Example sentences of "directly or " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this was a drama , the story of the circumstances of Van Gogh 's life ; ‘ No attempt has been made , ’ wrote Meier-Graefe , ‘ to make a critical analysis of the pictures , which enter upon the scene only in so far as they concern the drama directly or indirectly . ’ |
| 2 | Plant pests are herbivores , eating foliage or sucking the sap , while predators are carnivorous and live by feeding on plants pests , directly or by laying their eggs among colonies so that their larvae have a ready supply of food . |
| 3 | And it would seem that physiologists — working within the common-sense assumptions that we experience the world because it impinges upon our bodies and that what we experience is what , directly or indirectly , impinges on our bodies in the form of transferred energy — have made considerable progress in explaining how ‘ the diversity of working produceth the diversity of experience ’ . |
| 4 | If there were simply no correlation whatsoever between the electrical output of a photo-electric cell and some other measure of light intensity directly or indirectly related to experience , it would not have been accepted as a way of measuring light intensity . |
| 5 | But to begin with this assumption is to by-pass , rather than explain , the mystery of perception as it presents itself to us if we assume that perception occurs because the perceived object impinges directly or indirectly upon the nervous system . |
| 6 | The questions it asks ( directly or indirectly ) are based on the regular enquiries received by various personnel at ACE from the wide variety of people who contact us , as suggested above . |
| 7 | Such romantic stories and ballads inspired many nineteenth-century ballets , directly or indirectly , from Petipa 's Raymonda , Massine 's Symphonie Fantastique and Lenau 's Don Juan ( to the tone poem by Strauss which was later to inspire an Ashton ballet ) to La Sonnambula ( Balanchine 's ballet based on Bellini 's opera which was based on a Walter Scott novel , see page 33 ) . |
| 8 | It is a matter of principle for the Hong Kong government that it should not seek to restrict the numbers leaving , whether directly or by influencing resettlement countries . |
| 9 | For the purpose of this article , ‘ pay ’ means the ordinary basic or minimum wage or salary and any other consideration , whether in cash or in kind , which the worker receives , directly or indirectly , in respect of his employment from his employer . ’ |
| 10 | Any rule directly or indirectly restricting solicitors ' freedom to undertake all the actions necessary for the preparation and presentation of cases will need the approval of both the Secretary of State and the Lord President of the Court of Session . |
| 11 | Also , even if a subject is never directly or completely ‘ freed ’ trom repression by its displacement , he or she may be empowered in other ways — for example , by being seen to be homophobic in a homophobic culture . |
| 12 | Media coverage now offers the possibility of enormously increased revenue from advertising either directly or indirectly through named sponsors . |
| 13 | Since that July day I have visited the City on numerous occasions … connected directly or indirectly to asking the City for help with fund-raising . |
| 14 | It needs to succeed , directly or indirectly , in ousting her . |
| 15 | The FMLN should ‘ publicly renounce all violent action that directly or indirectly affects the civilian population ’ , the accord said . |
| 16 | Yet even in its present state it accounted in 1987 , directly or indirectly , for 600,000 jobs and 2 per cent of gross domestic product . |
| 17 | International organizations like the World Bank , the Food and Agriculture Organization and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees are already involved in issues and situations which are either directly or indirectly ‘ environmental ’ and their workload will increase . |
| 18 | Much defence equipment comes directly or indirectly from America . |
| 19 | On the surface , the spat is over whether Jardines has broken a rule that forbids Hong Kong companies — directly or through subsidiaries — to buy their own shares . |
| 20 | In many areas , it took the full weight of Paisley 's authority , exercised either directly or through loyal supporters such as Gordon Cooke , then chairman of the North Antrim branch , to persuade the Protestant Unionists to dissolve in favour of the new organization . |
| 21 | Of course , at the end of the day they pay the same for them whether directly or through taxation , but if they pay for them directly , in return for service or as private insurance , then their incentives to work for them are greater and the economy benefits . |
| 22 | For some birth parents this would mean periodic up-dating of information from themselves to the adoptive family and from the latter to the birth parents directly or through the placement agency . |
| 23 | The Draft Directive has adopted the same 50 mg/litre nitrate standard as the Drinking Water Directive and proposes the designation of ‘ zones ’ that are ‘ vulnerable ’ to being polluted with nitrate up to 50 mg/litre , either directly or indirectly . |
| 24 | These sections do not cover any claim arising directly or indirectly from any death , injury , illness , expense or other liability attributable to Human Immunodeficiency Virus ( HIV ) and/or HIV related illness including Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ( AIDS ) and/or any Mutant derivative or variations thereof however caused . |
| 25 | These sections do not cover : — loss or destruction of or damage to any property whatsoever or any loss or expense whatsoever resulting or arising therefrom or any consequential loss directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to , by or arising from |
| 26 | arising directly or indirectly by , through or in connection with |
| 27 | arising directly or indirectly by , through or in connection with the carrying on of any trade business or profession ; |
| 28 | One of the first things Reagan did upon becoming president was to name Iran as an enemy of America and to ensure that no trade of any kind went on between the two countries , either directly or indirectly , imposing draconian penalties for anyone caught doing so . |
| 29 | To discriminate on the grounds of sex or race , either directly or indirectly , in relation to the admission of a pupil or group of pupils to a school is unlawful under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and Race Relations Act 1976 . |
| 30 | Taking advantage of this situation , Napoleon decided that the time had come to redraw the map of Italy , which , since 1815 , had been either directly or indirectly ruled by Austria . |