Example sentences of "in direct [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he was going to fight this because it was in direct conflict to Government policy . |
| 2 | And what he was saying seemed to be in direct conflict to the hurtful reasons for their marriage he had given her on the drawbridge yesterday . |
| 3 | I 'm partial to a nice pun , and BT 's image began to soar in direct ratio to the growing number of commercials on the air . |
| 4 | In 1294–7 , it has been calculated , the laity and clergy together yielded £280,000 in direct taxes to the king . |
| 5 | Negotiators from the House of Representatives and the Senate agreed to use deficit financing to provide $6,300 million in direct assistance to the stricken states and $4,800 million in loans . |
| 6 | The sub-contractor only receives payment in direct relationship to his productivity , thus ’ no work , no earnings ’ . |
| 7 | All the off-farm employment was of a rural nature and resulted in direct benefit to the farm . |
| 8 | Those movements are in direct contrast to the stronger , vicious and spacious pointes of the Black Queen and her pawns . |
| 9 | I am emphasising the existential quality of dramatic playing here because it is in direct contrast to the expectations of acting behaviour to be found in some educational institutions . |
| 10 | The Sex Pistols apparently instant recognition was in direct contrast to their original plan to build a new Bay City Rollers . |
| 11 | The cold winter of early 1956 produced an exceptional influx , but neither of the winters of 1946/47 nor 1962/63 did so , in direct contrast to Whooper Swans . |
| 12 | Even when on top of his game the intensity of his desire often makes him appear downcast as he strides down the fairways — in direct contrast to his compatriot Seve Ballesteros , who has every emotion etched on his face . |
| 13 | In direct contrast to this emphasis on the surface features of language , Chomsky ( 1959 ) argued that the complexity of grammar indicated that language users have a sophisticated understanding of a rule system and that any description must be concerned with a speaker 's knowledge of these rules . |
| 14 | In direct contrast to all this hectic , hedonistic activity , over at the Marquee , The Red House Painters are propping up Belly with weary tenderness . |
| 15 | Texas Instruments has been in Japan 25 years , has around $1,000m in Japan-based revenues and — in direct contrast to Intel Corp — is a significant manufacturing presence , with four plants employing 3,500 in manufacturing plus another 2,000 in sales and administrative jobs . |
| 16 | He was reluctant to exercise authority over his subordinate generals , in direct contrast to the German General Liman von Sanders , in overall command of the Turkish forces . |
| 17 | Spencer Stuart 's business in London and Manchester owes much of its success to its Britishness , to the fact that its consultants are at home in even the most conservative Boardrooms ; the firm works in direct contrast to the style apparently adopted by Korn/Ferry , for instance . |
| 18 | In this manner certain aspects , at least , of the process of permissive change are presented as having been positive and beneficial , in direct contrast to the view of the conservative-historians . |
| 19 | This is in direct contrast to the department 's duty to provide assistance to her . ’ |
| 20 | This is in direct contrast to the European studies where there are much greater variations within the elderly population in terms of income levels . |
| 21 | In direct contrast to the world-system perspective he starts from ‘ the primacy of the national dimension ’ . |
| 22 | This is in direct contrast to what we might expect to follow according to the inductivist view , namely , that in order to establish the truth of some problematic observation statement we appeal to more secure observation statements , and perhaps laws derived inductively from them , but not to theory . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's fun and warm and amusing — in direct contrast to James . |
| 24 | Examples of this sort are in direct contrast to what has been , in effect , the subconscious attitude of most geologists for the last hundred or more years . |
| 25 | ‘ Lotta did inform me , ’ she returned , her cool voice in direct contrast to her flushed complexion . |
| 26 | In this way it is in direct contrast to the earlier work and highlights the difficulty of such juxtapositions for the viewer faced with a difference of genre and historical location . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , Ellie , you do know , ’ he said quietly , in direct contrast to her stormy denial , ‘ and I can either believe that the letters were used merely as a passport for something else , or you are indeed a calculating little bitch intent only on causing pain . ’ |
| 28 | I wish to call attention to the need for regional government in England , and I beg to move , ’ That this House deplores the excessive centralisation of government in the United Kingdom since 1979 and the failure to decentralise and devolve power to the nations and regions of the United Kingdom ; notes that this is in direct contrast to the general trend towards decentralisation evidence elsewhere in Europe ; furthermore deplores the severe cuts in the regional assistance budget since 1979 together with the failure to enact dynamic and effective regional economic policies which would have promoted balanced economic growth and prosperity ; expresses alarm at the regional divisions which continue to characterise the United Kingdom economy ; and considers that the creation of a regional tier of government in the English regions as well as national devolution to Scotland and Wales is now vital to the United Kingdom 's future economic and political well-being . |
| 29 | The North Korean spokesman , An Byong Su , the vice-chairman of the Committee for the Reunification of the Fatherland , echoed this view , suggesting that both delegations had displayed attitudes in direct contrast to the confrontational perspectives of the past . |
| 30 | Darwin 's conclusion then , in direct contrast to that of his even more orthodox Captain , was that the Galapagos finches could only be varieties , and were therefore not worth collecting carefully . |