Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if there is no molecular symmetry other than the plane , the x and y axes are not uniquely determined by the symmetry and in-plane vibrations and may give a/b-hybrid bands depending on the relative directions of the A and B axes and the dipole change . |
| 2 | The question remains as to whether British policy-makers can fairly argue that by fighting ‘ from within ’ , although they may not have entirely succeeded in limiting the battleground to issues of trade and markets , they have nevertheless ensured that the economic policy itself has pointed in the right direction . |
| 3 | ‘ To catch it they would need to go in the opposite direction first to Thornaby station , where parking is limited . |
| 4 | Yet it can happen that the momentum of the previous plan ( or previous chief executive ) is still pulling in one direction whilst the new plan ( or chief executive ) wants to go in the other direction . |
| 5 | What is important is that cells in area MT of monkey always responded according to the illusory direction of movement of the chevron perceived by a human observer rather than to the physical direction of movement of the component gratings . |
| 6 | Letts , of course , has moved in the other direction , into book publishing ( Blackwells ' Art & Poster Shop has seen a 500% increase in turnover of sales of their books this year , John Harvey-Jones please note ) , but it is well worth stocking Letts ' unbeatable range of the more traditional diaries for which it is so rightly famous . |
| 7 | Mick Mills , replaced at Stoke by Alan Ball , has moved in the opposite direction , succeeding the caretaker manager by becoming Colchester coach . |
| 8 | Mick Mills , replaced at Stoke by Alan Ball , has moved in the opposite direction , succeeding the caretaker manager by becoming Colchester coach . |
| 9 | Above are Steve Restarick ( left ) and Wayne Hannigan , both ex-Wivenhoe who should be in action for Chelmsford while Christian McClean ( below , left ) has moved in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | At the same time , however , there have been developments which appear to run in the opposite direction and which reinforce the appearance of employee status . |
| 11 | The Kinnock conversion has gone in the opposite direction : away from ideology , towards ‘ realism ’ . |
| 12 | That frenzied period has passed and , if anything , the pendulum has swung in the other direction . |
| 13 | He saw the propeller contact something and then appear to rotate in the opposite direction as the engine stopped . |
| 14 | Ten days before , Italians had voted to move in the other direction by scrapping the harshest measures of their drug laws . |
| 15 | When fired you got pushed in the opposite direction to that in which the jet was squirting out . |
| 16 | Until the findings of such research become available , the weight of argument and evidence would appear to fall in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | A second important difference is that if he misses his place in a routine he will be totally lost , whereas if he happens to go in the wrong direction while using a map he is still able to make whatever correction is necessary . |
| 18 | Gaze at the black bar between the left-hand pair of slanting gratings for about thirty seconds , then transfer your gaze to the dot between the central pair of gratings ; they will appear to slant in the opposite directions . |
| 19 | Again the notebooks can be seen moving in the right direction with ‘ Svidrigailov : I 'm happy to go to America at once , but somehow nobody really wants to . ’ |
| 20 | Heaven help anyone wanting to travel in the opposite direction on the Monday morning ! |
| 21 | In contrast , lack of public concern , the absence of legislation and departmental procedures , and a general lack of professional concern seemed to conspire in the opposite direction with regard to this elderly woman . |
| 22 | It was n't long after the ball got rolling , together with the head of the Eighties opinion formers , that it got going in the wrong direction . |
| 23 | Bulmers and the thousands of farmers who supply them with fruit are hoping that although the apples will continue to obey the law of gravity , profits and sales will keep going in the opposite direction . |
| 24 | His feet felt like lead and slowly , fearfully , he turned to look in the general direction of the voice . |
| 25 | So we start at positive four add , add to count in the positive direction , oh |
| 26 | I think that people have got to turn in the other direction , and really want to be because I see in schools there are |
| 27 | We are beginning to look in the right direction , and there is a genuine urgency . |
| 28 | This could , however , suggest too late a date for the work at Trier ( for it is very unlikely to have been after 325 ) , indeed , Parlasca ( 1975 , 77 ) thinks the mosaicist could have travelled in the opposite direction . |
| 29 | However , it is less appreciated that in many cases the causality also appears to work in the opposite direction ; that is , the nature of the British housing system tends to form and perpetuate major demographic differentials in terms of fertility , nuptiality and marital breakdown , and mortality . |
| 30 | Quite apart from these omissions , the balance sheet appraisal ignores the economic impact of war on attitudes , expectations and the behaviour of institutions , which might well have operated in the opposite direction . |