Example sentences of "[verb] directly [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of the songs in Get Ready ! area specially written for the course , and will appeal directly to the interests of children of this age . |
| 2 | Artists and journalists are not so dependent upon their colleagues ' approval but can appeal directly to the laity . |
| 3 | His ‘ we ’ sometimes hinted at the nationalist ‘ we ’ of Britain , in a way which would appeal directly to the sentiments of the audience . |
| 4 | Mr Cameron-Webb , on whose syndicates investors such as tennis star Virginia Wade lost millions of pounds , can still appeal directly to the House of Lords for a fresh hearing . |
| 5 | The separate companies were originally owned directly by the Institute . |
| 6 | Finally , the court could act directly in the interests of the victims and instruct the corporation to compensate them . |
| 7 | In nature the cycle is practically closed , with vegetable and animal wastes returning directly to the soil where they have lived . |
| 8 | Instead of returning directly to the river , she made a complete tour of the upper storey of the house . |
| 9 | At this level , the power of the Roman catholic church bore directly on the institutions of government . |
| 10 | Nigel Lawson , the longest-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer in the post-1979 Conservative government , is quoted as saying : ‘ Too high a PSBR requires either that the government borrow heavily from the banks-which adds directly to the money supply , or failing this , that it borrows from individuals and institutions , but at ever increasing rates of interest , which place an unacceptable squeeze on the private sector ’ ( in Cairncross and Keeley 1981 , p. 96 ) . |
| 11 | Too high a PSBR requires either that the government borrow heavily from the banks — which adds directly to the money supply — or , failing this , that it borrows from individuals and institutions , but at ever-increasing rates of interest , which place an unacceptable squeeze on the private sector . ’ |
| 12 | During a winch launch the potential load on the glider is at a maximum near the top of the launch , when the pull of the cable adds directly to the weight of the glider . |
| 13 | It placed the funding of higher education in the hands of two statutory bodies , a Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) ( replacing the University Grants Committee ) , and a Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council ( PCFC ) to administer funds for higher education provided directly by the Secretary of State . |
| 14 | As they are about competence at work , they will include not only competences relating directly to the funeral service but also competences to do with working relationships or health and safety . |
| 15 | Thus in Britain , for example , each of the police organizations — Police Federation , Superintendents ' Association and Association of Chief Police Officers — will ‘ go on record ’ not only on matters relating directly to the police , but also on more general questions of law and order in society . |
| 16 | The observation that the affinity of L703766 is insensitive to the chemical nature of the side chain at position 197 , whereas CP 96345 binding is substantially affected by substitution at this position ( Fig. 2 a ) strongly suggests that His197 interacts directly with the benzhydryl moiety of CP 96345 . |
| 17 | The conclusion that His197 interacts directly with the benzhydryl of CP 96345 suggests that other nearby residues within the transmembrane domain should also interact with the antagonist . |
| 18 | The user , seated in front of a video display unit ( VDU ) , interacts directly with the computer , inspecting the results produced by one request before deciding on the next . |
| 19 | Taylor differentiates between question negotiation through a human intermediary and the self-help situation whereby the user interacts directly with the library or catalogue system . |
| 20 | Each repressor molecule interacts directly with the bases through a pair of antiparallel β -strands inserted into the major groove of B-form DNA . |
| 21 | Of the pelagic animals , some fish browse directly upon the plankton , as do the baleen whales , which concentrate upon the euphausiids and copepods . |
| 22 | Outdoors , he continued to carry the picture while walking bipedally , and he headed directly for the gorilla quarters which were located near the adult-ape house on a hill behind the language lab . |
| 23 | The street culture of working-class youth was often attacked directly by the police ; and changes in the education system after the introduction of state elementary education after 1870 also had its effects . |
| 24 | The train had no corridor , each compartment having doors opening directly to the outside . |
| 25 | This building has an entrance opening directly into the farmyard and many of the farm 's activities , such as manure collection , would have been concentrated in this area . |
| 26 | The screw worked in a screw guide bolted directly to the column . |
| 27 | The malt is send directly to the ship by overhead conveyor from the silo block . |
| 28 | Xerox Corp has introduced LiveBoard , a five-foot wide electronic blackboard — Americans call it a chalkboard : the LiveBoard , which sells for $49,500 , uses a wireless pen that writes directly on the surface , creating an electronic document that can be shared through ordinary telephone lines for simultaneous viewing and editing from remote locations ; it includes a 67 ’ interactive surface , 80486 processor and software that enables users to edit , colour , annotate , erase , save , retrieve and print whatever they have drawn on the LiveBoard . |
| 29 | The investigation of anything happening directly on the river would normally be the responsibility of the River Police , at least until such time as it might lead to inquiries inland . |
| 30 | Some of the changes stemmed directly from the wartime period , others from the greater material prosperity of the 1920s . |