Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] directly [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of key portfolios were placed directly under the President 's supervision in the form of Ministries-delegate . |
| 2 | Other fruits and leaves were painted directly onto the glass . |
| 3 | Filters were added directly to a PCR reaction and amplification was with the M13 primers ( forward and reverse ) , and then with the nested set of primers T3 ( 5'-ATTAACCCTCACTAAAG-3 ’ ) and T7 ( 5'-AATACGACTCACTATAG-3' ) . |
| 4 | It seems that the slimes and waste gravel from the mill were discharged directly into the beck which obligingly carried the man made detritus downstream and depositing them in the less boisterous places causing silting and then , during heavy rain , flooding . |
| 5 | Extracts of 500 mg/ml of the flours of maize , rice , millet , and sorghum were applied directly to the nitrocellulose sheets irrespective of prolamin content . |
| 6 | Downstairs WCs were connected directly to the drains . |
| 7 | Following a further five minute incubation , the contents of the cuvette were transferred directly to a culture flask containing 4 mls of SDM-79 or Cunningham 's medium . |
| 8 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |
| 9 | Capital grants Under Irish GAAP , capital grants received prior to 1974 were credited directly to a capital grants reserve account included in other reserves . |
| 10 | The relationship is unusual in that Scrope 's men were set directly under the duke . |
| 11 | The relationship is unusual in that Scrope 's men were set directly under the duke . |
| 12 | The fact that the men on the Area Boards were appointed directly by the Minister ( and not by the Central Authority — though the Organising Committee and later the Central Authority were consulted ) meant that the Boards were something rather more than subsidiaries of the larger entity . |
| 13 | From April 1 , some 255 scientists and support staff were put directly under the control of Courtaulds operating businesses . |
| 14 | Just after releasing the torpedo five searchlights , two from the breakwaters and three from the Harbour were switched directly onto the aircraft . |
| 15 | Population figures were obtained directly from the practices ' computer systems . |
| 16 | The organ , powered by foot-pedals , was placed directly below the pulpit . |
| 17 | Their management was placed directly in the hands of USSR ministries . |
| 18 | The only let-downs are cabin styling which looks as if it was lifted directly from the Corolla and an overall lack of identity . |
| 19 | The proposal by the then second lieutenant was addressed directly to the Commander-in-Chief Middle East , as Stirling knew full well that ‘ going through channels ’ would be a total waste of time . |
| 20 | I ‘ m particularly concerned that the money was debited directly from the account with no authorisation from the council . |
| 21 | Young provided Whitbread with detailed clinical notes on the progress of his patients , their symptoms , the exact appearance of their various growths and the methods of treatment — the oil was applied directly to the tumour . |
| 22 | Previously , discharge from the chemical complex was pumped directly into the river Tees . |
| 23 | But they were the owners of the securities , and it was by their own mandate , which presumably they might have recalled , that payment was made directly to the beneficiary . |
| 24 | The soil pipe was connected directly into the drains and was open to the air at the top , well above the eaves of the house . |
| 25 | The general was drawn directly into the invasion of the Philippines and plans to invade Japan . |
| 26 | Its formation may have owed something to the traditional structure of the peasant commune ; its unity and authority were enhanced by the absence of firmly entrenched separate trade unions ; and its electoral procedure was drawn directly from the experience of the Shidlovsky Commission . |
| 27 | In order to meet these requirements , it was realised that some form of detector-operated system would be essential , and this led to the development of the zoned system in which open sprinklers were used , mounted vertically one above the other on a drop pipe and fed from a ‘ zone control valve ’ which was opened directly by the response of the detector to the fire . |
| 28 | The nationalised industries ' borrowing as a whole had , in fact , become part of the public sector borrowing requirement and , in order to tighten up the monetary control , all new capital for the electricity industry ( and other public sector industries ) from 1956 was raised directly by the Treasury , and then lent by them to the industry . |
| 29 | ‘ The customers all told us their decision was based directly on the price concession offered . |
| 30 | When Shell and UKOOA — representing all the major companies — appeared before the Select Committee , they were astonished that anyone should suggest that they , as operators of various North sea fields , could not be approached by any employee , regardless of whether that person was employed directly by a company or employed by a contractor . |