Example sentences of "across the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would trench the ground and dig in the cow dung which was kindly supplied by Mr Williams across the Meloch . |
| 2 | From the first top there is a breathtaking panorama back across the glen to the southern slopes of Ben Nevis and Aonach Beag , but perhaps more thrilling , across the corrie westwards to the goal of Sgurr a' Mhaim . |
| 3 | We had tried talking across the negotiating table and we had tried talking through the medium of Pat Lowry , the Chairman of ACAS . |
| 4 | analysed so as to determine its exact elements and how these are spread across the negotiating parties |
| 5 | Another difference is noted in the way union and management negotiators often move across the negotiating table : a chief union official one year , a management representative the next . |
| 6 | Rubber and PVC liners can be stretched across the excavation and weighted down with rocks or paving slabs . |
| 7 | Today they had become a real sun-trap and it was a relief to swop the white , rocky desert for the subdued greens and browns of heather and grass which sweep across The Allotment up towards Simon Fell , its flanks scarred by the pale slash of Ingleborough 's eastern approach track . |
| 8 | We get smoke from the steel works across the valley , but we know what that is and we 're not afraid of it . ’ |
| 9 | A young girl discovers that the old shepherd across the valley , her only friend , is passionately in love with her . |
| 10 | The reporter said the town 's new section was being put in the wrong place , in an area where tremors are likely again , instead of in a safer place across the valley . |
| 11 | The old Hall at Horningham , across the valley , had recently been demolished and rebuilt in this classical style in the early 1680s , and William Moore most probably employed the same builder . |
| 12 | Midford Castle is a celebration of that card , for it is built to the same shape , with two rounded leaves of the trefoil facing out across the valley over Cane Brook and Midford Brook , and the third out to the back . |
| 13 | Far across the valley the dark tree line cut sharp across a white snow ridge , the sky above it bluer than the summer sea . |
| 14 | Neeld 's mother and daughter lived in the Tower House until 1850 , when the lease of Kelston Park , the gracious Georgian house across the valley , expired and they moved there . |
| 15 | This is where the forces of the earth are exposed with a dramatic clarity and where billion-year old rocks , deposited at a time when seas extended right across the valley give the stark harshness of the area a startling and a rare and sometimes unexpected beauty at different times of the day . |
| 16 | Watchers on the Springburn Hill saw the shadows creep across the valley until the city lay at the bottom of a deep pit of shadow , dwarfed by a gargantuan wall of night that marched across the southern hills from Cathkin to the Gleniffer Braes . |
| 17 | LONGMIRE HOUSE , Applethwaite , lies across the valley . |
| 18 | But first , watching my time , I must run my hands over the edges of the blocks , must do a sun dance on top of one , pee from another , photograph the rest , and send thrilled gibberish to the lookout posts somehow built on to the sheer rock face across the valley . |
| 19 | An advantage of this slender branch byway , which runs at a higher level than the main road , is the splendid panorama it affords of the encircling hills : across the valley the distant double-topped Frostrow merges in the long whaleback skyline of Rise Hill ; at the head is Great Knoutberry Hill carrying the railway ; rising to the left are the lower slopes of Whernside , succeeded by Great Coum beyond the gap of Deepdale , and finally Middleton Fell closes the horizon . |
| 20 | At mid-height along its eastern flank is an easy terrace above a belt of limestone traversed by a cart track known as the Turbary Road ( turbary being a place where peat is dug ) , giving an exhilarating walk with open views across the valley of Kingsdale to Whernside ; there is much of interest to see along the route with three spectacular highlights . |
| 21 | Just up the hill from us is a small pig-raising factory which has just been built and , as the sun sets behind the hills of our old enemy Tuscany , across the valley , we can hear the squeals of feeding time and , we fear , of transport and slaughter time . |
| 22 | The skew-arch railway viaduct was built in 1862 to carry a branch line of the Border Counties Railway across the valley of the Kielder Burn . |
| 23 | The Monsal Dale Viaduct was built in 1862 to carry the Midland Railway across the valley of the River Wye , so that , as Ruskin put it , ‘ every fool in Buxton can be in Bakewell in half an hour ’ . |
| 24 | What is the detour index ( see page 24 ) for the valley roads ( i ) along the valley , and ( ii ) across the valley at bottom right on map E ? |
| 25 | The fog had thickened , so that the enemy ranks now lay concealed by the screen of mist across the valley . |
| 26 | Yanto was pointing across the valley to the next hill , on top of which stood a tall ancient tower with turreted ramparts . |
| 27 | When I lived in southern France I used to sit out on the porch and watch the sun go down across the valley . |
| 28 | It was lovely on the hot summer nights listening to the sound of the various instruments being played at West Birk Hatt , drifting half a mile across the valley . |
| 29 | A band of cloud stretched low across the valley and it was raining slightly . |
| 30 | Soon it was wild and tumultuous , crashing in on itself , rolling and somersaulting into frothing white whirlpools and eddies , roaring out across the valley like the rumble of an interminable train . |