Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the opposite " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined . |
| 2 | Beautiful people are often surprisingly insecure , more so than those who fear they are not pretty or handsome enough to attract the opposite sex . |
| 3 | Why not try the opposite setting to the one you 've just used and see how the needles move ( or do n't ) in each direction ? |
| 4 | So definition of simple harmonic motion you find anything that 's moving so that the acceleration is always measured the opposite way |
| 5 | and always works the opposite way . |
| 6 | So acceleration is always working the opposite way to whichever way you 're measuring X and trying to pull it back . |
| 7 | Thus if we can categorize or anchor information , we can also do the opposite : we can particularize information and treat it as a special case , thereby negating , or criticizing , a strategy of categorization . |
| 8 | At least the rabbits wo n't know that Frank Cauldhame did what he did to them , the way a community of people knows what the baddies did to them , so that the revenge ends up having the opposite effect from that intended , inciting rather than squashing resistance . |
| 9 | Yet the fact of West European industrial growth also had the opposite effect too : these places were not drawn into the new scheme of things in exactly the same way or on exactly the same conditions as France , Britain , Belgium and Holland — the original members of the industrial club . |
| 10 | While men find sex can be a great relaxant , it often has the opposite effect on women . |
| 11 | For example , insisting on conditions that would in theory make the employment of women more likely often has the opposite effect . |
| 12 | Let us now assume the opposite case . |
| 13 | What is strange is that we often accept the opposite : that large benefits naturally carry with them large risks . |
| 14 | You have in your hands a book which starts clearly enough with a character trying to escape from his author and which has now reached the opposite pole with the real author ( myself trying to escape from his own character . |
| 15 | He conscientiously pinched the opposite fold of her sweet vulva , and fastened a second peg to her . |
| 16 | As you shoot the scene , you have to tread a tight-rope , avoiding the fault of holding a shot too long if the action seems to have dried up , while simultaneously avoiding the opposite fault of cutting shots too short just before something begins to happen . |
| 17 | If we now take the opposite extreme , that of a gas , we do not know the positions of atoms , merely their mean velocities , and the only relation we can obtain between load and displacement derives from the gas law from which we can obtain the " bulk modulus ' of the gas and this " modulus ' is entirely entropic in origin , no elastic forces being involved . |
| 18 | However , one may well draw the opposite lesson from modern science and art . |
| 19 | Levitt simply asserts the opposite — that low-cost operations are the stamp of corporate cultures pervaded by the ethos of quality . |
| 20 | ‘ Did you hear that Steve , they would n't say the opposite if it was raining . ’ |
| 21 | Some of them could be reversed by making the engine almost stop then run the opposite way . |
| 22 | The structure of this is interesting as over the last few years most software house have added default actions , verbs or options to their interface — Sierra have almost taken the opposite course by simplifying their system which now has a basic choice of some half a dozen actions . |
| 23 | we 're adding minus five , whoops switch round count the opposite way . |
| 24 | One of her students , for instance , had told her that the class struggle was an obsolete concept , and an eminent academic had put forward the view that relations between capitalist and socialist states were devoid of class content ( he had previously maintained the opposite ) . |
| 25 | Sometimes hearing a cycle of works by the same composer actually has the opposite effect , making one realise limitations in the music , but this is simply not the case with Brahms . |