Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [det] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | This way , all the grain travels in the same direction and you do not store up shrinkage problems . |
| 2 | This neat orderliness has been attacked by Le Page and Tabouret-Keller , who write ( 1985 : 198 ) : Such a model necessarily implies a linear sequence of varieties within " a language " , with the implication that all innovation starts from the same source and travels in the same direction ; and that innovation in phonology is paralleled by a similar sequence of innovation in different parts of the grammar and lexicon . |
| 3 | Their occurrence with other prestigious grave goods in the burials of royal personages in ancient China points in the same direction . |
| 4 | The extensive use of lead during the Cycladic Early Bronze Age points in the same direction for the Aegean . |
| 5 | Evidence which also points in the same direction has come not from critics but from within the Kandel group itself . |
| 6 | Turn the rim of the compass round carefully until the North marking points in the same direction as the needle . |
| 7 | Christopher Feake [ q.v. ] described her as a gentlewoman , and her fluent and confident style points in the same direction . |
| 8 | Such measures of absences from parish registers are the crudest of indicators , but other evidence points in the same direction . |
| 9 | The moon moves in the same direction as the Earth 's rotation , slightly extending the interval between high tides to 12.4 hours . |
| 10 | Jogs occur when , over small number of monomer units , the linear chain is displaced laterally but continues in the same direction as before . |
| 11 | If persistently large current account imbalances arose , the antici-pation of devaluation or revaluation would give rise to speculative short-term capital flows in the same direction , putting added pressure on the exchange rate in question . |