Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case against the defendant was indeed a strong one and for that reason their Lordships would not be prepared simply to recommend that an acquittal be ordered , but they do not feel able to say that the jury would inevitably have convicted , if the defence had been furnished in advance with the three statements in question and if the jury had received the accepted direction on evidence as to character and guidance from the trial judge on the problem , whatever it was , indicated when they first returned to court . |
| 2 | On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence . |
| 3 | The dilemma which faced them with regard to Artai was complex — even given the clear direction of the Yasa — and no one who was in possession of all the facts could be blamed for unwillingness to condemn the course which had been decided upon . |
| 4 | They had made enquiries of someone in the village , Melchbourne , but were given the wrong directions , through ignorance or malice . |
| 5 | Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree . |
| 6 | The arrow has missed the intended direction completely . |
| 7 | In contrast , cells in MT only responded when the perceived direction of movement of the chevron matched the preferred direction assessed with simple stimuli . |
| 8 | The CDP had welcomed the broad direction in which the CNAA 's discussions had been going in 1975 , but liked little or nothing in the Partnership in Validation document . |
| 9 | Having suggested the predominant direction in which the movement has gone , i.e towards informalisation , Wouters sets out to explain it . |