Example sentences of "[to-vb] in the [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | He fell into step beside her and they continued to walk in the same direction . |
| 7 | I was learning very fast to walk in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | His feet felt like lead and slowly , fearfully , he turned to look in the general direction of the voice . |
| 9 | We are beginning to look in the right direction , and there is a genuine urgency . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My personal preference , while awaiting further light , is to look in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Gaze at the black bar between the left-hand pair of slanting gratings for about thirty seconds , then transfer your gaze to the dot between the central pair of gratings ; they will appear to slant in the opposite directions . |
| 14 | If you are going somewhere then you have to know where you are going in order to point in the right direction . |
| 15 | Moreover the provisions of section 2(1) ( a ) also seem to point in the same direction . |
| 16 | This , of course , causes the pendulum to swing in the same direction . |
| 17 | But it is far from certain that all the fish in every corporate shoal want to swim in the same direction . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Canada has gone further and the US Congressional Budget Office ( 1983 ) has been urging the US Congress to go in the same direction . |
| 21 | As with the peak-hours curve , it tended to go in the opposite direction to TV . |
| 22 | White may be a very good player and Wilko could have ‘ fancied him ’ , but Rocky should not have been allowed to go in the opposite direction , and as for the ‘ Cantona thing ’ I think that decision will haunt Wilkinson to the grave . |
| 23 | ‘ To catch it they would need to go in the opposite direction first to Thornaby station , where parking is limited . |
| 24 | Once a note is drawn higher than that middle line the tails start to go in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | Until the findings of such research become available , the weight of argument and evidence would appear to fall in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received from industrialists urging the Government directly to intervene in the strategic direction and management of companies . |
| 27 | The wires are then moved a fraction of a centimetre each day to encourage the bone to stretch in the desired direction . |
| 28 | The wires are then moved a fraction of a centimetre each day to encourage the bone to stretch in the desired direction . |
| 29 | So we start at positive four add , add to count in the positive direction , oh |
| 30 | At the same time , however , there have been developments which appear to run in the opposite direction and which reinforce the appearance of employee status . |