Example sentences of "[not/n't] be directly [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The methodological problem arises because beliefs , attitudes , values and other so-called subjective states can not be directly inspected . |
| 3 | Sanitary facilities may be included in a demise where the building is amply provided with them or where the position of the lavatories and washrooms is such that access can not be directly obtained from the common parts . |
| 4 | Responses to controlled hypoglycaemia induced in a laboratory setting can not be directly applied to the clinical situation . |
| 5 | With mind all is opposite ; minds are not substantial , do not apparently obey physical laws , can not be directly observed or inspected , unless it is my own mind that is in question . |
| 6 | Then cosmologists began to revise their estimates of the percentage of the Universe 's mass made up by ‘ dark matter ’ which could not be directly observed — including black holes and pulsars . |
| 7 | Since the arrival of information can not be directly observed , it may be proxied by the observance of the trading activity stimulated by the information arrival . |
| 8 | Since no one knows what the myc product is , this idea can not be directly tested . |
| 9 | But a tutorial need not be directly connected with a production in rehearsal . |
| 10 | Unlike the doctor 's authority , scientific theories of sexual difference could not be directly challenged ; rather , women found ways of circumventing or reinterpreting them . |
| 11 | b , Transactivation by VP16-Myc N and Max103-VP16 together with Max or Myc N. VP16-Myc N and Max103-VP16 activities can not be directly compared as their relative expression levels are unknown and VP16-Myc N+Max is antagonized by Max+Max in cells ( see text ) . |
| 12 | The absence of a relationship between differences on the technical dimension and work satisfaction patterns in the case of the housewife can not be directly compared with the factory worker 's situation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The property lies within approximately 150 metres from this improvement but would not be directly affected . |
| 16 | Though the law is not entirely clear , it seems that the violence need not be directly inflicted . |
| 17 | A citizen could be arrested without a warrant under the Deer Act 1963 , the Town Gardens Protection Act 1863 , or the Public Stores Act 1875 for ‘ obliterating marks denoting that property in stores is HM property ’ , but he or she could not be directly apprehended for an indecent assault on a woman . |
| 18 | Whatever we are supposed to understand by a ‘ person ’ we are to believe that educating him will not be directly related to the roles and tasks he has to perform after his education is over . |
| 19 | Much of the earlier work was done on Mediterranean terraces and these , as well as many of the terraces in other areas , can not be directly related to Pleistocene events . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However , there are certain peripheral types of semantic constituent which can not be directly subjected to the test . |
| 24 | The second group consists of ‘ public goods ’ that can not be directly allocated to particular individuals ( e.g. , defence ) . |
| 25 | The techniques of applied econometrics could not be deployed upon a hypothesis in which most of the relevant variables could not be directly measured and in which the focus of attention was continually shifting sometimes leapfrogging was the problem , sometimes real wage resistance , sometimes a Marxian class struggle for shares in the national income , but at most times some miscellany of all three problems was present contemporaneously . |
| 26 | The relationship of settlements to cemeteries can be considered using the results of large-scale excavations as a control , and the actual distances between such features may act as a guide even when a relationship can not be directly inferred . |
| 27 | However , this explanation can not be directly linked with the popular pressure for a post-war full employment policy . |
| 28 | ‘ A significant shift in the predominant branch in the state apparatus , or of the relation between these branches , can not be directly established by the immediate exterior role of this branch , but is determined by the modification of the whole system of the state apparatus ’ ( Poulantzas 1969 ) . |
| 29 | Siegel ( 1972 ) reports that pre-exposure to a tone in rabbits leads to a loss of the OR ( evident as a decline in the likelihood of occurrence of an eye-opening response evoked by the novel tone ) but the latent inhibition that was also found can not be directly attributed to the loss of this aspect of the OR . |
| 30 | Critics also argue that , because statements made under the lobby rules mean that they can not be directly attributed to Mr Ingham , his colleagues or Government Ministers , they are less credible than if they had been made on the record . |