Example sentences of "[vb -s] across [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Howden , a small old market town but with a sense of village community , stands across the river Ouse four miles from Goole , off the M62 in North Humberside , the old East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 3 | Ariel starts across the clearing ; the trees and undergrowth , the tangle of roots and flowers have been razed , she must trudge across open ground to reach the sea , which is her aim ; she will walk out on the west side of the settlement 's boundaries , where the stockade has not yet been driven into the beach , past the rinsing and brewing pools which have already come to look neglected , the waterline slimy with weed , the flies hatching on the surface . |
| 4 | LONGMIRE HOUSE , Applethwaite , lies across the valley . |
| 5 | It lies across the studio floor in two giant sections . |
| 6 | It shrinks when it lies across the circle — along a diameter-compared to what it 's like when measuring round the circle . |
| 7 | ‘ Khan , I do n't know any more about what lies across the sea than anyone else , ’ Alexei said . |
| 8 | Broken glass lies across the carpet like sprinkled water . |
| 9 | Mart Kenney was a perfectionist , and his high standards set an example for scores of dance bands across the country . |
| 10 | The evening newscasts across the United States would use between thirty seconds and two minutes , according to taste . |
| 11 | The intensity of warfare and the weight of weapons used declines across the spectrum ; all the bands are blurred at the edges where they overlap ; and each has a number of gradations within it . |
| 12 | In the phasor diagram the applied phase voltage is equal to the vector sum of the induced voltage and the voltage drops across the resistance and inductance . |
| 13 | In Wensleydale , Bolton Castle looks across the broad valley to Penhill , which , legend has it , was once the haunt of a fierce giant , while the castle itself is the place where Mary Queen of Scots was placed under house arrest before she was taken to London to be executed . |
| 14 | If one looks across the channel , as some of us have , and sees the way in which the matter is approached there , it is humiliating to consider what has gone on in Britain over the past few years . |
| 15 | The basic rationality principle of their greater efficiency holds across the occupational system . |
| 16 | It scrapes across the polished cement of the verandah . |
| 17 | I 'm looking at the framed portraits of the stars : Anna Neagle , Liz Taylor , Dirk Bogarde , hand coloured like the photographs that Mr Fuller tints , an elderly artist who lives across the road from my grandparents . |
| 18 | Everyone who lives across the northern part of this land . |
| 19 | Mr Roberts , a senior planner with Rhuddlan Borough Council , lives across the street . |
| 20 | about it , I think it 's because Steven lives across the road , do you not |
| 21 | ‘ Citroen has done a lot of work in this area , starting back with the BX and this is now paying off with insurance quotes across the model range . ’ |
| 22 | The public softening of Turkey 's attitude towards the Kurds may , in the end , be less a change in policy than recognition of the difficulties in controlling what happens across the border in northern Iraq . |
| 23 | A band that rages across the rock firmament with such intensity that they can not be easily assimilated into the serried ranks of all the other homogenous contenders . |
| 24 | The doll shoots across the floor , into a pile of carved stone , leaving a dark streak in the dust . |
| 25 | Although industrial conflict occurs across a wide range of behaviour , there can be little doubt of the massive amount of attention focused on one of its forms : strikes . |
| 26 | Within the intestinal mucosa , expression of T cell mediated immunity to gliadin in the gut occurs across a spectrum of histological and functional abnormalities . |
| 27 | If , however , faulting occurs across a gullied terrain the resulting offsetting of truncated gullies produces what are known as shutter ridges ( Fig. 3.35 ) . |
| 28 | Disadvantages are the high pressure drop which occurs across the catalyst , although modern designs are said to have reduced this , and poisoning of the catalyst due to heavy metals such as lead , arsenic , zinc etc. and phosphorus compounds , which reduces the effectiveness of the catalyst and makes its useful service life , in any particular application , difficult to predict . |
| 29 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 30 | On this interpretation SIB Core Rule 36 , which was discussed earlier , modifies the attribution of knowledge rule and , where no information passes across a Chinese wall , authorises the withholding of information which is on the other side of the wall . |