Example sentences of "[verb] from the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | But belief may also be threatened from the opposite direction — by too little evidence that there is a God . |
| 2 | The glass will have been — bleached ’ to light from the bright direction . |
| 3 | As for the second , we have undermined its apparent logic by approaching from the opposite direction ; what is self-evident is that a person should prefer his reaction in fullest awareness , what would require proof is a claim that the awareness should be from all spatial and temporal but only one personal viewpoint . |
| 4 | Another orange goes bounding away up the corridor ahead of them , under the feet of one of Summerchild 's colleagues who is approaching from the opposite direction , coming back from lunch . |
| 5 | The following day they saw a column of vehicles approaching from the wrong direction to that from which Timpson should have appeared . |
| 6 | Less than two weeks later , British and American troops met sections of the Russian Army advancing from the other direction , and the end of the European war . |
| 7 | I had been walking towards a closed door , and by a sudden magic its impenetrable wood became glass , through which I saw myself coming from the other direction , the future . |
| 8 | Coming from the other direction , the internal auditor is said by some to have the right background in systems of control by may be , at least initially , too much focused on the , albeit increasingly onerous , financial and computer issues . |
| 9 | With her thoughts far away and her eyes fixed on the distant horizon , she did not notice where she was going — and as the tall , broad-shouldered man who was coming from the opposite direction was too deeply absorbed in his own reflections to be aware of his surroundings , there was a sudden abrupt collision . |
| 10 | In April 1986 our 29-year-old son met a lorry coming from the opposite direction with a very heavy utility trailer in tow . |
| 11 | But neither of them saw Captain Meredith coming from the opposite direction on his way to visit Lawyer Loveitt , and he failed to see them as he crossed into Frog Lane seconds after they had left it . |
| 12 | A police officer who was at the scene of the crash said , ‘ Mrs Gallagher was travelling on her own side when struck by a vehicle coming from the opposite direction on her side of the road . ’ |
| 13 | At any moment she will turn round and check that her friend is not coming from the opposite direction . |
| 14 | As Dr Haidar spoke a party of sweepers appeared in the lane , coming from the opposite direction to the marriage party . |
| 15 | Motorists would benefit in other ways too , eg. the difficulty of overtaking a cyclist on narrow streets when something is coming from the opposite direction . |
| 16 | Today 's newcomers are as likely as not to arrive from the opposite direction : businessmen seeking to escape the pollution , water shortages , high taxes and labour costs of southern California . |
| 17 | If the cutting edge digs in then stop immediately and cut from the other direction , or there may be danger of a piece splitting away . |
| 18 | But how could he come from the opposite direction ? |
| 19 | It soon went too fast for him and the village pastor who appeared from the other direction was nearly frightened to death ! |
| 20 | To ask about details before establishing the general context is to approach from the wrong direction . |