Example sentences of "[vb infin] in the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When they become alarmed they go very quiet , waiting for something to happen so that they can run in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most interesting is that their time must run in the opposite direction to our own : their ‘ future ’ is the birth of the Universe and their ‘ past ’ is its end . |
| 3 | Tour two will run in the opposite direction ; while tour three will take the route to Kettering and back via Corby and Syston Junction . |
| 4 | The ruler does n't only work in the horizontal direction . |
| 5 | You must row in the same direction . |
| 6 | As we have seen , NAB itself may well move in the latter direction , and possibly the former also . |
| 7 | But he says the problems with next year 's funding mean that ‘ in the short term , we will move in the opposite direction ’ . |
| 8 | Remember that the RC will move in the opposite direction to your turn . |
| 9 | Let your arms swing in the opposite direction to your legs . |
| 10 | Alternate legs and let your arms swing in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | Let your arms swing in the opposite direction to your legs . |
| 12 | Let your arms swing in the opposite direction . |
| 13 | Let your arms swing in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | Let your arms swing in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | In this section , where we are concerned with the development of discourse skills in students and the degree to which existing materials help this development , we shall proceed in the opposite direction from that of Section One and move top-down through the levels of discourse described in Figure 8 . |
| 16 | You can write your weight in a diary or on a chart or graph and see progress develop in the right direction over time . |
| 17 | Water well , then carefully remove the container and gently tease out the outer roots , so they do n't develop in the wrong direction . |
| 18 | You can only go in the future direction in time , but you can go at a bit of an angle to it . |
| 19 | Seneca wrote that ‘ when we want to reach a city or marketplace , we watch where the people are going and we follow them ; but in life we should watch where they go and then we should go in the opposite direction . ’ |
| 20 | Annie was hoping he would go in the opposite direction when they got to the end of the path leading from the rose gardens but to her dismay he moved into step beside her . |
| 21 | However , I fear that the GATT talks will go in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | So we 'll walk in the general direction of Tamsin . |
| 23 | Of course , as the examples of man , woman , and people illustrate , one can economize in the opposite direction as it were , from grammar to lexis . |
| 24 | It would either stay constant , in which case there would be no well-defined thermodynamic arrow of time , or it would decrease , in which case the thermodynamic arrow of time would point in the opposite direction to the cosmological arrow . |
| 25 | The same ideas apply in digraphs , except that all the edges must point in the same direction . |
| 26 | If one assumes the no boundary condition for the universe , we shall see that there must be well-defined thermodynamic and cosmological arrows of time , but they will not point in the same direction for the whole history of the universe . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | I have shown that the psychological arrow is essentially the same as the thermodynamic arrow , so that the two would always point in the same direction . |
| 29 | Their efforts must all pull in the same direction , without friction , without unnecessary duplication of effort ’ . |
| 30 | Although , typically , information passes from DNA to RNA , it can travel in the opposite direction . |