Example sentences of "[vb past] directly [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this level , the power of the Roman catholic church bore directly on the institutions of government . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The screw worked in a screw guide bolted directly to the column . |
| 5 | Some of the changes stemmed directly from the wartime period , others from the greater material prosperity of the 1920s . |
| 6 | By October , when the administration 's Operations Sub-Group on Terrorism met in the White House Situation Room , the target list had been whittled down to one , Fawaz Younis , whom the CIA described as ‘ a key player in the back-street world of terrorism … who reported directly to the leadership of the Shiite Amal militia ’ . |
| 7 | The JMCs had no power of their own , except persuasion , but reported directly to the State Security Council ( SSC ) , formerly presided over by P. W. Botha , which was considered by some to have become the de facto government where the real decisions affecting the country were taken . |
| 8 | Sun Life appointed a relocation officer at executive level who reported directly to the company 's general manager . |
| 9 | They reported directly to the ruler they represented , often using their own cyphers : it was quite possible for neither the foreign nor the war minister ever to see their reports . |
| 10 | They had denied , in the negative side of their theory , that the part of the body entered directly into the experience , as the place of the sensation ; they had to supply an account to take the place of this ‘ natural ’ view of the matter . |
| 11 | Therefore , counter-indemnities relating to death or personal injury suffered by the indemnifier were void under s 2(1) , without the need to consider s 4 , and all counter-indemnities relating to other loss or damage suffered directly by the indemnifier were subject to the reasonableness test under s 2(2) , and/or s 4 if the indemnifier was a consumer . |
| 12 | Connected with the markets of Spain , Europe , and , later , America , where Catalan agents gauged the rates of profit and sold the cargoes of Catalan ships , the merchants and shippers of Barcelona suffered directly from the crises of bad trade and war . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I heard a bang and looked out to see a car parked directly opposite the house go away up the street . |
| 14 | He added to the estates received directly from the Crown by acquiring the estates of landowners indebted to Jews . |
| 15 | Finance for major projects is provided by loans negotiated directly with the Bank . |
| 16 | The West Coast museum negotiated directly with the Hermitage , and agreed to pay a rental fee of around $300,000 . |
| 17 | Covent Garden , Drury Lane , and Her Majesty 's Theatres were independent of the Lord Chamberlain 's authority , to which other theatres were subject , deriving their licence to operate from letters patent granted directly by the sovereign . |
| 18 | He came directly to the parlour shared by Astorre , John and Tobie , followed by servants attempting to rid him of his wet cloak . |
| 19 | Li Yuan turned back , frowning , then , trusting to instinct , came directly to the point . |
| 20 | In London , the Greater London Council had similar responsibilities to the metropolitan counties , but the Metropolitan Police came directly under the Home Secretary , while through the Inner London Education Authority — which also included representatives from the Inner London Boroughs — it was directly involved in education within inner London . |
| 21 | But after 1936 — a turning point for Poland — only the French continued to supply finance ( over 2,600 million francs ) and roughly half of the trade credits and finance that flowed through the economy came directly from the state . |
| 22 | Much of the bad publicity came directly from the philistinism of the tabloid press . |
| 23 | So the silhouette of the Dalek actually came directly from the shape of a person sitting down in a chair . |
| 24 | Strangely , the tracks came directly from the lough ; there seemed to be no tracks going into the lough . |
| 25 | The bomb exploded directly beneath the northbound lanes of the Edgware Road flyover , destroying supports . |
| 26 | He appealed directly to the pieds noirs and the army , using rhetoric that combined intimidating references to the authority of the state with tendentious but effective arguments to reassure them about the " real " aim of his policy . |
| 27 | Vern Schuppan , not content with building 50 road-going Porsche 962s , will run two rebodied , all-synthetic 962s at Le Mans this year with chassis lifted directly from the road car . |
| 28 | Preparations are then made in the same way as for the embryos recovered directly from the mother . |
| 29 | The calls come via three sources : personal requests made by members of the public at the station 's enquiry desk ; telephone calls made directly to the station ; and messages relayed from BRC , the central communications network . |
| 30 | The only other items you need to record are debits or credits made directly by the bank to your account . |