Example sentences of "directly on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gravel can be laid directly on to the firm ground , but constant walking in wet weather will pound the gravel into the softened earth and you will , after a year or two , have to lay a fresh load to build up the path again . |
| 2 | All Souls was given a new roof oversailing the upper parapets , throwing water directly on to the lower aisle roofs . |
| 3 | It faced directly on to the wide main street of Wellingham , with its market cross , ornamental flower beds and grass verges ; in the daytime , a car park tangled up with bicycles and prams , on Saturdays and Fridays , with the stalls of a market . |
| 4 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 5 | In the past it has sometimes been difficult to avoid planting directly on to the marginal shelf , especially in pre-formed pools . |
| 6 | Third , attempts to map the eye movements directly on to the reported dreams ( in terms of direction of gaze , and so on ) have been dogged by the problem of actually measuring the position of the eyes using standard EEC equipment . |
| 7 | A computerised national criminal record system on the police national computer will enable police forces to enter information directly on to the national collection . |
| 8 | Nowhere is this more apparent than where access to farmland is most easily accomplished and is least organized — in those rural areas which abut directly on to the main centres of the population : the so-called ‘ urban fringe ’ . |