Example sentences of "to be directly [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 In the Alpha or Theta frequency , the brain is able to be directly influenced by the electrical emission .
2 The agreement , between conservatives , moderates and liberals , calls for 40 per cent of the legislature to be directly elected by 1997 , and 60 per cent by 2001 .
3 A third Employment Act ( 1988 ) removed various closed shop immunities , extended the number of union officials to be directly elected , now by postal ballot , and gave legal protection to members who suffered ‘ unjustified ’ discipline by a union ( e.g. for refusing to support industrial action ) .
4 Mr. Michael Latham presented a Bill to abolish the General Synod of the Church of England , on a date to be appointed ; to provide for the creation of a Church of England Assembly , consisting of a house of all diocesan , suffragan and assistant bishops , and a joint house of clergy and laity , to be directly elected by all Church of England clergy and lay persons on parochial electoral rolls ; to make provision for the Diocese of Sodor and Man ; to empower the Assembly to decide on all appropriate matters , except those within the legal responsibilities of the Church Commissioners , without further reference to Parliament ; to provide for the election of new bishops by members of the house of bishops , saving the right of final approval of the chosen candidate by the Crown ; to abolish the Ecclesiastical Committee ; to abolish the automatic places of bishops in the House of Lords ; to permit ordained clergy of the Church of England , with the consent of a diocesan bishop , to seek election to the House of Commons ; and for connected purposes :
5 The 1980 Constitution , which was put into effect in March 1981 [ see pp. 30619-20 ; 30931 ] , provided for the re-establishment , effective 1989 , of the bi-cameral National Congress , consisting of a Senate of 38 elected and nine appointed members , all of whom were to serve an eight-year term , and a Chamber of Deputies whose 120 members were to be directly elected for a four-year term .
6 Delegates endorsed wide-ranging changes , including the replacement of the party 's Marxist ideology by a commitment to " democratic socialism " , and plans for the president and legislature to be directly elected by universal secret ballot , and for a revised constitution which would guarantee freedom of expression , permit the formation of political parties , and end the MPLA-PT 's control over the armed forces .
7 Martin Lee , an outspoken critic of China and a proponent of full democracy for the territory , had called for half the Legco seats to be directly elected by 1995 .
8 Frei , replacing Andrés Zaldívar , became the first party leader in the PDC 's 34-year history to be directly elected to the post in a vote involving all party members .
9 In addition , the legislature was to be altered from the existing bicameral system [ see pp. 38626-27 ] to a unicameral system , whereby the People 's Great Hural was to be directly elected by all citizens over 25 years old .
10 It is also possible for financial institutions to be directly authorised by the SIB , and there are also channels through which non-financial companies that carry out investment business that is incidental to their main activity ( e.g. Treasury departments of large companies ) to be directly authorised by the SIB .
11 It is also possible for financial institutions to be directly authorised by the SIB , and there are also channels through which non-financial companies that carry out investment business that is incidental to their main activity ( e.g. Treasury departments of large companies ) to be directly authorised by the SIB .
12 They are also of interest in enabling the demographic profile of countries to be directly compared .
13 None of the allies , however , wants to be directly involved .
14 The epic of human redemption was now recast as a domestic tragedy between the Father and the Son , in which the Devil , and incidentally the Holy Spirit , do not seem to be directly involved .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 The senate was to have 60 members : 11 were to be directly appointed by the Prime Minister , or Taoiseach , and 49 by election .
18 A further 25 seats to the 75-member Council were to be directly appointed by the Amir , Shaikh Jabir al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah .
19 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 .
20 The carvers were unlikely to be directly connected with the building of the church or the carpenters employed but would have been commissioned separately to provide these embellishments .
21 To our knowledge , atk is the first member of the human src family of oncogenes , which encode intracellular protein tyrosine kinases , to be directly implicated in causing a human genetic disease .
22 Whilst noting the developments in human rights since the unbanning of political organizations in February 1990 , Amnesty expressed its concern at the number of killings in which security force members appeared to be directly implicated but where the security forces failed to take appropriate action .
23 These features seem to be directly related to the theory of non-representative democracy .
24 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 .
25 The views of the teachers tended to be directly related to how involved they were in managing a department and thus how involved they were in spending capitation .
26 Since money is seen as one component of total wealth , we can expect the demand for money to be directly related to total wealth so long as money is regarded as a ‘ normal good ’ by wealth-holders. ( b ) Rates of return on financial assets ( R ) .
27 I was told that they receive three meals a day and a very small amount of payment , although this did not appear to be directly related to the amount of work they did .
28 Bowman resigned soon afterwards [ see above ] , but contrary to initial press speculation his departure did not seem to be directly related to the Belmont affair .
29 The use of the microcomputer is to be shown to be directly related to the curriculum and to enhance pupils ' learning , thus the project must be curriculum-based and not restricted to pupils ' use of the library for general work .
30 Since the ‘ Keynesian ’ sees no reason to expect money incomes to be directly affected by the increase in the money supply , we can assume that the transactions and precautionary demands remain unchanged at first .
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