Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation . |
| 2 | Mr Smith spelt out the new direction the EC must take to make sure it would be a community for people and not just for business . |
| 3 | It insists that this is therefore the best guide to what they should do , that it points out the right direction for continuing and developing that practice . |
| 4 | If it does move L or R , turn in the same direction a maximum amount — at any one time — of 5° . |
| 5 | The only breach in the silence comes when Anya raps out the occasional direction — turn here , take the first left off the roundabout , and so forth . |