Example sentences of "[pron] can be directly [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Inhabitants also suspect that the area has a case history of health problems which can be directly related to the pollution of the creek .
2 The method consists in extrapolating from concrete relations those properties which can be directly subsumed under these higher order abstractions .
3 Where the sediments are fine-grained the leaves form fossils of exquisite beauty , preserving even the finest veins , which can be directly compared with the leaves of their living relatives .
4 The real wage rate is not a variable which can be directly negotiated in the bargaining process .
5 But the nuclear power-station operators in both Britain and abroad have also begun to look much more seriously at a clear alternative to reprocessing : the storage of the spent fuel until it can be directly disposed of in a special dump .
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