Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | When small samples are used to estimate population standard deviations , the results are biased in the direction of underestimation . |
| 2 | When small samples are used to estimate population standard deviations , the results are biased in the direction of underestimation . |
| 3 | Donor and acceptor compounds are differentiated by the direction of the electron transfer to or from the carbon layers . |
| 4 | Had anyone been looking in the direction of Miss Danziger they would have observed a faint smile gathering at the corners of her mouth and fading as quickly as it formed . |
| 5 | Inevitably we are moved in the direction of using proxies which can not properly be validated . |
| 6 | The only systematic disentanglement from corporatist theorizing and policy analysis of the administrative component was by R. E. Pahl and J. T. Winkler , writing at a time when it seemed that Britain had been developing in the direction of corporatism for the previous fifteen years and was experiencing sectoral planning , planning agreements and statutory or voluntary controls over prices , profit margins , dividends , wages , rents and the movement of capital . |
| 7 | In fact I think the people who are looking in the direction of change in terms of parent governors and P T As etcetera are , I think looking in the wrong direction . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're up in the air at the moment , ’ Bono concludes a line of conversation where we 're wondering about the direction and attitude of new music ( But can you trust it ? ) especially those current wagon hoppers such as Killing Joke ( J'accuse ! ) . |
| 9 | As he will be aware , for the most part attacks have been going in the direction opposite to that to which he drew attention . |
| 10 | Most organizations , very remarkably , are heading in the direction of a stronger division between the two types : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Preliminary results have confirmed that plates are moving in the directions , and at the rates , indicated by already acquired geophysical data . |
| 13 | The lazy undergraduate who can not be persuaded to read Trevor-Roper 's magisterial life of Archbishop Laud might fruitfully be propelled in the direction of the 20-page retrospect reproduced here . |
| 14 | They wished their uncle would come and they could vanish into the huge car but no motor could be heard in the direction from which he would come . |
| 15 | In 1920 , considering ‘ the impotence of contemporary drama ’ , he had concluded that ‘ The natural evolution , for us , would be to proceed in the direction indicated by Browning ; to distil the dramatic essences , if we can , and infuse them into some other liquor . ’ |
| 16 | This should then be considered at the directions stage . |
| 17 | All strokes should be made in the direction of the heart , pushing blood towards it . |
| 18 | In music of a definitely pictorial kind such as this , every effort must be made in the direction of realism , provided that no violence is done to the musical outline of the original . |
| 19 | It was realistically painted in the authentic lifeboat colours and had a sail of white lights which could be turned to the direction of travel . |
| 20 | ‘ But it is not fair that your remorse should be turned in the direction of seeking someone else to blame . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm going in the direction of the Rialto Bridge . |
| 22 | ‘ Because you seemed to be going in the direction we were going . ’ |
| 23 | Now remember that a helicopter , unlike a conventional aircraft , does not necessarily have to be pointing in the direction that it is moving and that the pilot must tell the tail where to go at all times . |
| 24 | By setting up the Secret Committee Alexander acted in the style of his father ; by ordering Nazimov to delve more deeply into the views of the north-westerners he showed sympathy for a landless concept of emancipation which belonged to the reign of Alexander I. The regime seemed to be moving in the direction not so much of freeing the serfs as of turning a blind eye to them ( by consigning their future to yet another assembly of antediluvian officials ) or making their condition worse ( by opting for a form of emancipation which would blight their future ) . |
| 25 | Alexander seemed not so much to be moving in the direction of reform as to be making the achievement of emancipation more difficult . |
| 26 | Once again , it seemed to be coming from the direction of the hill . |
| 27 | The aim of public policy — and of chairmen who do not merely want protection — should be to lean in the direction of involved shareholders , those who have a direct interest in a company 's fate . |
| 28 | WC connections should be swept in the direction of flow with a minimum radius of sweep of 50mm ( to the inside of the bend ) |
| 29 | Very often a guardian ad litem will be appointed before the directions appointment so that he may attend . |
| 30 | The difference appears to be caused by the direction of the plunge of the mass of water when the wave breaks . |