Example sentences of "[verb] in the other direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | To find enough opponents of the left who were not too far committed in the other direction proved more difficult than we had imagined . |
| 2 | For in one follow-up meeting after another , in Belgrade and Madrid and finally Vienna , the human rights standards laid down at Helsinki were refined and tightened , while Romanian internal policies either stood still or moved in the other direction , that is to say downhill . |
| 3 | Translating in the other direction , from one of the above languages into English , will frequently involve loss of information along the dimensions in question . |
| 4 | Letts , of course , has moved in the other direction , into book publishing ( Blackwells ' Art & Poster Shop has seen a 500% increase in turnover of sales of their books this year , John Harvey-Jones please note ) , but it is well worth stocking Letts ' unbeatable range of the more traditional diaries for which it is so rightly famous . |
| 5 | Ironically , Gloucester look likely to be one of the sides they may well pass going in the other direction if the Tynesiders fulfil their three-year plan . |
| 6 | Ironically , Gloucester look likely to be one of the sides they may well pass going in the other direction if the Tynesiders fulfil their three-year plan . |
| 7 | Going in the other direction , say from English into Arabic , a translator should try to find some way of conveying the emphasis attached to a fronted predicator . |
| 8 | And going in the other direction , what do you have inside atoms ? |
| 9 | I do n't sort of think of it as art going in the other direction . |
| 10 | Moving in the other direction are Pheonix who are already well-established on the 2-ply scene with their Driphter jackets . |
| 11 | Now , I have n't totally had a chance to talk to Mr er , about that , but I would assume that means you er , and so it 's moving in the other direction if anything Mrs . |
| 12 | Yet it can happen that the momentum of the previous plan ( or previous chief executive ) is still pulling in one direction whilst the new plan ( or chief executive ) wants to go in the other direction . |
| 13 | The quality broadsheets were heavily skewed towards the wealthier social classes with more formal education , and the tabloids were skewed in the other direction . |
| 14 | A sense of perspective can also be undermined in the other direction — is not pride in performance sometimes dangerously close to obsession ? |
| 15 | This may also , it is held , operate in the other direction between girl , father and mother . |
| 16 | HMS Reading should have been coming in the other direction . |
| 17 | I think that people have got to turn in the other direction , and really want to be because I see in schools there are |
| 18 | Eventually Bligh had to turn round and run in the other direction , right round the earth , into the Pacific . |
| 19 | The tree was so big that , if it had fallen into the clearing , it would have flattened most of the gathering , but luckily it went in the other direction , toppling over the cliffside . |
| 20 | So two-thirds of the attackers moved round , as silently as they could , under the high perimeter walling , to the front of the establishment , whilst the remainder , leaving a small guard on the horses , went in the other direction , west-about , to the area of the broken-down curtain walls , nearer at hand . |
| 21 | For the mass of the population , indeed , the shift of interest arguably went in the other direction . |
| 22 | So Gloria and Maudie set off one way , towards West Ferry Road , while Ruth and Sarah went in the other direction . |
| 23 | Instead of following Thérèse down the road that led to the centre of the village , out again , and so , eventually , to the Martin farm , she went in the other direction . |
| 24 | But this year organisers have gone in the other direction , increasing the number of participants from 20 to 32 while shortening the length of the competition . |
| 25 | The facts point in the other direction . |
| 26 | Defries turned and looked in the other direction . |
| 27 | That frenzied period has passed and , if anything , the pendulum has swung in the other direction . |
| 28 | The ions , whose average progress is slower , move in the other direction . |
| 29 | Then the movement might be practised in the other direction , and the physiotherapist guides the hemiplegic hip and knee to move sideways with perfect control . |
| 30 | Hermione Lee pinpoints what I feel about this novel — that although its subject is depression and waiting for death , it does not feel gloomy because of its own formal delight , its interest in language , including the contrasted languages of the sophisticated ‘ writer ’ , the Professor , a historian of the European exploration of America , and Tom Outland , the indigenous traveller , discovering the primeval inhabitants , but teaching himself to read Virgil , and thus exploring in the other direction . |