Example sentences of "direction [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perceiving a need for authority and direction if the exercise was to have credibility , the Deputy Head ( Curriculum Development ) took the lead in proposing sample questions as a ‘ cock-shy ’ for discussion . |
| 3 | Although the uncertainty helped Saatchi shares yesterday , it is just as likely to cause movements in the other direction until the picture becomes clearer . |
| 4 | The practice stroke need not involve any thought of direction because the aim has previously been established . |
| 5 | Brenda 's daddy , who had a van , always had to take his produce to a railway station in a different direction because the van was just too high for the bridge . |
| 6 | Shortening line ‘ C ’ will make the kite sensitive in direction because the moment arm is reduced and your own arm movements will have greater effect . |
| 7 | He went on to experiment with how far a branch could be extended in any one direction before the tree tipped over . |
| 8 | All of the planets circle around the Sun elliptically in the same direction as the Sun itself rotates . |
| 9 | Normally , one is not able to see stars in the sky that are in almost the same direction as the sun . |
| 10 | Von Frisch trained a scout bee to come to a source , and then placed out new sources at equal distances from the hive , but only one at the same direction as the original . |
| 11 | This is usually — but not always — in the same direction as the tail rotor command . |
| 12 | Even with a perfectly judged autorotation , there may still be some tendency for the model to swing round in the same direction as the blade rotation . |
| 13 | He saw the propeller contact something and then appear to rotate in the opposite direction as the engine stopped . |
| 14 | The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The ‘ movement ’ seemed to lack organisation or clear direction as the end of the year drew close . |
| 17 | The term used to describe the course of the board when sailing in the same direction as the wind . |
| 18 | The moon moves in the same direction as the Earth 's rotation , slightly extending the interval between high tides to 12.4 hours . |
| 19 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 20 | Turn the rim of the compass round carefully until the North marking points in the same direction as the needle . |
| 21 | ‘ did proceed across ( or along ) the carriageway ’ This point means that the pedestrian tried or succeeded in walking across the carriageway i.e. from footpath to footpath or along the carriageway in the same direction as the traffic flow . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the lift generated will act in a diametrically opposite direction when the rotation of the cylinder is reversed . |