Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the direction " in BNC.

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1 The renovation , which was carried out under the direction of an architect.who lived on Strand-on-the-Green , received a Times-R.I.C.S .
2 Work on the development of the tests ( ‘ Standard Assessment Tasks ’ ) is being carried out under the direction of the School Examinations and Assessment Council ( SEAC ) ( see below ) .
3 These new features were included in the specification of the two double-deck cars that were completely rebuilt by the Department , with work carried out under the direction of Mr. Stuart Pillar , the then-Chief Engineer , who was justly rewarded with the MBE upon his retirement in 1982 .
4 When he was well , he always seemed to be in demand and was proud to have worked on the Salisbury Cathedral restoration in the 1860 s , carried out under the direction of the great Victorian architect , Sir Gilbert Scott .
5 Apart from the comparative investigation of women 's political behaviour carried out under the direction of Maurice Duverger ( 1955 ) very little systematic work was done in this area .
6 It is anticipated that a research and evaluation study will be carried out under the direction of Professor Rex Taylor , Glasgow University Walker House and the other pilot projects are currently being evaluated by Dennis McCullough , Jordanhill College , Glasgow .
7 This view was subsequently confirmed by a thorough review of the operation requirement which was carried out under the direction of the four chiefs of defence staff .
8 If you roll an arrow the Goblin Doom Diver has missed and veered off in the direction indicated by the arrow .
9 The immediate ‘ bone ’ offered to Mrs Castle was the phasing out of 1,000 pay beds , but that thereafter further pay beds would only be phased out on the direction of the newly established board , with a number of criteria required to justify the release of additional beds : the principal one being the establishment of an alternative source of private beds in the locality of change .
10 He was later seen getting into a silver metallic car which was driven off in the direction of Cheyney Road .
11 Elsewhere fully grown trees were uprooted , and were found laid out in the direction of the blast .
12 A dish in any Pacific city east of the longitude of Mexico City — Lima , say , or Quito , or Santiago — will be cranked down in the direction of an equally low point on the eastern horizon — for just as American naval vessels involved in exercises off the Pacific coasts of Peru , Ecuador or Chile are regarded as being part of the US Atlantic Fleet , so communicators , for reasons of pure geometry , think of these countries ' capital cities as part of the Atlantic communications network .
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