Example sentences of "to move [prep] the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten days before , Italians had voted to move in the other direction by scrapping the harshest measures of their drug laws . |
| 2 | But they may need to bear in mind the wish of some of their key workers to move in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | And yet , at the same time , central government has imposed the National Curriculum on the education system which seems to move in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | Whether this clamour is loud enough to bring about so fundamental a change in the EEC at the very time when Community institutions wish to move in the opposite direction is a question which needs now to be addressed . |
| 5 | This paper is a deliberate attempt to move in the opposite direction — to explore the ability of subjects to tackle rather complex decision-problems . |
| 6 | To do this requires managers , consultants , and juniors to move in the same direction . |
| 7 | But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move . |
| 8 | This can be reduced by diversifying , in particular to achieve a mix of assets whose values would not all be expected to move in the same direction at once . |