adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be closely/directly/strongly etc linked
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Our economy is inextricably linked with America’s.
directly below
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The kitchen is directly below her bedroom.
directly proportional
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The fee charged by the realtor is directly proportional to the price of the property.
directly responsible
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Cabinet members are directly responsible to the President.
directly/indirectly related
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illnesses which are directly related to poverty
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
comparable
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This figure is directly comparable with those reported from other parts of Britain.
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The explanations, being of differing character, are not directly comparable .
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The scar tissue with which animals seal their wounds is not directly comparable to the callus tissue of plants.
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In consequence the definitions used in table 3.3 are not directly comparable with their procedures.
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Hence, different experiments may not be directly comparable , and there may similarly be difficulties of comparison between experiment and theory.
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No group was directly comparable in 1961; but by 1976 the Thomson group was strong in all sectors.
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They're directly comparable with personal laser printer speeds, while offering far more versatility in what can be printed.
concerned
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With the particular merits and demerits of these proposals I am not here directly concerned .
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It is directly concerned with individuals, with their minds and with their own way of looking at things.
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You will find your professional abilities to be in constant demand and you will be directly concerned with the provision of services.
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It is likely to occur to an individual directly concerned with the problem.
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The majority of blacks are working class and many black organizations are directly concerned with improving their class situation.
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On a more general level, the past was often implied in works which were not directly concerned with portraying it.
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The directly concerned populations are invariably viewed as passive recipients of plans.
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That is, it is not directly concerned with material gain; delinquency centring on vandalism or violence is an obvious example.
elected
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A total of 667 candidates fielded by 17 political parties contested the 225 directly elected seats in the 325-member Assembly.
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It also established a 150-member National Assembly elected from among the members of eight directly elected regional councils.
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Five directly elected deputies are sent to the National Assembly in Paris and three indirectly elected members to the Senate.
proportional
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Again, the increase is not directly proportional to the blocking factor.
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Hence a current flows; the current is directly proportional to the PO2 in the sample. 25.
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The usefulness of most Web sites is directly proportional to the benefits it offers to the people who visit it.
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The voltage induced in the pickup coil by this waveform is directly proportional to the rate of change of magnetic induction.
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This luminescence is measured and is directly proportional to the number of trapped electrons, and thus to the total radiation dose.
relevant
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In its emphasis on institutional culture it is directly relevant to the pursuit of equal opportunities.
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The intricacies of the alteration itself, begun in 1980, are not directly relevant here.
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The second issue in Exparte Handscomb is, however, directly relevant to our decision.
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All this detail is directly relevant to the fishing.
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The research itself was laboratory based, although directly relevant to academic obstetrics.
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How data are input is directly relevant to the way the same information is retrieved from the system.
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Most directly relevant in this context, however, were Spemann's experiments with two-cell salamander embryos.
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The safer approach is to start with that evidence which is directly relevant .
responsible
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Well, perhaps not directly responsible .
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It is directly responsible for 35,000 deaths from lung cancer and twice this number from other diseases every year.
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The constitution also made military leaders directly responsible to the emperor, allowing them to bypass the cabinet.
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Severing the umbilical cord between landlords and peasants vastly increased the proportion of the population for which the centre was directly responsible .
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In some places, women have been directly responsible for its introduction, whilst in others feminist ideas have influenced the law-makers.
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Sender of message and person responsible for delay in clearance will be held directly responsible for possible deaths of thousands.
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They are frequently directly responsible for its execution.
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Woodrow Wilson held them directly responsible for the First World War23 and his successors have accumulated a catalogue of complaints.
■ VERB
affect
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By the outbreak of the revolution in December 1989, only about seventy villages had been directly affected by rural systematization.
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They directly affect the entirety of social relations in different societies.
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This means that the fate of the body does not, in fact, directly affect the inheritance of the offspring.
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Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
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The latter does not usually directly affect the defendant's pocket as he will be insured.
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Our college education is going to directly affect our future.
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Now we want you to add your views to future Plans, whether or not you are directly affected by the proposals.
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Caffeine also directly affects many parts of the body by attaching to adenosine receptors found outside the brain.
apply
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Makeup had been applied directly to the mask; his lips were rendered huge, clown-like.
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Interesting word use; a personal, exciting message; information that applies directly to them.
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These are more effective than shampoos because they are applied directly to the scalp and left on for longer.
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The remedy can even be made into a paste and applied directly to the sting.
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It can be applied directly on to a stripped wooden surface without the need for primer.
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This he proceeded to apply directly to the process of recruitment.
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This analysis applies directly to generalization tests for acquired equivalence of the sort depicted in Table 5.1.
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Responses to controlled hypoglycaemia induced in a laboratory setting can not be directly applied to the clinical situation.
come
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Their inputs come directly from the retina.
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The animal had come directly and deliberately to the raft, and spent a minute or two investigating us closely.
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Much of the bad publicity came directly from the philistinism of the tabloid press.
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They came directly from hospitals or drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and, in a few cases, from prison.
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Twenty years ago more than three quarters of Imperial's total income came directly from government in the form of a grant.
