Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] direction " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ .
2 Reach the bollard which gives you the opportunity to pause , and take your time before you look in the opposite direction and cross the other half of the road .
3 We turn in the opposite direction to meet the path .
4 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 .
5 They run in the opposite direction to the positive reactions , although there is a sense in which they too are fixations to the original trauma .
6 The simplest maze is a T-maze in which the individual has to make one directional choice ; by rewarding rats that turn one way rather than the other ( or by giving them an electric shock if they turn in the opposite direction ) , the experimenter can teach them to make a consistent and predictable choice .
7 If the factor is positive , the polymer chains sediment away from the centre of rotation to the cell bottom , if negative , they move in the opposite direction and float to the top .
  Next page