Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be directly [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Responses to controlled hypoglycaemia induced in a laboratory setting can not be directly applied to the clinical situation . |
| 3 | The second group consists of ‘ public goods ’ that can not be directly allocated to particular individuals ( e.g. , defence ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , there are certain peripheral types of semantic constituent which can not be directly subjected to the test . |