom across the river to bring food supplies to the stricken protestants within and ensuring the city 's survival and the faithful people 's triumph . |
| 10 | This meant that couples who had married across the religious divide were not allowed to adopt at all . |
| 11 | It draws its membership from across the spectrum of religious and non-religious groupings , though they are generally middle-class and mostly committed Christians . |
| 12 | Its shadow passes across the glass . |
| 13 | Joy as sheet of old newspaper whirled across the road and wrapped itself round my leg . |
| 14 | Taj has 36 hotels in India already and plans to open a budget chain of properties across the country by 1992 . |
| 15 | This confidence survey is conducted among UK hotel general managers and is based on a sample of almost 100 drawn from different classes , sizes and styles of hotels geographically spread across the country . |
| 16 | So when the great lady detective drew a hair from her head and stuck it across the lock on the front door of Sir Vivien 's motor car , Constable Quince said nothing . |
| 17 | ’ Her husband gazed at her across the body . |
| 18 | In a miscellaneous pile of documents , I came across the following essay . |
| 19 | It was only after extensive reading through the writings of many authors that I came across the work which undoubtedly gave the author this particular inspiration . |
| 20 | Bouleversed , as they say across the Channel . |
| 21 | Across the table he could hear Mrs Locombe-Stableford talking to the doctor about someone 's gall-stones . |
| 22 | Partition led to the migration of ten million people across the newly established borders . |
| 23 | However , I was wasting my time — my gaze slid across the surface of the pages like marbles on a shiny table-top . |
| 24 | She called out to me from across the room . |
| 25 | The path flanking the lawn leads first down and then across the garden to help create a feeling of greater space . |
| 26 | Curiously enough , these charming blooms turn to face and follow the sun as it progresses across the sky , a phenomenon you will find frustrating if you have planted it in a north-facing border , since they will invariably turn their backs on you . |
| 27 | This indicates that instruction is failing to get across the vital aspects which could reduce the risk of accidents . |
| 28 | If the glider is facing across the wind with the into-wind wing held down , the wind will be blowing on to its top surface , producing an extra down-load . |
| 29 | Remember , if the height is marginal it may be safer to land across the field a little out of wind , rather than try and complete the turn with insufficient height . |
| 30 | Look carefully for single wires leading off the main lines and running across the fields to individual cottages . |