Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] the direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economy introduced by the suffix notation may be illustrated by writing out in full as follows Now the direction of dS in the coordinate axes ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) is given by the direction cosines . |
| 2 | It is given by the direction cosines and we find |
| 3 | Starting from the pole the local vector is carried along the direction it points ( a line of longitude ) to the equator ( A ) . |
| 4 | John Zabriskie , who originally found that the blood toxin responsible for scarlet fever is made under the direction of a bacteriophage , is also a member of the team which has made the toxic-shock discovery . |
| 5 | The House of Lords is tending in the direction of becoming a standing revision committee of the Commons . |
| 6 | A little care is needed with the directions in section 7 otherwise the route is easy to follow . |
| 7 | A parallel is drawn between the direction of a Japanese company 's collective effort against outside competitors , and the ability to mobilize national effort . |
| 8 | My first approach with almost all players is to focus on the direction of the attack . |
| 9 | A FIZZING torpedo is heading in the direction of Juan Antonio Samaranch , president of the International Olympic Committee . |
| 10 | Firstly pivot the catapult on the spot so that it is pointing in the direction you wish to shoot . |
| 11 | First pivot the mortar so that it is pointing in the direction you wish to fire . |
| 12 | If light is moving in the direction labelled z in the figure , it has two distinct possibilities of polarisation , corresponding to oscillations in the two mutually perpendicular directions x and y respectively . |
| 13 | The interrelationship of planes is affected by the direction of the hatching . |
| 14 | Alison Wilding is bound in the direction of Karen Schubert , who felt , last year , that he had come very close to having an artist — Rachel Whiteread — win the award . |
| 15 | The exponent is guided by the directions of the compass and defends each area with a block and counter-attack . |
| 16 | The cellulose chains which are laid down in the cell-wall are long and they have their length more or less parallel to the length of the cell or fibre , that is to say in the direction of the applied stress . |