Example sentences of "directly [verb] [prep] a " 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 | It was the possibility of directly profiting from a revival of Spanish overseas trade that brought prosperity to these same regions : to the ‘ companies ’ of Catalan , to the merchants of the Levante ports , and to the Basque shippers . |
| 3 | The relationship between States directly injured by a violation of international law and other States has been explored further by the International Law Commission in its work on State Responsibility . |
| 4 | But a tutorial need not be directly connected with a production in rehearsal . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But his personal experience of sea and ships is more directly reflected in a group of documentary adventure stories written with that special educational purpose that characterises most fiction for the young . |
| 7 | If the price is based on net assets , a reduction in assets should be directly reflected in a reduction in price . |
| 8 | The core definition of a biosensor is where a self-contained probe-like device is used with a biologically derived recognition layer directly apposed to a transducer element . |
| 9 | Keith Cardwell 's decision to move from the world of commercial photography into the more demanding , and typically less lucrative , area of documentary photography can be almost directly attributed to a TV series , a BBC 1 documentary called The Family . |
| 10 | Proceeds of the claim , less the legal costs , have been directly credited to a special reserve . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The large viewing window of the Nuclide Luminoscope® also allows the use of a 55 mm f/3·5 macro lens directly mounted on a camera body to take pictures of whole thin sections or slabs under CL . |
| 14 | Writing about the novel in 1 927 , Eliot stated that ‘ nearly every contemporary novel known to me is either directly affected by a study of psycho-analysis , or affected by the atmosphere created by psycho-analysis , or inspired by a desire to escape from psycho-analysis … |
| 15 | Mr. Collins said that any person whose interest are directly affected by a decision of a body acting in the public domain must ordinarily be given the opportunity of knowing what is alleged against him and of making representations to the decision taker . |
| 16 | The extracted nucleic acids from whole flies were treated with RNAse A for RNA elimination , then directly deposited on a membrane ( slot-blot ) before hybridization with either a nuclear probe ( DNA 45S ) or an mtDNA probe ( srRNA ) . |
| 17 | The force-carrying particles exchanged between matter particles are said to be virtual particles because , unlike " real " particles , they can not be directly detected by a particle detector . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Several major galleries now claim that they have ceased trading with Saatchi - ‘ I would n't sell him a napkin , ’ said one prominent figure in the New York art world — but since no one is prepared to go on the record with such an assertion , or to have their name directly linked to a quote , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that dealers and artists are hedging their bets . |
| 20 | Thus both A and B could become directly linked with a representation of stimulus X as shown in Fig 5.10(a) . |
| 21 | LIABILITY : CASE LAW ACCUMULATES Proving that loss was directly caused by a breach of auditing duty is likely to be difficult |
| 22 | The contractions of the gill could also be directly quantified with a photocell . |
| 23 | The inclusion of royal law within a law-code which is otherwise not directly ascribed to a king is more obviously apparent in another Merovingian law-book , associated with the east Frankish kingdom , the Lex Ribvaria , where the verb iubere , " to order " , is occasionally used . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At the time West Ham was little more to me than a name , most directly associated with a football team that had a reputation for style and steadfast support in spite of limited success on the field . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | All the systems considered above contain a cross-term , in which the rate of change of one variable is directly decreased by a term that is the product of two other variables . |
| 30 | Such cross-terms can not occur in a system that directly represents a chemical reaction , and the variables represent concentrations : the concentration of one chemical species can not be directly decreased by a process in which that chemical does not take part [ 36 ] . |