Example sentences of "work 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 | The ruler does n't only work in the horizontal direction . |
| 4 | The Western Region , envious of the success of the London Midland Region Radio Land Cruise Trains , introduced their own on 29th June 1£954 which worked in the opposite direction to the L.M. Region turns . |
| 5 | The CAP , the largest component of the EC 's budget , by providing assistance on the basis of output and type of product , was not regionally directed and often worked in the opposite direction to regional policy . |
| 6 | Nearly all of the changes made by the Conservatives during the 1980s with respect to wages , benefits , taxation and the treatment of wealth have worked in the same direction . |
| 7 | At least it showed that the girl 's mind was working in the right direction . |
| 8 | Is this not working in the opposite direction to treatment by similars and driving the imbalances , the illnesses , deeper into the system ? |
| 9 | If a school is to be effective , the staff should all be working in the same direction , rather than pursuing conflicting goals . |
| 10 | Another significant factor working in the same direction towards decentralised negotiations in many European countries may also have been the increased importance of foreign-owned firms , particularly US multinationals ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 11 | They were seen to be working in the same direction and although it has not yet been possible to gauge the extent to which they help in the task of managing new education , their contribution to quality assurance should , by tradition , be valuable . |
| 12 | The manager has the board 's full support and we have got to try and get everyone working in the same direction . ’ |
| 13 | Well , yes , it 's very interesting , but I 'm not sure it 's working in the same direction as almost implied by your question of implying that there was almost too much . |
| 14 | Well it 's very interesting , but I 'm not sure it 's working in the same direction as almost implied by your question of implying that there was almost too much . |
| 15 | Notice that , at a phenomenological level , the slow modification process works in the opposite direction to the fast modification process , which desensitised the system to the adapting stimulus . |