Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost everyone concerned with education is looking for the right direction to go , and there is much talk of leadership . |
| 2 | This inner life is projected as a theatre for the right direction of energy : the soul in temptation is ready to leap into pride , indeed the devil himself is seen as a leaper constantly alert to seize his chance to get hold of the direction of man 's life . |
| 3 | The Chivas and Glenlivet Division will be responsible for the strategic direction , business development and global marketing of Seagram 's Scotch whiskies and the international development of Canadian and American whiskies outside the US . |
| 4 | Unix SVR4 is currently specified by UI 's RoadMap as the foundation for the future direction of the Unix operating system . |
| 5 | Confusion reigns for the future direction of the industry in the absence of clear guidelines and leadership . |
| 6 | To that end this meeting will bring together the most prominent scholars in the field to set the agenda for the future direction of cultural studies . |
| 7 | IN his last letter to Ashcroft Noble , Edward tried to express his thanks to the dying man for the new direction he had given to his life : |
| 8 | As the general direction of O'Neill 's policies became clear , conservative Protestants began to organize against him . |
| 9 | Jo sees the theatre as the natural direction for her talent and has recently formed her own theatre company . |
| 10 | Cox sees the growth of modernity and pragmatism as the likely direction for the group , with the consequent and gradual dissolution of catholic nationalism . |
| 11 | Where they do not coincide the coastal orientation usually lies between the two directions , being nearer to the one which is dominant . |
| 12 | Work out the angle , in degrees , between the following directions . |
| 13 | And they may be torn three ways , between the practical direction they are getting in the school , the advice they are being given in college and by their teaching practice tutor , and their own developing sense of the kind of teacher they would or would not like to become . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it is necessary to introduce some significant qualifying remarks about the current direction of policies and procedures in many authorities . |
| 15 | ‘ Our task over the next few years is not just to be an effective Parliamentary opposition but to lead great national debates about the future direction of our country and to forge a new national consensus across a range of issues . ’ |
| 16 | It is important that there should be a wide public debate about the future direction the BBC should take . |
| 17 | The inquest into the Greenwich defeat was not to be a debate about the future direction of socialism in multi-cultural inner-city areas ; it was to be an appeal to homophobia . |
| 18 | The debate about the future direction of hard rock-climbing — longer stamina routes or short power climbs — continues . |
| 19 | Any utterance from the enigmatic McGuinness about the future direction of the IRA carries more weight than similar statements from Adams . |
| 20 | However , in none of the natural sciences did there seem to be serious uncertainty about the general direction in which knowledge was advancing , or the basic conceptual or methodological framework of its advance . |
| 21 | ‘ It is a watershed because there could be no clearer definition of the political direction in which Mr Montgomery wants to steer the Mirror Group . ’ |
| 22 | One of the critical directions supported by recent work on the Renaissance is to render these other histories more visible and to examine the means by which they were hidden . |
| 23 | The knowledge of the likelihood of such modifications and of the probable direction of the changes as suggested by the Hungarian data may be helpful in the explanation of variance found in the relationship among developed and , recently , also among developing countries . |
| 24 | If diagram is the right word , we hope that it is like a set of arrows , or avenues , pointing outwards in some of the many directions an artist interested in photography might explore . |
| 25 | This was only one of the many directions in which the Yakut people spread from their homeland on the Lena . |
| 26 | Thus Pirenne ( 1914 ) , in his study of the development of capitalism , distinguished its various stages in terms of the principal directions of economic activity and the social groups which took the leading role at each stage ; and many historical studies of elites have similarly concentrated attention upon the rise and decline of particular economic groups . |
| 27 | It will inform the recipient of the date , time and place of the first directions appointment or hearing , as appropriate . |
| 28 | Unisys customers , attending a bi-annual meeting of the Unisys Users ' Association in Amsterdam this month , were in favour of the new direction , but they feel it is time the company put its head above the parapet : ‘ Unisys has very good products , but they never tell anyone about them , ’ said one insurance company systems manager . |
| 29 | I want now to look more closely at how business operates and see if in that operation there are any lessons , ideas or strategies that might be the beginnings of the new direction for education . |
| 30 | But it is not just the current interest rate that affects people 's expectations of the future direction of interest rates . |