Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This was only one of the many directions in which the Yakut people spread from their homeland on the Lena . |
| 3 | As they neared the small shop they were nearly knocked to the ground by a young man fleeing from the same direction . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The prevalent and dominant winds may blow from the same direction or they may blow from almost opposite directions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The range in the latter direction seemed to be closer , and some of the highest peaks were capped with what looked like snow . |
| 11 | As we have seen , NAB itself may well move in the latter direction , and possibly the former also . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The spins of the two protons are measured along axes which for each proton on each occasion are selected at random from the possible choices unc Sometimes both protons have their spins measured in the same directions ( both o , say ) , sometimes they are in different directions ( one A one y , say ) . |
| 14 | This way , all the grain travels in the same direction and you do not store up shrinkage problems . |
| 15 | I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If competing ideas all point in the same direction , the politicians follow . |
| 18 | He had picked up the Bren gun and was gazing to the left of the wood and pointing the gun in the same direction . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The bar chart below shows the figures for unidirectional composites , in which the fibres are all aligned in the same direction . |
| 21 | His company was ‘ simply giving a push in the same direction . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The rear suspension deforms slightly on corners , allowing the rear wheels to steer up to 3° in the same direction as the front wheels . |
| 24 | The trend was not , however , all in the same direction . |
| 25 | Achieve the effect by having a number of loudspeakers at lowish level , preferably facing in the same direction . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Other great cities went in the same direction , without any questions being asked in central government , or by the opposition , about the electoral system . |
| 28 | ‘ The crystals always grow in the same direction and then they are shaped , ’ they say . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | To achieve a broadloom effect , lay the tiles with e arrows facing in the same direction . |