Example sentences of "directly [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halliday and Kurzhals ( 1976 ) describe the value of specialist techniques for the child who ‘ learns the simple travel techniques of trailing in unfamiliar places , squaring off directly to go to a designated place , using the cross bar techniques when away from other children on a playground and retrieving dropped objects . |
| 2 | Indeed , even where homophobia is directly connected with a disturbing repression and/or neurosis , the actual psychic dislocation involved may be very effectively offset by the political and cultural gains of homophobic displacement . |
| 3 | Proceeds of the claim , less the legal costs , have been directly credited to a special reserve . |
| 4 | Another problem is that each IR or Raman band of each compound has its own characteristic intensity ; concentrations of different compounds can not be directly compared by a simple comparison of relative intensities of bands in a mixture . |
| 5 | There have been long and fierce arguments , inside television , as to whether , when a play is ‘ directly based on a real-life case ’ , there should be further signals , indicating divergence from the expected norm . |
| 6 | It is then claimed that a great variety of fundamental facts concerning the structure and social organization of the society can be directly inferred from a close analysis of " the kinship system " in this verbal sense . |
| 7 | But the circumstances of its failure , and the manoeuvrings of politicians and judges which accompanied that failure , combined to produce a calamity which went far beyond the collapse of a doomed policy , for the failure directly resulted in a deep distrust of the judicial system . |
| 8 | Ortega promised that at the next congress , scheduled for 1995 , the DN would be elected by individual votes directly cast in a secret ballot and that a woman would be elected to the leadership . |
| 9 | This former lover seemed a willing participant in providing this story but of much more concern are the occasions when former associates , not directly associated with a sordid murder case , are resurrected by the press for exhibition . |
| 10 | For more theoretical work on the marriage relationship and how far marriage is at the root of the oppression of women , readers should refer to the work of Christine Delphy — a French radical feminist — whose work has recently been collected together in Close to Home : a materialist analysis of women 's oppression ( Delphy , 1984 ) ; her work has been directly criticised from a socialist perspective by Michele Barrett and Mary McIntosh ( Barrett and McIntosh , 1979 ) . |
| 11 | Paradoxically , the arguments in favour of higher taxes which brought the euphoria to an end have also been directly strengthened by a growing feeling of confidence that the recession is over and the start of a recovery is imminent , so that the economy can now stand some tougher treatment from the Chancellor . |
| 12 | Under the Constitution of December 1983 executive power is held by the President , who is directly elected for a five-year term , while legislative power is vested in the unicameral Legislative Assembly ( which replaced the National Constituent Assembly in March 1985 ) with 60 members similarly elected for a three-year term . |
| 13 | Executive power is held by the President , also directly elected for a five-year term , assisted by two elected Vice-Presidents and an appointed Cabinet . |
| 14 | Most of the 244 members of the Rajya Sabha are indirectly elected by the state assemblies ( one-third being replaced every two years ) while all but two of the 544-members of the Lok Sabha are directly elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage . |
| 15 | Under the 1980 Constitution executive power is vested in the President , who is directly elected for a five-year term . |
| 16 | Under the 1966 Constitution the republic has an executive President and a National Congress consisting of a 99-member Chamber of Deputies and a 30-member Senate , the President and the Congress being directly elected for a five-year term . |
| 17 | Legislative power is vested in the unicameral 50-seat House of Representatives , comprising of 36 directly elected for a five-year term , five chiefs elected by the Assembly of Chiefs , eight non-voting nominated members and the Attorney General . |
| 18 | Executive power is vested in the President , who is directly elected for a five-year term . |
| 19 | The legislature is the 40-member National Assembly , of whom 34 are directly elected for a five-year term ( with four specially elected members and two ex officio ) ; 31 of the directly elected seats are currently held by the ruling Botswana Democratic Party and three by the Botswana National Front . |
| 20 | Legislative power is vested in the unicameral National Assembly , 112 of whose members are directly elected for a five-year term ; the President can also appoint an unlimited number of deputies to the Assembly . |
| 21 | Under the amended Constitution approved in 1983 , an executive President is directly elected for a five-year term , as is a unicameral 67-member Legislative Assembly . |
| 22 | Under the 1968 Constitution ( a new constitution is in preparation ) an executive President is directly elected for a five-year term . |
| 23 | Under the Constitution which came into effect in 1980 , an executive President is directly elected for a five-year term , and appoints the Council of Ministers . |
| 24 | Under the 1987 Constitution an executive President was elected by the 51-member National Assembly which itself was directly elected for a five-year term . |
| 25 | Under the 1961 Constitution an executive President is directly elected for a five-year term , as are the 49-member Senate and 196-member Chamber of Deputies which together make up the National Congress . |
| 26 | Most of the 244 members of the Rajya Sabha are indirectly elected by the state assemblies ( one-third being replaced every two years ) while all but two of the 545-members of the Lok Sabha are directly elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage . |
| 27 | The 1949 Constitution established Costa Rica as a democratic state with an executive President directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 28 | There is an executive President and a Congress consisting of a 114-member Senate and a 199-member House of Representatives , the President and Congress being directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 29 | The 1980 Constitution , which was put into effect in March 1981 [ see pp. 30619-20 ; 30931 ] , provided for the re-establishment , effective 1989 , of the bi-cameral National Congress , consisting of a Senate of 38 elected and nine appointed members , all of whom were to serve an eight-year term , and a Chamber of Deputies whose 120 members were to be directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 30 | Under the 1924 Constitution the Republic has an executive President and a National Congress consisting of a 120-member Chamber of Deputies and a 20-member Senate , President and Congress being directly elected for a four-year term . |