Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be decidedly odd if in Britain any small party were to persist in advocating a system practically certain to work in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | However , it is less appreciated that in many cases the causality also appears to work in the opposite direction ; that is , the nature of the British housing system tends to form and perpetuate major demographic differentials in terms of fertility , nuptiality and marital breakdown , and mortality . |
| 3 | She knew from the frequent worried glances the other woman sent in her direction that Candy had seen through the act , but she 'd managed with some effort to avoid her , always finding some pretext to disappear in the opposite direction whenever Candy appeared on the horizon . |
| 4 | In other respects American firms brought American techniques to bear in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | An adjustable control system allows you to pass in a different direction to which you 're running , enabling lots of teamwork between your players , including clever one-twos . |
| 6 | And while conservative , " Hanslickian " , music might , at least in part , elicit such a response , the new music was likely to lead in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | At the same time , the relationship between the two academics begins to progress in a similar direction . |
| 8 | In order to conform to the conventional direction of the papillomavirus genome the octamer sequence has been written as ATTTGCAT rather than the complementary sequence ATGCAAAT which is more often presented . |
| 9 | He fell into step beside her and they continued to walk in the same direction . |
| 10 | I was learning very fast to walk in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | His feet felt like lead and slowly , fearfully , he turned to look in the general direction of the voice . |
| 12 | We are beginning to look in the right direction , and there is a genuine urgency . |
| 13 | Principles are like the moon that can be reflected in a thousand pools — if we choose to look in the right direction into a pool . |
| 14 | My personal preference , while awaiting further light , is to look in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | Where others were most sharply conscious of the crisis posed for theology by the development of modern culture and the change in our self-awareness , he saw the real crisis as lying in the inability of theology to do justice to its object , and called it to look in the opposite direction from that it had been taking . |
| 16 | She was about to veer in a different direction when she felt an arm like steel round her waist . |
| 17 | If you are going somewhere then you have to know where you are going in order to point in the right direction . |
| 18 | Moreover the provisions of section 2(1) ( a ) also seem to point in the same direction . |
| 19 | When we present ourselves with the decision we are much more inclined to drift in a certain direction leaving ourselves the option of getting out if we find we do not like it . |
| 20 | This , of course , causes the pendulum to swing in the same direction . |
| 21 | But it is far from certain that all the fish in every corporate shoal want to swim in the same direction . |
| 22 | There are many different definitions of leadership , but they do seem to have certain features in common and a useful general definition is that given by Kossen : ‘ Leadership is the ability to influence the behaviour of others to go in a certain direction . ’ |
| 23 | If we return to the definition of leadership as the ability to influence others to go in a certain direction then this ability may be required at many different levels within the organisation . |
| 24 | We can expand , therefore , Kossen 's original definition so that our definition of leadership is the ability to influence the behaviour of others to go in a certain direction within a given context . |
| 25 | We have discussed the notion that leaders will influence others to go in a certain direction . |
| 26 | His most famous champion , Jasper , would even turn and , by his demeanour and stance , ‘ tell ’ my father that he was not right , when directed to go in a wrong direction in pursuit of some unfortunate , injured but running , bird . |
| 27 | Yet it can happen that the momentum of the previous plan ( or previous chief executive ) is still pulling in one direction whilst the new plan ( or chief executive ) wants to go in the other direction . |
| 28 | A second important difference is that if he misses his place in a routine he will be totally lost , whereas if he happens to go in the wrong direction while using a map he is still able to make whatever correction is necessary . |
| 29 | Canada has gone further and the US Congressional Budget Office ( 1983 ) has been urging the US Congress to go in the same direction . |
| 30 | As with the peak-hours curve , it tended to go in the opposite direction to TV . |