Example sentences of "be [prep] the opposite " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sibling parents of parallel cousins are the same sex and the sibling parents of cross-cousins are of the opposite sex . |
| 2 | That women are of the opposite sex to Christ should then , she believes , be of no great moment . |
| 3 | Thus it is thought that the fact that some human beings are of the opposite sex to Christ is not of importance . |
| 4 | But in the past few years the trend has been in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | There had been a steady increase in the ethnic heterogeneity of most union republics between the wars ; since then , and particularly since the 1960s , the trend had been in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , current trends , especially with regard to unemployment , are in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | As a result , erm , prices wo n't be quite as volatile as they are in the opposite case , alright , when the world market , and virtually nobody , let's assume that virtually nobody uses the world market to trade in , they 've all got their own agricultural policies , right , just a few countries trade in the world market , it only takes erm , a , a sort of poor harvest , or a very good harvest in any one of these erm , er , sort of protected countries , in order to get rid of this output , they 'll put it on the world market . |
| 8 | It should always be with the opposite sex only ; yet novel reading girls exhaust their female magnetism without obtaining any compensating male magnetism , which of necessity deranges their entire sexual system . |
| 9 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 10 | Needles to be brought into holding position must always be at the opposite side to the carriage . |
| 11 | Puddephat 's rooms are on the opposite side of the quad from mine . |
| 12 | While we had been on the opposite bank a new barge had come upriver from the direction of Minya and had moored near the end of the Corniche . |
| 13 | They were in the opposite room . ’ |
| 14 | Another investigation , looking at the problem as it were from the opposite direction , compared adoptees selected for later estimates of their creativity and then examined incidences of mental illness . |
| 15 | We were at the opposite poles of humanity . |
| 16 | Of course , they were at the opposite ends of the price range . |
| 17 | Well you might find as he 's got a good , good disciplined school he 'll Unless of course he 's of the opposite |
| 18 | The fact that our partner is of the opposite sex automatically means we must familiarise ourselves with the general information on the basic differences . |
| 19 | But a bride is of the opposite status . |
| 20 | The second wave occurs at puberty when the young person looks for a sexual partner , and if there has been minimum conflict during the phallic phase this is of the opposite sex . |
| 21 | The castle dominates the city and one of the best views of its imposing mass is from the opposite bank of the River Vltava in the Old Town ( Staré Město ) either by day , or floodlit by night . |
| 22 | ( The bank is in the opposite direction to the newspaper shop . ) |
| 23 | Yet paradoxically , the reaction expected from a reader is in the opposite direction . |
| 24 | Excitation of phase C produces another anticlockwise step , so for continuous anticlockwise rotation the excitation sequence is : A , B , C , A , B , C , A. Similarly clockwise rotation can be produced using the excitation sequence : A , C , B , A , C , B , A. It is interesting to find that , in the motor illustrated , the rotor movement is in the opposite direction to the stepped rotation of the stator magnetic field ! |
| 25 | In Reconstruction , published in 1933 , Harold Macmillan wrote , ' ’ Planning ’ is forced upon us … not for idealistic reasons but because the old mechanism which served us when markets were expanding naturally and spontaneously is no longer adequate when the tendency is in the opposite direction' . |
| 26 | So often the push is in the opposite direction to doing research which does n't involve one in long-term contact with the schools , and this of course is one of the reasons why this type of research is n't so often done , but I hope to do some more work in classrooms , yes . |
| 27 | So often the push is in the opposite direction , to doing research which does n't involve one in long-term contact with the schools and this , of course , is one of the reasons why this type of research is n't so often done , but I hope to do some more work in classrooms , yes . |
| 28 | The honeypot of Inveraray lures the car-based tourist past as the main road is on the opposite side of the canal . |
| 29 | So the rules for moving the point cams are , firstly , only move the point cam when the carriage is on the opposite side and secondly , if you break rule one while the N1 cam is outside the point cams , move one of the point cams so that the N1 cam lies between the point cams and then read the cam positions . |
| 30 | Conversely , if the Part button nearest the knitting is out , or the Empty control is on the opposite side to the knitting , or the side lever nearest the knitting is back , the next row will knit . |