Example sentences of "[verb] in the same direction [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came on , walking in the same direction as Rachaela , the dilute snow sparkling in his hat like sequins . |
| 2 | ‘ The crystals always grow in the same direction and then they are shaped , ’ they say . |
| 3 | In the first nine regions , including the social variables would have resulted in a change of target allocations which opposed the effect of reducing the weighting of standardised mortality ratio — that is , they act in the same direction as standardised mortality ratio . |
| 4 | You recall that we could not have the needles always selected in the same direction or we would end up with biased fabric ? |
| 5 | Moreover , on some occasions ( and the present scenario could well be one ) the economic and social pressures may be pushing in the same direction as educational forces . |
| 6 | On the beach a speck moved in the same direction as they did . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's lying in the same direction as it was flying when it came down — north-east to south-west . |
| 9 | This effect is best corrected by observing the exhaust smoke and trimming the model so that the tail boom is pointing in the same direction that the smoke is being blown . |
| 10 | This way , all the grain travels in the same direction and you do not store up shrinkage problems . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 13 | Heads of different divisions may informally set their own plan which is not moving in the same direction as the handed down plan to which they pay lip service . |
| 14 | Authors are worried that Britain is moving in the same direction as America , where a wide range of groups have mounted campaigns to ban books from schools and libraries because they do n't conform to their particular view of society . |
| 15 | Perhaps the SNP is moving in the same direction as its Welsh colleagues and is preparing to become a ‘ post nationalist party ’ that fully embraces the concept of Europe of the regions . |
| 16 | Other international companies are moving in the same direction and many , like ICI and BP , are firmly committed in principle to community regeneration . |
| 17 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 18 | Turn the rim of the compass round carefully until the North marking points in the same direction as the needle . |
| 19 | In Britain , Owen and Mivart argued that many cases of evolution consisted of parallel lines of development within the same group , all driven in the same direction as though by an internally programmed force . |
| 20 | It may be that in rivers there are times when two or even more shoals rendezvous at a point along a shared beat and pass each other — whether travelling in the same direction or not — by swimming over the top of whoever has arrived first . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Where we might have expected these to vary in the same direction as the specialist team 's , they in fact exhibit a different set of distinctions , particularly in the high rate of service provision and the trend towards maintaining cases as live . |
| 23 | The term used to describe the course of the board when sailing in the same direction as the wind . |
| 24 | I looked in the same direction and saw a group of men standing and staring at us . |
| 25 | The moon moves in the same direction as the Earth 's rotation , slightly extending the interval between high tides to 12.4 hours . |
| 26 | However , I shall argue that it is only when they do point in the same direction that conditions are suitable for the development of intelligent beings who can ask the question : why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands ? |
| 27 | Jogs occur when , over small number of monomer units , the linear chain is displaced laterally but continues in the same direction as before . |
| 28 | They were seen to be working in the same direction and although it has not yet been possible to gauge the extent to which they help in the task of managing new education , their contribution to quality assurance should , by tradition , be valuable . |
| 29 | Well , yes , it 's very interesting , but I 'm not sure it 's working in the same direction as almost implied by your question of implying that there was almost too much . |
| 30 | Well it 's very interesting , but I 'm not sure it 's working in the same direction as almost implied by your question of implying that there was almost too much . |