Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the reverse direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | The descent into Dentdale from Newby Head is even more stimulating than the outward journey , new aspects of the valley being revealed when seen in the reverse direction , with wider and more distant landscapes coming into view . |
| 2 | However , the trend appears to be going in the reverse direction . |
| 3 | I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding . |
| 4 | Yet reality went in the reverse direction ; the world cake was sliced vertically , not horizontally . |
| 5 | A group of geophysicists who were working on the rocks of the floor of the north-east Pacific had discovered , before Hess 's suggestion was published , that instead of a random pattern of reversals , such as were common on land , the oceanic crust in the Pacific exhibited a pattern of ‘ strip reversals ’ ; the rocks in each strip were magnetized in one fixed direction , but the rocks in alternate , parallel strips were magnetized in the reverse direction . |
| 6 | When for once the tide runs in the reverse direction we get a new view of our own cookery , and a revealing insight into the oddness of traditional names as they appear in another language . |
| 7 | There will be no point in the proceedings at which the gifts which have moved in one direction are directly returned in the reverse direction . |