Example sentences of "move in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Bacteria can show ‘ learning ’ by the fact that they move in response to a chemical gradient , but this is clearly different from the memory capacity of higher animals and man .
2 From astronomy : Planets move in ellipses around their sun .
3 All planets , wherever they are situated , always move in ellipses around their sun .
4 The law , ‘ All planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ , is scientific because it claims that planets in fact move in ellipses and rules out orbits that are square or oval .
5 All planets move in ellipses around their sun .
6 ‘ Planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ is more precise than ‘ Planets move in closed loops around the sun ’ , and is consequently more falsifiable .
7 Group 1 was to land at Hollevik on the island 's south shore , to clear a known defence point and villages a mile to a mile and a half from the town of South Vaagsö , and then move in support of Group 2 , which was to land just south of the town and capture it .
8 On behalf of the Liverpool , North Wales and Irish region , I move in support of this special report .
9 PageMaker also keeps track of all the bits of the galley so if a section is moved or deleted all the other portions move in sympathy .
10 ‘ These , ’ I cried , ‘ are inhabited by horned pygmies who move in herds , and who are old by the time they are seven ! ’
11 For a start , Mr Jencks , of Northwestern University , casts doubt on the idea that different kinds of social problems — unemployment , crime , teenage pregnancy , educational failure — move in lockstep .
12 Rory could hear the stamping , slapping feet move in time to the fiddles and accordions as they played a jig .
13 The music and flashing lights move in time , producing a moving blur of colours and patterns that dissolve and fade into each other But the Gyuto monks were a bit of a bore with their constant thudding chants of ‘ ohhm' .
14 The ambusher sprints ahead to find the place where he will hide in the leaves , while the chasers move in front of the driver and run along the branches trying to grab the monkey and chasing it towards the place where the ambusher sits hidden .
15 Laing added a third penalty and McCluskey scored under the posts after a perfect scissors move in midfield .
16 Selectors move in Wright direction
17 There are three possibilities ; people can be lost through death ( which may be a high proportion in an elderly congregation located in a retirement area ) , transfer out ( high in an old community due for demolition , or where people move in search of employment or as they are relocated or promoted ) , or reversion ( may be high where the social pressure is hostile to the church , or where church morale is at a low ebb ) .
18 A predictable consequence of long-term rising unemployment , unless there is a widespread economic decline , is that first men , and then families , move in search of work , usually leaving elderly people behind .
19 Only a minority of people move in retirement — most stay where they have always lived .
20 All eight move in prograde , low eccentricity orbits , of low inclination with respect to Jupiter 's equatorial plane .
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