Example sentences of "[vb -s] in the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pip 's relationship with Magwitch somewhat develops in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | The first development of the Tollmien-Schlichting waves is that they become three-dimensional ; their amplitude varies in the lateral direction parallel to the wall . |
| 3 | This way , all the grain travels in the same direction and you do not store up shrinkage problems . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Also , a tiny opening in the bone , called the neutrient foramen , should open laterally , but it opens in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | a method of folding in which each fold opens in the opposite direction to its neighbour , giving a concertina or pleated effect . |
| 7 | Obviously many things might muddy the correlation between social structure and prohibited partners , but one piece of existing evidence points in the right direction . |
| 8 | The introduction of a local income tax therefore requires a major reform to income tax and one that points in the opposite direction to the recent individualisation of tax — with separate assessment for husbands and wives . |
| 9 | Their occurrence with other prestigious grave goods in the burials of royal personages in ancient China points in the same direction . |
| 10 | The extensive use of lead during the Cycladic Early Bronze Age points in the same direction for the Aegean . |
| 11 | Evidence which also points in the same direction has come not from critics but from within the Kandel group itself . |
| 12 | Turn the rim of the compass round carefully until the North marking points in the same direction as the needle . |
| 13 | Christopher Feake [ q.v. ] described her as a gentlewoman , and her fluent and confident style points in the same direction . |
| 14 | Such measures of absences from parish registers are the crudest of indicators , but other evidence points in the same direction . |
| 15 | It goes in the right direction in so far as it does aim to re to continue to reduction in migration , but it does n't go far enough . |
| 16 | So I would say that the North Yorkshire er figure in summary , goes in the right direction but not far enough . |
| 17 | We can contrast the Government 's approach with Labour 's approach , which goes in the opposite direction , once again leading industry and the public as lambs to the militant trade unionist slaughter . |
| 18 | Because er , everything shifts in the wrong direction . |
| 19 | An argument which pulls in the opposite direction is this : even when the government or a governmental agency is , for example , making contracts , it is doing so in some sense as representative of the citizenry at large and must bear the interests of the community as a whole constantly in mind . |
| 20 | These are , at least , moves in the right direction . |
| 21 | The moon moves in the same direction as the Earth 's rotation , slightly extending the interval between high tides to 12.4 hours . |
| 22 | The second mode p = 2 corresponds to the movement of the chain ends in opposite directions ; for p = 3 , both chain ends move in the same direction , but the centre moves in the opposite direction . |
| 23 | The use of this equipment should obviate this problem and also helps to ensure that the sphincterotomy continues in the correct direction . |
| 24 | Jogs occur when , over small number of monomer units , the linear chain is displaced laterally but continues in the same direction as before . |
| 25 | Sheltered housing in Scotland , upgrading of hostels , adapting premises , such as mother and baby homes where there was less need , to shelters for the victims of violent homes — which was a growing problem — all received pushes in the right direction under Eva 's capable guidance . |
| 26 | ( 3.2 ) : T1 , e first step command changes the excitation to phases B and C and the static torque at the position 8 , then exceeds the load torque , so the motor accelerates in the positive direction . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | As the joystick tilts away from the vertical the mercury flows in the chosen direction and makes one or more electrical contacts , just as though a switch had closed . |
| 29 | In mammals the blood flows in the opposite direction to the Now of air . |
| 30 | Children to parents What about support which flows in the opposite direction , from children to parents ? |