Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [adv] the opposite " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there are countervailing pressures since , at the same time , broader educational needs are pulling in exactly the opposite direction and require teachers to operate in the extended dimension in many ways . |
| 2 | Foucault notes that , at the same time as the Annales school and others were constructing a history according to the long durée , in the history of science , philosophy , and literature , attention was turning in exactly the opposite direction , that is away from vast unities towards phenomena of rupture , discontinuity , displacement and transformation , towards different temporalities as well as architectonic unities . |
| 3 | rotates a vector so that it 's pointing in completely the opposite |
| 4 | Evidence of my identity — why I , presumably an Englishman , since my relative is , should independently choose to visit Vienna at the same time — a time , incidentally , when most people with any sense are travelling in precisely the opposite direction … |
| 5 | Our results suggest that our subjects were thinking in precisely the opposite way ( at least on their second repetition ) . |