Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we either are going in the direction this morning , or rather I think you 're being pressed to go in the direction of seeking to identify in due course , what is the preferred general location , and this undoubtedly is something you can hang your hat on . |
| 2 | Furthermore , since " the common unaided senses of man are not equal to the realisation of the world " , education should provide the means by which the " dull superficial sight of the multitude " can be " illuminated and helped to penetrate in the direction of reality " . |
| 3 | Cells in Vl , in contrast , always responded according to the direction of movement of the component gratings . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the climate of public opinion has moved in the direction of making contraception available , in spite of legislation , which varies from country to country , aiming to restrict various aspects of the practice . |
| 5 | If the Scatter dice is an arrow the Goblin has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 or 10″ from his aiming point as shown by the Artillery dice . |
| 6 | If the Scatter dice is an arrow the stone has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 or 10″ away from the aiming point as shown on the Artillery dice . |
| 7 | If the scatter dice is an arrow the shell has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , or 10″ away from the aiming point as shown by the artillery dice . |
| 8 | If the scatter dice is an arrow the shell has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , or 10″ away from the aiming point as shown by the artillery dice . |
| 9 | A Mrs Dorothy Shepherd described a middle-aged man in a blue suit who had come running from the direction of Alfred Oliver 's shop . |
| 10 | And he concludes , ‘ of all the warnings that the inner city has to offer for the direction British society is taking , this is perhaps the most sinister ’ . |
| 11 | They are , in brief , hard-working and somewhat stressed ; feel dissatisfied with the job they are doing ( or at least bits of it ) ; confused about what they should be doing but wanting to change in the direction of greater impact and relevance of what they do ; have no clear idea how to go about it ; do not feel optimistic about things getting better ; are worried about the amount of emotional energy the job takes up ; and mostly do the best they can , try not to think about it all too much , and hang on till the holidays . |
| 12 | The farmer failed to comply with the direction and , when fined , challenged its validity alleging that the executive officer had no power to issue it . |
| 13 | Where the child does not reside in the area of a local authority it will be the authority in whose area any circumstances arose leading to the direction ( s37(5) ( b ) ) . |
| 14 | Not until he was dead did I dare to go in the direction I wanted . |
| 15 | They both turned to stare in the direction of the captain . |
| 16 | Certainly , during this period it is common to find English teachers expressing a sense of the futility , or at least extreme difficulty , of attempting to influence in the direction of submission to great works of literature , students socialized into a culture of " affluence " . |
| 17 | But she refused , and began to walk in the direction of Trantridge . |
| 18 | He turned away from her and began to walk in the direction of the house , and after a moment 's hesitation she followed . |
| 19 | If the exclusion is for a fixed period which would bring the aggregate exclusion in any term to more than five days or would involve the pupil missing a public examination , the governors or LEA may order the reinstatement of the pupil and the head teacher would be bound to comply with the direction . |
| 20 | People began moving in the direction of the recreation ground where the final part of the day 's proceedings were to take place . |
| 21 | She began to run in the direction of Coton . |
| 22 | By indulging in such policies , Professor Beer has contended , government was beginning to move in the direction of a managed economy . |
| 23 | But it is interesting that in the 1980s even some of those that did n't plant churches began to move in the direction of doing so . |
| 24 | It was not until well after the war began that Iraq started to diversify in the direction of France , with the Mirage and Super Etendard , both capable of delivering the much-discussed Exocet air/surface ( AS ) missile . |
| 25 | More pressure would have to be applied in that area , before the newspapers started to look in the direction of the National Socialists . |
| 26 | Tears jumped into Evelyn 's eyes and she started to hurry in the direction of the girls ' barracks , ignoring the missiles which caught her on the back and arms or dropped uselessly on either side . |
| 27 | In 1987 , employment minister Kenneth Clarke still felt compelled to genuflect in the direction of ‘ our target of full employment ’ . |
| 28 | Moira Russell exclaimed when , not pausing in her stride , Leith banged in through her office door and kept going in the direction of the other door in the room . |
| 29 | Outside , a weather vane had been built in the lee of the vicarage next door , hardly an ideal position ; especially , when I discovered that its arrow pointer had been fixed to point in the direction of the ruined castle Blanchefort in the nearby mountains . |
| 30 | As Jakobson perceived long ago , those varieties that have supra-local functions and that tend to develop in the direction of koines display simpler phonemic systems than varieties that have purely local functions ( for an excellent discussion of simplification and complexity in a range of language situations , see Andersen , 1986 ) . |