Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an early church , dating from the ninth-century , which was rebuilt under the direction of San Carlo Borromeo . |
| 2 | ‘ I was getting a bit discouraged with the direction of the people I was working with on ‘ Black Sheets Of Rain' , ’ confides Bob . |
| 3 | Adjacent points are then converted to vectors resolved into the directions shown in Fig 1.2iii . |
| 4 | Starting from the pole the local vector is carried along the direction it points ( a line of longitude ) to the equator ( A ) . |
| 5 | From the angle at which the bullet had penetrated the keg it had to have come from the direction of the shed . |
| 6 | Robert , Herluin , Hugh and the stranger departed in the direction of the abbot 's lodging , where Radulfus had already come out to greet them . |
| 7 | A strange object or sound will result in the ears being fully pricked in the direction of the stimulus , in order to pick up any relevant sounds . |
| 8 | The trees shook , even the ground beneath me shook , as I suddenly realised that a salvo of heavy shells was passing over at tree height , and everyone — including the prisoners — scattered in the direction of the dug-outs ; the salvo hit the ground a short distance away with an almighty roar , the explosions throwing debris over a wide area . |
| 9 | Meredith waved goodbye and watched her set off back the way they had come in the direction of Pook 's stables . |
| 10 | The LTE objected to the direction on the ground that it failed to have regard to the LTE 's financial duty under section 7(3) to break even so far as is practicable . |
| 11 | This should then be considered at the directions stage . |
| 12 | The sign of M depends on the convention adopted for the direction of currents in the two loops . |
| 13 | John Zabriskie , who originally found that the blood toxin responsible for scarlet fever is made under the direction of a bacteriophage , is also a member of the team which has made the toxic-shock discovery . |
| 14 | Bowran worked with Thorpe for a year , but would probably have stayed longer had Thorpe not moved into the direction of T.V. commercials . |
| 15 | This film , written under the direction of Dave Trott , will not get many showings . |
| 16 | The order , written under the direction of White House counsel Boyden Gray , was to have been part of a " signing statement " attached to the bill . |
| 17 | Even while Dick was lowering Martin to the ground , he had his head turned in the direction of the dark blur standing out against the night and it was only a matter of seconds before he raised himself and his gun towards it . |
| 18 | From now on the head is generally turned in the direction of the firm foot . |
| 19 | ‘ But it is not fair that your remorse should be turned in the direction of seeking someone else to blame . ’ |
| 20 | Any party to the proceedings and any person named in the direction may apply for variation ( s38(8) ( b ) and FPCR , r2(1) ) . |
| 21 | The constable was soon joined by his colleagues and between them they obtained detailed descriptions of the man who had dashed from the direction of the bakery . |
| 22 | He flung both arms out , the one with the gun aloft , and bowed in the direction of his two companions . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the climate of public opinion has moved in the direction of making contraception available , in spite of legislation , which varies from country to country , aiming to restrict various aspects of the practice . |
| 24 | Inevitably we are moved in the direction of using proxies which can not properly be validated . |
| 25 | And then there was a warning flare and Nuadu 's eyes moved in the direction of the shadowed corners . |
| 26 | Worse still , from a Gaullist perspective , the Potsdam conference moved in the direction of a centralized administration for Germany . |
| 27 | The policeman either knew his way around or had been briefed , because he had already moved in the direction of the workrooms , followed by an angry Ted Tipper muttering about the bloody police . |
| 28 | History also shows that this course was normally ineffective and that disorder only diminished when movement was made in the direction of the reforms which were demanded . |
| 29 | All strokes should be made in the direction of the heart , pushing blood towards it . |
| 30 | In music of a definitely pictorial kind such as this , every effort must be made in the direction of realism , provided that no violence is done to the musical outline of the original . |