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 . |