Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the opposite " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bottle-wrack 's reproductive habit has exactly the effect of increasing this ratio ; splurge-weed 's habit has just the opposite effect . |
| 2 | But such behaviour has precisely the opposite effect . |
| 3 | Yet the First World War produced exactly the opposite result : after an initial rise from 120,000 in 1914 to 600,000 in 1915 the number of children taking meals fell to 75,000 in 1918 — caused , of course , by the fact that improved employment opportunities and higher real wages brought about by the war economy lifted an increasing number of parents above the eligibility level . |
| 4 | So from four we count five backwards count minus five just means count down the opposite way , so we go one , two , three , four , five , so it should be minus one . |
| 5 | However , the actual reproduction or modernist form over the last century and a half has revealed exactly the opposite tendency , since objects formed entirely on the basis of utility have proved singularly unattractive ( which accounts for their general absence from commercial marketing ) . |
| 6 | What needs to be spelt out very clearly before polling day is that PR would bring about the opposite effect to what many voters comfortably believe . |
| 7 | I ventured to express exactly the opposite opinion and was stared at as if I were a hawker of ladies ’ underwear who had accidentally strayed into a monastery . ’ |
| 8 | Indeed , the very concrete physicality of objects might lead us to expect quite the opposite conclusion , which is that it is language which organizes the deep unconscious , while objects as visible images are a relatively superficial phenomenon . |
| 9 | If Deffenbacher is correct in his conclusion that effective arousal manipulations result in an impairment of memory , how is it possible for Heuer and Reisberg ( 1990 ) to conclude just the opposite , both from their experimental results and a review of previous research ? |
| 10 | People with bright ideas must not only carry their opinions out of politics and into the research institutions , but must regularly move back the opposite way when the call comes . |
| 11 | The process and practice of the schooling of science , for all its changes , has become almost the opposite — ‘ necessarily dogmatic ’ according to Jevons and many others , and producing technological domination rather than emancipation . |
| 12 | But in this case the enlightened engineer was concerned to do precisely the opposite , and as the digger pulled back the rubble , he exposed an area of wall which looked for a moment as if it was made entirely of shiny cream bones . |
| 13 | What is the point of doing that when they present precisely the opposite image in real life ? |
| 14 | But it seems to me to be having just the opposite effect . ’ |
| 15 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 16 | Some stimuli in the environment will help you diet , and some will have just the opposite effect . |
| 17 | Clearly , training that allows the subjects to come to the task with these associations ready formed will be of help ; and equally clearly , reversed pre-training will have just the opposite effect . |
| 18 | This will have exactly the opposite effect and they will then be able to relax without appearing to have insulted a host 's favourite pet . |
| 19 | It seems Cheltenham 's artistic attempt to engender friendship is having exactly the opposite effect , for the time being at least . |
| 20 | Radcliffe-Brown , however , elegantly shows us how we can make sense of all this without invoking the tenuous spectre of an earlier ‘ matriarchal ’ stage which he points out would actually have quite the opposite influence . |
| 21 | However , over the longer term , it may also have precisely the opposite effect to that which was intended . |
| 22 | The odd thing is that the resulting book will have precisely the opposite effect on most readers . |
| 23 | No I 'm saying precisely the opposite , David , Harrogate Borough Council . |
| 24 | This may have completely the opposite effect to that intended . |
| 25 | Yet it would be possible to argue exactly the opposite case . |
| 26 | Phoebe , who might have been a slut , had in fact become exactly the opposite — she had not time or patience or tolerance for anyone she considered to be exploiting the manual work of other women . |
| 27 | They jumped it and went up the opposite slope . |
| 28 | But , on arriving at Charleville-Mezieres , Knobelsdorf in fact took quite the opposite line with Falkenhayn . |
| 29 | At Dunstable , where the rebels were townsmen , they tried to restrict freedom of trade to within the borough , whereas the rural Essex rebels had followed precisely the opposite policy , and at Yarmouth the insurgents , drawn from the neighbouring countryside attempted to overthrow the rights of the municipality ( 98 , pp.41 , 108–11 ) . |
| 30 | Thus , the enlightenment of the enlightened despot , the attempt to modernize and make the administration more systematic ( as well as relieve the royal purse ) , produced precisely the opposite reaction . |