Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The crystals always grow in the same direction and then they are shaped , ’ they say . |
| 2 | In the first nine regions , including the social variables would have resulted in a change of target allocations which opposed the effect of reducing the weighting of standardised mortality ratio — that is , they act in the same direction as standardised mortality ratio . |
| 3 | She seems to thrive on heretical statements and swimming against the tide : ‘ I look at what the cosmetic trade is doing and walk in the opposite direction , ’ she declares with the kind of outspoken defiance that has made her a retailing legend in the decade it took her to turn The Body Shop into a worldwide phenomenon . |
| 4 | I am referring , of course , to the fact that birds ' knees apparently bend in the opposite direction to ours — they appear to lift their legs backwards in contrast to our forward movement ( Figure 5 ) . |
| 5 | I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ . |
| 6 | When a startled horse pricks his ears at the source of his alarm , other horses look in the same direction . |
| 7 | Reach the bollard which gives you the opportunity to pause , and take your time before you look in the opposite direction and cross the other half of the road . |
| 8 | ‘ Wherever that man is , look in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | They run in the opposite direction to the positive reactions , although there is a sense in which they too are fixations to the original trauma . |
| 10 | The last Brownie to reach that place and any Brownies who run in the wrong direction are out of the game . |
| 11 | And its aims travel in the same direction , albeit by a slightly different strategic route . |
| 12 | The antiprotons travel in the opposite direction to protons around the ring of magnetics that steer the particles on a circular path , so they pass many times through accelerating electric fields . |
| 13 | You 're trying to focus attention on the presenter , the person giving the speech or answering the questions and it is a dreadful distraction to have beside and behind him or her numbers of men and women who invariably want to whisper , gesticulate , stare in the wrong direction , scratch their heads , pick their noses or make their exits at completely the wrong moment . |
| 14 | Where there are dramatic differences of incidence for different groups , where the social pattern investigated is simplex ( for example , class difference only ) , and where the differences virtually always tend in the same direction , it is often unnecessary to test for significance , because the patterns revealed are so clear that no one could believe they are the results of pure chance . |
| 15 | Although in some instances the sex/style differences are very slight , they are quite consistent in that they usually tend in the same direction , much as Labov ( 1966 : 7 ) found for social class and style : ‘ Native New Yorkers differ in their usage in terms of absolute values of the variables , but the shifts between contrasting styles follow the same pattern in almost every case . ’ |
| 16 | This may also , it is held , operate in the other direction between girl , father and mother . |
| 17 | Because the horizontal and vertical externalities here operate in the same direction , the clear prediction is that , in the absence of any agreements , too little promotional and demonstration activity will take place . |
| 18 | We turn in the opposite direction to meet the path . |
| 19 | The simplest maze is a T-maze in which the individual has to make one directional choice ; by rewarding rats that turn one way rather than the other ( or by giving them an electric shock if they turn in the opposite direction ) , the experimenter can teach them to make a consistent and predictable choice . |
| 20 | I take the view that the charters go in the right direction . |
| 21 | go in the opposite direction , turned your pen round and you go the other way . |
| 22 | It may carry fittings for stand-offs , in which case the cross-spar must be rotated so that the fittings point In the correct direction , then the spar can be inserted into the vinyls . |
| 23 | The facts point in the other direction . |
| 24 | Siple , Brewer and Caccamise ( 1980 ) present results which point in the same direction . |
| 25 | In this chapter I shall argue that the no boundary condition for the universe , together with the weak anthropic principle , can explain why all three arrows point in the same direction — and moreover , why a well-defined arrow of time should exist at all . |
| 26 | I shall argue that the psychological arrow is determined by the thermodynamic arrow , and that these two arrows necessarily always point in the same direction . |
| 27 | To return to the arrow of time , there remains the question : Why do we observe that the thermodynamic and cosmological arrows point in the same direction ? |
| 28 | Several signs from differing sources point in the same direction . |
| 29 | Then turn to the opposite direction by stepping with the left foot about a shoulder 's width to the left , thus ending up in a left forward stance in the opposite direction . |
| 30 | Disquiet at the new direction of religious affairs soon surfaced in parliament , and over the next few years a growing number of MPs began to speak out against the Arminian threat . |