Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they neared the small shop they were nearly knocked to the ground by a young man fleeing from the same direction . |
| 2 | They can distinguish between two sounds which are only 18 inches apart at a distance of 60 feet ; they can separate with ease two sounds that are coming from the same direction , but at different distances ; and they can differentiate two sounds that have only a half-tone of difference between them . |
| 3 | She had approached the pool from the same direction as I had , and , evidently disturbed by me , had crossed the water and gone into the dense tree and scrub jungle on the right-hand side of the glade . |
| 4 | The prevalent and dominant winds may blow from the same direction or they may blow from almost opposite directions . |
| 5 | In order to observe a primordial black hole one would have to detect several gamma ray quanta coming from the same direction within a reasonable space of time , such as a week . |
| 6 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 7 | Finally , many of the issues in pragmatics have arisen historically from this particular vantage point , and to understand them one must at least at first approach from the same direction . |
| 8 | The range in the latter direction seemed to be closer , and some of the highest peaks were capped with what looked like snow . |
| 9 | As we have seen , NAB itself may well move in the latter direction , and possibly the former also . |
| 10 | This way , all the grain travels in the same direction and you do not store up shrinkage problems . |
| 11 | I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ . |
| 12 | Ron Todd , the general secretary of the transport workers ' union , said that today 's vote on the multilaterist nuclear defence policy would not yield the ‘ massive and overwhelming ’ majority predicted by right-wingers , and he warned that party leaders could not expect everybody to ‘ goose-step ’ in the same direction once the policy had been carried . |
| 13 | If competing ideas all point in the same direction , the politicians follow . |
| 14 | He had picked up the Bren gun and was gazing to the left of the wood and pointing the gun in the same direction . |
| 15 | Despite our finding that television news is biased , there is no doubt that it is less biased than the press , and that such bias as there is on television is in the same direction on both BBC and ITV . |
| 16 | The bar chart below shows the figures for unidirectional composites , in which the fibres are all aligned in the same direction . |
| 17 | His company was ‘ simply giving a push in the same direction . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The rear suspension deforms slightly on corners , allowing the rear wheels to steer up to 3° in the same direction as the front wheels . |
| 20 | The trend was not , however , all in the same direction . |
| 21 | Achieve the effect by having a number of loudspeakers at lowish level , preferably facing in the same direction . |
| 22 | Twelve hours later we pulled into Zaudinskiy , the junction of the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Siberian lines , and after fond farewells and toasts my comrades headed west — in the same direction as train after train loaded with tanks . |
| 23 | Other great cities went in the same direction , without any questions being asked in central government , or by the opposition , about the electoral system . |
| 24 | ‘ The crystals always grow in the same direction and then they are shaped , ’ they say . |
| 25 | Where we might have expected these to vary in the same direction as the specialist team 's , they in fact exhibit a different set of distinctions , particularly in the high rate of service provision and the trend towards maintaining cases as live . |
| 26 | To achieve a broadloom effect , lay the tiles with e arrows facing in the same direction . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If a school is to be effective , the staff should all be working in the same direction , rather than pursuing conflicting goals . |
| 29 | I will take an example where all the methods can be used , and where all point in the same direction , so that the answer is probably correct . |
| 30 | So in this case the different sources of evidence all point in the same direction , whether derived from a detailed consideration of the way the trilobite is constructed , or by analogy with living animals with similar adaptations , or from the evidence of the rocks or the distribution of the fossils . |