Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] in the opposite [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if a choreographer breaks such regularity when setting a classical ballet he usually balances the pattern made on the floor in one enchaînement by another moving in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | And while conservative , " Hanslickian " , music might , at least in part , elicit such a response , the new music was likely to lead in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | The unemployment rates among married heads of household moving from the owner-occupied to the local authority sector is about six times the rate of those moving in the opposite direction ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ) . |
| 4 | When performing the previously described ‘ tail-in circle ’ , this effect can be quite noticeable and , for contest work , it is normal to turn in the opposite direction to mask it . |
| 5 | It would be decidedly odd if in Britain any small party were to persist in advocating a system practically certain to work in the opposite direction . |