Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] direct " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter we shall be dealing with files that have been designed to make direct record retrieval as easy and rapid as possible . |
| 2 | Care Assistants are employed to provide direct support to the residents with such matters as toileting , dressing , washing and so on , supervised by a Senior Care Assistant . |
| 3 | But even they had been known to take direct action when driven to desperation . |
| 4 | However in a parliamentary debate last week , members of the House of Lords , reflecting concerns expressed by many university vice-chancellors , claimed that the offending clause could be used to justify direct intervention by the government in university administration — and was , as such , an infringement on academic freedom . |
| 5 | Moreover , members may thereby be enabled to avoid direct responsibility for poor results arising from decisions taken in committee . |
| 6 | Some of the latter were portable so that a current of air could be allowed to play direct on to the patients ' faces . |
| 7 | Just as an unknown resistance can be determined using direct meters as described in section 3.8 , so too can an unknown impedance be determined using a.c. meters . |
| 8 | They were the first state concerns to be given this go-ahead since July 1989 , although private companies had from January 1991 been allowed to make direct payments of foreign commercial debt . |
| 9 | These findings were considered to have direct implications for the development of depression . |
| 10 | Total bile salts in the venous effluent were measured using direct spectofluorometry . |
| 11 | I should have thought that , in the new found spirit of glasnost in the Tory Government , with public officials being required to give direct answers , the Prime Minister would hasten to give me a reply . |
| 12 | An analysis already exists of the migration patterns of 1974 and it is intended to make direct comparisons between this and the 1983 results . |
| 13 | To merge routing and cell-switch functions , it is claimed to perform direct switching of Asynchronous Transfer Mode traffic , as well as Ethernet , Token Ring and FDDI traffic . |
| 14 | The yield to maturity spread method of evaluating FRNs is designed to allow direct comparison between FRNs and fixed-rate bonds . |
| 15 | Separate software modules are required to handle direct and sequential retrieval , using a great deal of space in main storage ; |
| 16 | He was empowered to introduce direct presidential rule " in regions not obeying the [ Moldavian ] constitution " . |
| 17 | At the outset , it was decided to use direct observation of how clients spent their time as the principal measure of effectiveness . |
| 18 | He was going to report direct to Rakovsky in Moscow . |
| 19 | As a result of HCIMA 's presentation to the Tourism Intergroup of the European Parliament in Strasbourg in November , the Association was invited to have direct representation on the board of management of the European Foundation for the Accredition of Hotelschools ( EFAH ) . |
| 20 | A resolution was passed condemning direct action as a means of bringing about the Social Democratic Commonwealth , while the importance of support for the cooperative movement was recognised in spite of doubts on the advisability of its political involvement . |