Example sentences of "be directly [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roots of the Bosnian mess precede the outbreak of combat there , and can be directly traced to Germany 's shortsighted insistence on recognition of Slovenia and Croatia without adequate consideration of what this might touch off . |
| 2 | When comparative efficiency is taken into account , such a degree of concentration can not be directly explained by Britain 's reliance on international trade , though its traditional international role had obviously played an important part in conditioning business horizons . |
| 3 | The number of phonemes correctly identified by RM1 can not be directly compared with HWIM 's figures since the phoneme lattice in HWIM essentially had a label for every phoneme in the system , given as a matrix of probability scores . |
| 4 | As with the western routes , few properties would be directly affected by routes . |
| 5 | The European Legislation Committee has begun to seek and to publish written evidence from specialist bodies likely to be directly affected by Commission proposals . |
| 6 | Though macrosomia can not be directly equated with morbidity , as long as maternal glycaemia during pregnancy can be shown to influence any aspect of fetal outcome the entity of gestational diabetes can not be dismissed out of hand . |
| 7 | If we look at , for example , Graeco-Roman mythology , we discover that the constellations in the night sky can be directly equated with gods , goddesses , heroes and other mythological notables . |
| 8 | Tests of the accuracy of radiocarbon dates against samples of wood dated by dendrochronology ( see below ) have shown that ‘ radiocarbon years ’ can not always be directly equated with calendar years ( because the amount of carbon 14 varies ) , so that a date of 4,100 BC in ‘ radiocarbon years ’ may actually be closer to a real date of 5,000 BC . |
| 9 | Thus , in HIV-1 patients with toxoplasmosis reactivation , germinal centre specific B cells of lymphoid nodes might be directly stimulated by toxoplasma antigens and then enter the bloodstream to reach other functional sites . |
| 10 | Renton 's suggestion of a further review of its role stems from the feeling in his department that the present system is an administrative duplication , that it does not allow the Minister to determine the policy framework , and that whenever a major funding issue arises the government has in any case to be directly involved at present . |
| 11 | This means that total withdrawals will be directly related to income and when plotted against income on a graph will be an upward-sloping line with a slope equal to the sum of the marginal propensity to save and the marginal propensity to import . |
| 12 | In Galloway , for example , the reduced breeding performance of golden eagles is considered to be directly related to afforestation due to loss of open moorland which is their main feeding area . |
| 13 | Some of these can be directly related to changes in the general social relations of cultural production . |
| 14 | However , the assumption that productivity must be directly related to biomass or chlorophyll is a fallacy . |
| 15 | However , it is harder to see why age should be directly related to poverty in the years after retirement . |
| 16 | My argument is that ideology is also a moral system , and that moral values must be directly related to ideas of human nature : what it is to be a person . |
| 17 | This brings to a close the examination of contexts in which the to and bare infinitives can be directly opposed in use with full verbs . |
| 18 | SynOptics Communications Inc has unveiled the first products based on its six-chip Asynchronous Transfer Moder chip set announced last October ( CI No 2,035 ) : the per-port price of the LattisCell switches ranges from under £1,500 to £2,000 , a half to a third of its competitors ' prices , says the company ; the Santa Clara company also has a technology partnership agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc to develop a 155Mbps asynchronous transfer mode SBus adaptor board that will be made and sold by SynOptics , enabling the LattisCell switches to be directly connected to Sparc systems running the Solaris Unix . |
| 19 | From his early study of German philosophy Marx inherited the idealist notion that the real world can not be directly grasped via sense data or empirical observation . |
| 20 | These can be directly studied in physiology and experimental psychology , but there is then the major problem of the variability of the kinds of work produced from these ( presumably ) common bases , in the evidence of anthropology and of history . |
| 21 | Drew claimed , with more than a little documented substantiation , to be directly descended from Peregrine White , the first white man to be born in America . |
| 22 | There are many ways in which solar energy may be directly exploited by man . |
| 23 | ApoR2 can also be directly obtained from overproduction of the protein in bacteria under limited-iron conditions . |
| 24 | Storage Technology Corp 's automated tape libraries can now be directly attached to Tandem Computers Inc NonStop Cyclone and CLX 800 boxes . |
| 25 | All forty two of them are threatening to leave local authority control and be directly financed from Westminster because they say they have n't got the money to do their jobs . |
| 26 | All forty two of them are threatening to leave local authority control and be directly financed from Westminster because they say they have n't got the money to do their jobs . |
| 27 | Out of some 50,000,000 deaths worldwide in 1990 46,500,000 were estimated to be directly associated with disease . |
| 28 | Before quotas , about 50 per cent of the food energy going in to our dairy cows was in the form of cereals : food that could be directly used by man , because in those days it was cost-effective to get as much milk as possible out of individual cows . |
| 29 | As well as material to be directly used by pupils , the box could include books and articles that may be helpful to the non-specialist teacher of history . |
| 30 | There is no reason why the intermediate stage should not be eliminated or why a search that starts with alphabetical index terms can not be directly translated into records at appropriate class numbers . |