Example sentences of "directly [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the reporting accountant should have the power directly to request a firm 's balancestatement from the bank — this could be used prior to a ‘ spot check ’ ; |
| 2 | The biotechnology companies would then directly buy a licence for a particular technique rather than negotiating with individual universities . |
| 3 | The distinction between adjudicatory and regulatory tribunals is that the former are making a binding decision following a reference by a person aggrieved by a decision which has already been made , whereas the latter are directly applying a system of government regulation rather than supervising or reviewing the proper application of the system of government regulation . |
| 4 | None of these measures directly assesses a driver 's feelings of risk . |
| 5 | A ticket price directly affects a concert-goer . |
| 6 | As the country 's biggest industrial employer , he said , Sellafield directly employed a workforce of 7,000 people , last year putting £136 million into the area 's economy in wages and salaries alone . |
| 7 | A procedure on the other hand , is specifically intended to carry out a number of actions , some of which may affect program variables , but it does not directly return a result . |
| 8 | This observation is one which we have to make indirectly : by directly observing a thermometer , and inferring that the temperature is what the thermometer says it is . |
| 9 | This preference for speech tends to be based on a logocentric assumption that speech directly expresses a meaning or intention that its speaker ‘ has in mind ’ . |
| 10 | Pupils may be asked directly to describe a rule for predicting how many matches would be needed for any number of boxes , or they may instead be asked how many would be needed for , say , 500 boxes and then asked about their methods as referred to below . |
| 11 | because it subordinates one part of the sentence to another but does not directly establish a link with another sentence . |