Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the same direction " in BNC.
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| 31 | Compared to the experience of hearing music ‘ live ’ even under unfavourable circumstances there is often very little sense that the musicians are pulling in the same direction , or that the music ebbs and flows in a natural , organic or above all believable way . |
| 32 | England prop Jeff Probyn revealed : ‘ Nobody in the side is shining so far , but everyone is pulling in the same direction . |
| 33 | Acceleration can only fake gravity when the gravity is the same everywhere — equally strong and pulling in the same direction — like it is in this room , more or less . |
| 34 | All pulling in the same direction , you know . |
| 35 | the team leader at work who is concerned to ensure that members of the group are all pulling in the same direction towards greater productivity or an improved service . |
| 36 | This meant everyone pulling in the same direction , and I was convinced there was a win/win opportunity : for business objectives and for employees . |
| 37 | A true feeding roll is always performed in the same direction by each rolling bream . |
| 38 | The important rise in some countries in the proportion of families with two adults working acted in the same direction . |
| 39 | The spins of the two protons are measured along axes which for each proton on each occasion are selected at random from the possible choices unc Sometimes both protons have their spins measured in the same directions ( both o , say ) , sometimes they are in different directions ( one A one y , say ) . |
| 40 | Pointer starts to move L or R. Follow this by turning in the same direction a maximum amount — at any one time — of 5°. 6 . |
| 41 | to pass ahead of the foremost part of another moving motor vehicle , being a vehicle proceeding in the same direction wholly or partly within that area , or |
| 42 | ‘ to pass ahead of the foremost part of another moving motor vehicle , being a vehicle proceeding in the same direction wholly or partly within that area ’ This phrase means that the offending vehicle or part of it must pass ahead of a slower moving motor vehicle travelling in the same direction . |
| 43 | You must row in the same direction . |
| 44 | The prevalent and dominant winds may blow from the same direction or they may blow from almost opposite directions . |
| 45 | Achieve the effect by having a number of loudspeakers at lowish level , preferably facing in the same direction . |
| 46 | To achieve a broadloom effect , lay the tiles with e arrows facing in the same direction . |
| 47 | All the figures , some of them cloaked like witches , were facing in the same direction — away from Maisie and Robert . |
| 48 | Moreover the provisions of section 2(1) ( a ) also seem to point in the same direction . |
| 49 | Each layer or sheet , of which there may be 50 or 100 altogether , contains fibres of the protein collagen all pointing in the same direction within the plane of the layer , so that each sheet has a readily ( if you have an electron microscope ) discernible direction or polarity associated with it . |
| 50 | This effect is best corrected by observing the exhaust smoke and trimming the model so that the tail boom is pointing in the same direction that the smoke is being blown . |
| 51 | He wants everyone pointing in the same direction , and that means a common culture and a common status . |
| 52 | We have , then , student wittingness and intellectual maturity both pointing in the same direction . |
| 53 | ‘ So many separate bits of evidence all pointing in the same direction . |
| 54 | This way , all the grain travels in the same direction and you do not store up shrinkage problems . |
| 55 | This neat orderliness has been attacked by Le Page and Tabouret-Keller , who write ( 1985 : 198 ) : Such a model necessarily implies a linear sequence of varieties within " a language " , with the implication that all innovation starts from the same source and travels in the same direction ; and that innovation in phonology is paralleled by a similar sequence of innovation in different parts of the grammar and lexicon . |
| 56 | Other international companies are moving in the same direction and many , like ICI and BP , are firmly committed in principle to community regeneration . |
| 57 | There are other factors that recommend elimination , not least being the fact that everyone else is moving in the same direction ; so if British car makers want to sell their vehicles abroad , as surely they must , they must make car engines that run without lead . |
| 58 | It was still possible that this was thermonuclear fusion taking place in a mass of gas moving in the same direction as the current , but other measurements made this seem very unlikely . |
| 59 | The longstanding quota of 14 per cent on foreign imports was still in place , but Channel 4 was buying a quarter of its programmes from independent companies , and the BBC was moving in the same direction . |
| 60 | Whereas in much of eastern Europe , which was moving in the same direction , enserfment seems to have been the response of a very powerful nobility to a labour shortage ( made more acute in areas responding to the growing Western market for grain ) , in Russia the State clearly played a greater role . |