Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] in the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction . |
| 2 | The OR Staff are quite rightly intent on seeking battle-winning performance ; the scientists and technologists enjoy and rise to the challenge ; and so both the principal groups of participants in equipment development are pushing in the same direction without an effective countervailing force . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're going in the right direction but I do n't know where the piste has got to . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't think the vicarage can be here — Dorothy , are you sure we 're going in the right direction ? ’ |
| 5 | It is different from country to country , and I sometimes feel I mean I 'm not sure whether I 'm being unfair to our industry here , but it does seem to me that perhaps we have n't quite got our act together yet , we 're going in the right direction , but we have n't quite got there . |
| 6 | And then they take their jackets off and rush down the road at five thousand miles an hour and when you say to them , but you 're going in the wrong direction . |
| 7 | It does n't seem the slightest use having leadership if you 're leading in the wrong direction . |
| 8 | You 're not doing anything with your life because as usual you 're facing in the wrong direction and going the wrong way . |
| 9 | ‘ You do know , of course , that you 're pointing in the wrong direction , ’ Gabriel stated . |
| 10 | Compared to the experience of hearing music ‘ live ’ even under unfavourable circumstances there is often very little sense that the musicians are pulling in the same direction , or that the music ebbs and flows in a natural , organic or above all believable way . |
| 11 | There is a sense that things are heading in the right direction in South Africa , and that is all . |
| 12 | But these are not organised , structured animal societies — they are abnormal explosions of the locust population and they carry with them the seeds of their own downfall , as do modern human populations that are heading in the same direction . |
| 13 | ‘ Should you see a lady that you know , carrying a basket , and you are going in the same direction , offer to carry it for her . ’ |
| 14 | But you can spare very much trouble because there are times when you can say to someone , ‘ At this point , you are going in the wrong direction . ’ |
| 15 | You can enjoy the feeling that you and your life are moving in the right direction towards action , health , harmony and independence . |
| 16 | If the patient 's well-being is enhanced or if a problem such as asthma is cured , but joint pains flare up or a skin rash develops , the physician can reassure the patient that things are moving in the right direction and that the joint or skin problem should be transient and will also clear up in due course . |
| 17 | The consensus , however , is that we are moving in the right direction and the further 1% cut in base rates and its knock-on effect on mortgages is the best tonic the country could get . |
| 18 | Other international companies are moving in the same direction and many , like ICI and BP , are firmly committed in principle to community regeneration . |
| 19 | They are none the less important , for other industries are moving in the same direction . |
| 20 | The symptoms are moving in the opposite direction to suppression and this is necessary if a long-lasting cure is to be achieved . |
| 21 | Apparently , one out of every 16 signposts at crossroads in the region are pointing in the wrong direction . |
| 22 | Fiona : They are facing in the wrong direction . |
| 23 | Thought well at least I 'm heading in the right direction you know . |