Example sentences of "[noun] go [prep] [art] [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one bad moment , when he met a car going in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | Some jews went in the opposite direction by expropriating a territory in Palestine ( on the grounds of an historical occupation ) to substantiate their claim to being a nation . |
| 3 | I take the view that the charters go in the right direction . |
| 4 | Maybe we 'll come across a friendly native with a forked stick going in the right direction and I 'll give him the big-screen smile and hand it over . |
| 5 | We 'd gone miles , then saw your tracks going in the opposite direction , so we doubled back . ’ |
| 6 | Hips going in the opposite direction to the feet , ending in Ethel standing on one leg like a stork the other leg wrapped round Sid 's waist and he bending over backwards with his head touching the floor . |
| 7 | I do n't sort of think of it as art going in the other direction . |
| 8 | Brian Keighley sees the game going in a different direction . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't see so many people going in the opposite direction now , so I hope that 's a sign that we 've persuaded a few of them to stay in town and watch their local team . ’ |
| 10 | So Gloria and Maudie set off one way , towards West Ferry Road , while Ruth and Sarah went in the other direction . |
| 11 | Other great cities went in the same direction , without any questions being asked in central government , or by the opposition , about the electoral system . |
| 12 | When I did a lot of my chord studying I used a Gibson 175 , and a cello guitar will obviously make your music go in a certain direction . |
| 13 | Canada has gone further and the US Congressional Budget Office ( 1983 ) has been urging the US Congress to go in the same direction . |
| 14 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 15 | The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction . |
| 16 | Yet reality went in the reverse direction ; the world cake was sliced vertically , not horizontally . |
| 17 | The two men went in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | There are many different definitions of leadership , but they do seem to have certain features in common and a useful general definition is that given by Kossen : ‘ Leadership is the ability to influence the behaviour of others to go in a certain direction . ’ |
| 19 | If we return to the definition of leadership as the ability to influence others to go in a certain direction then this ability may be required at many different levels within the organisation . |
| 20 | We can expand , therefore , Kossen 's original definition so that our definition of leadership is the ability to influence the behaviour of others to go in a certain direction within a given context . |
| 21 | We have discussed the notion that leaders will influence others to go in a certain direction . |
| 22 | There was a slight seasonal effect of gradually declining response to models , but this could not have biased the results because the response to crest accentuation went in the opposite direction , increasing significantly between early ( small crests ) presentations and the first accentuated crest presentations . |
| 23 | Total employment during the quarter rose 700 , but operating expenses went in the opposite direction from cost of sales , 30.3% of revenues compared with 32.5% in the year-ago quarter , as the company continued the remorseless cost-cutting drive . |
| 24 | Total employment during the quarter rose 700 , but operating expenses went in the opposite direction from cost of sales , 30.3% of revenues compared with 32.5% in the year-ago quarter , as the company continued the remorseless cost-cutting drive . |