Example sentences of "points [prep] the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously many things might muddy the correlation between social structure and prohibited partners , but one piece of existing evidence points in the right direction . |
| 2 | The introduction of a local income tax therefore requires a major reform to income tax and one that points in the opposite direction to the recent individualisation of tax — with separate assessment for husbands and wives . |
| 3 | Their occurrence with other prestigious grave goods in the burials of royal personages in ancient China points in the same direction . |
| 4 | The extensive use of lead during the Cycladic Early Bronze Age points in the same direction for the Aegean . |
| 5 | Evidence which also points in the same direction has come not from critics but from within the Kandel group itself . |
| 6 | Turn the rim of the compass round carefully until the North marking points in the same direction as the needle . |
| 7 | Christopher Feake [ q.v. ] described her as a gentlewoman , and her fluent and confident style points in the same direction . |
| 8 | Such measures of absences from parish registers are the crudest of indicators , but other evidence points in the same direction . |