Example sentences of "be [verb] in the same direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | The OR Staff are quite rightly intent on seeking battle-winning performance ; the scientists and technologists enjoy and rise to the challenge ; and so both the principal groups of participants in equipment development are pushing in the same direction without an effective countervailing force . |
| 2 | Compared to the experience of hearing music ‘ live ’ even under unfavourable circumstances there is often very little sense that the musicians are pulling in the same direction , or that the music ebbs and flows in a natural , organic or above all believable way . |
| 3 | But these are not organised , structured animal societies — they are abnormal explosions of the locust population and they carry with them the seeds of their own downfall , as do modern human populations that are heading in the same direction . |
| 4 | ‘ Should you see a lady that you know , carrying a basket , and you are going in the same direction , offer to carry it for her . ’ |
| 5 | Other international companies are moving in the same direction and many , like ICI and BP , are firmly committed in principle to community regeneration . |
| 6 | They are none the less important , for other industries are moving in the same direction . |
| 7 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 8 | Moreover , on some occasions ( and the present scenario could well be one ) the economic and social pressures may be pushing in the same direction as educational forces . |
| 9 | With some plain fabrics , all drops will need to be cut in the same direction in order to match a pronounced woven design , or to ensure that fabrics with a high sheen catch the light evenly . |
| 10 | If a school is to be effective , the staff should all be working in the same direction , rather than pursuing conflicting goals . |
| 11 | They were seen to be working in the same direction and although it has not yet been possible to gauge the extent to which they help in the task of managing new education , their contribution to quality assurance should , by tradition , be valuable . |
| 12 | All the figures , some of them cloaked like witches , were facing in the same direction — away from Maisie and Robert . |
| 13 | Thus , although non-Muslim monotheists , like the Christians and the Jews , had not travelled as far along the road to truth as the Muslims , they were travelling in the same direction . |
| 14 | As the Zechstein progressed , the thickest part of each successive lens developed further into the basin and the facies belts were displaced in the same direction ( Figs. 3 and 4 ) . |
| 15 | It 's lying in the same direction as it was flying when it came down — north-east to south-west . |
| 16 | England prop Jeff Probyn revealed : ‘ Nobody in the side is shining so far , but everyone is pulling in the same direction . |
| 17 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 18 | This effect is best corrected by observing the exhaust smoke and trimming the model so that the tail boom is pointing in the same direction that the smoke is being blown . |
| 19 | There are other factors that recommend elimination , not least being the fact that everyone else is moving in the same direction ; so if British car makers want to sell their vehicles abroad , as surely they must , they must make car engines that run without lead . |
| 20 | Authors are worried that Britain is moving in the same direction as America , where a wide range of groups have mounted campaigns to ban books from schools and libraries because they do n't conform to their particular view of society . |
| 21 | Perhaps the SNP is moving in the same direction as its Welsh colleagues and is preparing to become a ‘ post nationalist party ’ that fully embraces the concept of Europe of the regions . |
| 22 | Well , yes , it 's very interesting , but I 'm not sure it 's working in the same direction as almost implied by your question of implying that there was almost too much . |
| 23 | Well it 's very interesting , but I 'm not sure it 's working in the same direction as almost implied by your question of implying that there was almost too much . |
| 24 | He was going in the same direction , empty . |
| 25 | The longstanding quota of 14 per cent on foreign imports was still in place , but Channel 4 was buying a quarter of its programmes from independent companies , and the BBC was moving in the same direction . |
| 26 | Whereas in much of eastern Europe , which was moving in the same direction , enserfment seems to have been the response of a very powerful nobility to a labour shortage ( made more acute in areas responding to the growing Western market for grain ) , in Russia the State clearly played a greater role . |