Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the opposite direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | An electron beam ( together with some negative ions ) is emitted in the opposite direction , attracted towards the collimating anode and passing through its central hole . |
| 2 | And then the telephone rang on the little table beside them , and as Miguel rolled away to reach for it Shelley hastily rolled in the opposite direction , and sat on the edge of the bed with her back to him , smoothing back her hair and getting her breath back . |
| 3 | Instinctively he had turned in the opposite direction from the Eldorado block . |
| 4 | So while Philip made tentative approaches to Elizabeth , families like the Raleighs , Grenvilles and Drakes put their shoulders to the door and pushed in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | When fired you got pushed in the opposite direction to that in which the jet was squirting out . |
| 6 | Quite apart from these omissions , the balance sheet appraisal ignores the economic impact of war on attitudes , expectations and the behaviour of institutions , which might well have operated in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | Mick Mills , replaced at Stoke by Alan Ball , has moved in the opposite direction , succeeding the caretaker manager by becoming Colchester coach . |
| 8 | Mick Mills , replaced at Stoke by Alan Ball , has moved in the opposite direction , succeeding the caretaker manager by becoming Colchester coach . |
| 9 | Then , as with fuller information he feels himself being moved in the opposite direction , he can say to himself ‘ Ah , now I see why I ought not to go ’ . |
| 10 | Above are Steve Restarick ( left ) and Wayne Hannigan , both ex-Wivenhoe who should be in action for Chelmsford while Christian McClean ( below , left ) has moved in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | Describing the treaty as " an event of global significance " , Gorbachev said that it would be " absurd " for the USA and the Soviet Union to reduce their nuclear arsenals to zero while nuclear-armed " renegades " moved in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | If circumambulation is performed in the opposite direction it is called ‘ Apradakshina ’ and has a malign influence resulting in misfortune or death . |
| 13 | This could , however , suggest too late a date for the work at Trier ( for it is very unlikely to have been after 325 ) , indeed , Parlasca ( 1975 , 77 ) thinks the mosaicist could have travelled in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | If this time period is greater than the input pulse width , the motor is driven in one direction whilst if it is less than the input pulse width , the motor is driven in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | Having seen Mr Jeffreys and diagnosed an acute and fairly painful dose of tonsillitis , she had intended going straight back to her cabin , instead of which , without even being aware of it , she had walked in the opposite direction . |
| 16 | It will be remembered that his other , earlier , intuitions about heterarchy pulled in the opposite direction , towards a monadology of separate partial sub-consciousnesses . |
| 17 | Her head was being pulled in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | Sometimes the chain has to be followed in the opposite direction . |
| 19 | If a car does approach you and you are threatened — scream as loud as you can and run in the opposite direction . |
| 20 | If the proportions were run in the opposite direction , the value of d would change ; exercise 8.2 asks you to confirm this . |
| 21 | Her body spun in the opposite direction to her gun as she fired , conserving angular momentum and throwing her aim completely off . |
| 22 | He grabbed her arm as she tried to run past him , but she shook it off and spun in the opposite direction . |
| 23 | The Kinnock conversion has gone in the opposite direction : away from ideology , towards ‘ realism ’ . |
| 24 | This country has so far gone in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | This back swathe is then cut in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | Measurements of remanent magnetism in a variety of volcanic rocks found on the continents had shown that some were magnetized in the opposite direction to the Earth 's present magnetic field . |
| 27 | Persistent Guardian readers swung strongly towards a more unilateralist position , while Telegraph and Times readers swung in the opposite direction . |
| 28 | The CAP , the largest component of the EC 's budget , by providing assistance on the basis of output and type of product , was not regionally directed and often worked in the opposite direction to regional policy . |
| 29 | Accessibility may improve when the tumour grows towards the oesophageal lumen , but matters become more complicated when growth is primarily directed in the opposite direction , towards the surface . |
| 30 | TNC is presented in the professional sequence but constructed in the opposite direction . |