Example sentences of "both directions " in BNC.
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| 1 | We manhandled the formwork into position , digging out here and there to get it level in both directions . |
| 2 | ‘ Underrecording in both directions ’ was an important factor , as Dunning and Murphy stress . |
| 3 | Flex your wrist up and down , and rotate it several times in both directions . |
| 4 | It can mean share-option schemes , so that top executives have their wealth tied ( in both directions ) to their firm 's long-term performance . |
| 5 | We scan the street nervously in both directions . |
| 6 | Philip ran into the ride , looking in both directions along it . |
| 7 | All the front linkages in the three ranges can be fitted with a pto which is operated by a electro-hydraulic clutch and works at 1000rpm in both directions . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't forget to paint so you can see the splash from both directions , coming and going , and do n't get out of sight of your last splash . ’ |
| 9 | One leaf on the table has been laid and , with the help of side mirrors , is reflected ad infinitum in both directions . |
| 10 | Walking : The tourist office provides maps to show the many marked walks which include lakeside paths in both directions from Bellagio . |
| 11 | This Invention relates to lifts for transferring barges and other vessels from one level to another on canals and other waterways in lieu of an ordinary lock or flight of locks , the object of the invention being to obviate the loss of water from the higher to the lower level by lockage inseparable from the ordinary system and to provide for the passage of vessels simultaneously in both directions and at a single life and between levels of widely different altitude where by the loss of time incidental to the passage through a flight of locks is in great measure avoided . |
| 12 | His quarry crouched on a rock at the apex of a slight bend in the track from whence he could see in both directions . |
| 13 | There are arguments in both directions where regulation is concerned . |
| 14 | In the twelfth century , the Christians in Beaufort had confronted Muslims in both directions . |
| 15 | Being Saturday , there were a number of burly walkers picking their way over the granite from both directions which , unlike the presence of the bermuda-shorted brigade puffing their way up the other side of Ben Nevis , was curiously comforting . |
| 16 | At the Gynn , the ravine was bridged and an elaborate tramway layout constructed , facilitating cars reversing in both directions . |
| 17 | It is now a private house , but retains the characteristic features of the Victorian toll-house , with windows facing in both directions ( see London — Hampstead ) . |
| 18 | It is a single-storey castellated building with Gothic windows in its rounded front and each side of its little porch , giving the keeper a view of the road in both directions . |
| 19 | Later toll-houses were usually built with a projecting bay having windows flanking the door at roughly 45° angles so that the keeper could see approaching traffic in both directions . |
| 20 | It was touch-and-go whether she could reach the pram before it either overturned or leapt from the rocky wall at the foot of the bank on to the road , along which traffic was speeding in both directions . |
| 21 | The third coequal member of this trinity , but distinguished from its fellows by the brownness of its interior colour scheme , relieved the strain of five journeys a week by doing two or three itself , in both directions . |
| 22 | It is envisaged that in some cases there will be transfer in both directions between this course and the above degree course ( see page 97 ) . |
| 23 | He was also first to circumnavigate the world in both directions , the first to have entered both the Arctic and Antarctic circles . |
| 24 | This can happen in both directions . |
| 25 | He extended the midsummer sunrise line in both directions to pass through the top of Sidbury Hill to the north-east , and touch the earthworks of Grovely Castle and Castle Ditches in the other direction . |
| 26 | He later extended the line in both directions and continued to plot and photograph tree clumps in the surrounding countryside , gradually discovering several more alignments , including a parallel system extending from the Sevenoaks Range to the High Weald in Sussex . |
| 27 | I always look in both directions when I have to cross a one-way street . |
| 28 | Jo 's organising them all , down the hill at a brisk pace , impossible to talk while you time a dash across the road scooping the kids up with you as lorries thunder in both directions farting diesel fumes into your face . |
| 29 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |
| 30 | Moreover , they are suitable only for residential roads where the traffic flow is light ( a peak flow of under 250v/hr in both directions ) and are not therefore applicable to larger city districts which would normally contain a hierarchy of road types . |