Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] same direction " in BNC.

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1 It did n't take long to get Graham 's eyes looking in the same direction .
2 With the narrow lanes around Bentworth , any approaching traffic would have had to give way and cars travelling in the same direction could have been held up .
3 On the beach a speck moved in the same direction as they did .
4 However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst .
5 In the worst possible case , with all errors operating in the same direction and all being at plus or minus two standard errors ( a most unlikely occurrence and an overstatement of the true joint confidence intervals ) , the estimated expenditure needs might range from £108 to £509 for every child aged 5–17 .
6 The spins of the two protons are measured along axes which for each proton on each occasion are selected at random from the possible choices unc Sometimes both protons have their spins measured in the same directions ( both o , say ) , sometimes they are in different directions ( one A one y , say ) .
7 to pass ahead of the foremost part of another moving motor vehicle , being a vehicle proceeding in the same direction wholly or partly within that area , or
8 ‘ to pass ahead of the foremost part of another moving motor vehicle , being a vehicle proceeding in the same direction wholly or partly within that area ’ This phrase means that the offending vehicle or part of it must pass ahead of a slower moving motor vehicle travelling in the same direction .
9 In order to observe a primordial black hole one would have to detect several gamma ray quanta coming from the same direction within a reasonable space of time , such as a week .
10 ‘ to pass ahead of the foremost part of another moving motor vehicle , being a vehicle proceeding in the same direction wholly or partly within that area ’ This phrase means that the offending vehicle or part of it must pass ahead of a slower moving motor vehicle travelling in the same direction .
11 Such measures of absences from parish registers are the crudest of indicators , but other evidence points in the same direction .
12 This , of course , causes the pendulum to swing in the same direction .
13 Their occurrence with other prestigious grave goods in the burials of royal personages in ancient China points in the same direction .
14 And its aims travel in the same direction , albeit by a slightly different strategic route .
15 This way , all the grain travels in the same direction and you do not store up shrinkage problems .
16 Progress to soften the heartless pay-as-you're-cured system in the States will give power to the elbow of those fighting to stop our National Health Service drifting in the same direction .
17 Several signs from differing sources point in the same direction .
18 The moon moves in the same direction as the Earth 's rotation , slightly extending the interval between high tides to 12.4 hours .
19 Another significant factor working in the same direction towards decentralised negotiations in many European countries may also have been the increased importance of foreign-owned firms , particularly US multinationals ( see Chapter 8 ) .
20 The extensive use of lead during the Cycladic Early Bronze Age points in the same direction for the Aegean .
21 The second mode p = 2 corresponds to the movement of the chain ends in opposite directions ; for p = 3 , both chain ends move in the same direction , but the centre moves in the opposite direction .
22 Other great cities went in the same direction , without any questions being asked in central government , or by the opposition , about the electoral system .
23 Christopher Feake [ q.v. ] described her as a gentlewoman , and her fluent and confident style points in the same direction .
24 It was still possible that this was thermonuclear fusion taking place in a mass of gas moving in the same direction as the current , but other measurements made this seem very unlikely .
25 This would have no impact on the fusion rate , but a tokamak can contain alpha particles more easily if they start their life travelling in the same direction as the magnetic field that contains the plasma .
26 To do this requires managers , consultants , and juniors to move in the same direction .
27 If persistently large current account imbalances arose , the antici-pation of devaluation or revaluation would give rise to speculative short-term capital flows in the same direction , putting added pressure on the exchange rate in question .
28 As they neared the small shop they were nearly knocked to the ground by a young man fleeing from the same direction .
29 Canada has gone further and the US Congressional Budget Office ( 1983 ) has been urging the US Congress to go in the same direction .
30 Conditions in the contracting phase would not be suitable for the existence of intelligent beings who could ask the question : Why is disorder increasing in the same direction of time as that in which the universe is expanding ?
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