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Some jobseekers come directly to him.
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The most effective source of heat recommended comes directly from the Maker.
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The money comes directly from the investment-banking firm, and indirectly from the investors to whom that firm sells the bonds.
connect
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The cistern of the close-coupled design sits on top of the pan and is connected directly to it.
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It can also connect directly via an Internetstyle network connection.
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The engines of the rocket do not apply a force directly to his body as he is not connected directly to them.
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It was the first time a person directly connected to the $ 5. 8 billion Metro Rail project was criminally charged.
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There are several factors which directly connect postmodernism and the new mode of economic regulation.
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He says they have to photograph issues not connected directly with the rally, perhaps the environment or wildlife.
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Only a small charge directly connected to the detonator exploded.
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Your social worker is available to discuss any worries you have, even if they are not directly connected with your child.
deal
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They might have to deal directly with the country's ethnic and class divisions.
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Often, everyone deals directly with the leader, who can make most decisions on the spot.
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There are a few works by scholars which deal directly with aspects of my subject.
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He was now dealing directly with his mother and his feelings, rather then beating up other children.
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It does not deal directly with possession of weapons, nor with the legitimacy of resort to war in the first place.
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With such access, a manager can deal directly with a key decision maker or find out what is really happening.
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However, most travel agents do not deal directly with these companies.
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As early as 1821, the first state law dealing directly with abortion was enacted by the Connecticut Legislature.
elect
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Executive power is vested in the President, who is directly elected for a five-year term.
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The only federal officials to be elected directly by the citizens themselves were the members of the House of Representatives.
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Clearly, members of the second chamber would not be as accountable as those directly elected to the Commons.
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About a dozen services were transferred to the directly elected London boroughs.
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All departmental governors would be directly elected .
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Mr Tung must maintain momentum towards democratic reforms, increasing the number of directly elected representatives in the territory's legislature.
go
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If the exact location of the incident is known the team members go directly to it.
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They went directly as their mother must have known they all would go: mother turtle, or Mother Nature.
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She raced back to the toilet, went directly to the wash-hand basin used by her ... it had gone!
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The money generated by Pemex, both in profits and taxes, goes directly to the federal government.
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He went directly to the radio above the navigation table.
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However some instructors may want to go directly to Chapter 26.
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This meant that any Gascon appealing against the verdict of one of the sub-seneschals could not go directly to Paris.
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In the former it is superfluous since the reader can go directly from character to meaning.
involve
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It contains allegations which do not directly involve the third defendant.
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That access is also central to patterns of trade that do not directly involve the United States.
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There is obviously little room for the school to be directly involved in curriculum development at any level.
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Proponents say the program can directly involve middle-class church members in the lives and struggles of the poor.
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A smaller and smaller part of the population is directly involved in industrial manufacture.
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About 25 percent of these are New Economy companies, with only five involved directly in optics.
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Why is the government directly involved in providing defence, schools, and health services?
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Asking parents to be directly involved in managing schools is like saying consumers should collectively manage an automobile factory.
lead
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The rest he divided, some by the shore road, others by the causeway that led directly to the wharf.
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And building it leads directly to the issue of management systems.
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So technology that builds the boats leads directly to biological adaptation and evolution.
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Both plays led directly to Dallas touchdowns, which led directly to the outcome.
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This does not lead directly to higher prices, but the burden has inpart been passed on to the consumer in reduced variety.
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The 800 number led directly to central reservations -- normally a toll call.
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Sometimes the decision to buy itself leads directly to one particular type of credit.
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Sometimes trusting the impulse leads directly to brilliance.
link
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Heart attacks and lung cancer are directly linked with cigarette smoking.
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The second phase also provides upgraded services for 200 to 300 research facilities directly linked to this backbone.
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The collapse was not directly linked to the motor car side, but it threatened the cars' future.
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Things in a system are intertwined, linked directly or indirectly into a common fate.
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The brick-making operations were often directly linked with the railway, as for instance at Whittlesea, near Peterborough.
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Dialogue also gives readers an interesting-sounding, firsthand account of information directly linked to your subject.
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Needless to say you can link directly to the vendor's Web site from the listings.
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This tale gives symbolic expression to these inner experiences directly linked to the mother.
look
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It is probably best found by looking directly between Achernar to the one side and Lepus to the other.
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Her eyes questioning, my mother looks directly at me.
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Commoners were discouraged from looking directly at any part of his person other than his feet.
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They did not look directly at each other, not straight into the eyes anyway.
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For a moment, she was looking directly out of the picture.
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At one point, Blue thinks that he is looking directly at him and ducks out of the way.
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One needs to look directly for the seeds of potential attitudinal positions.
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It was polarized; so that Gaal could look directly upon the blazing star above.
relate
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The only restriction being that a condition must directly relate to the site and must be reasonable.
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These results on the local stability of the steady state can be related directly to the existence of periodic solutions.
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But whether they were related directly to the main body of the puzzle was not yet clear.
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But it is an indispensable beginning-a beginning directly related in women to specific and intelligible changes in their bodies and their lives.
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Price is directly related to size, and comparisons should always be made by the m 2 rather than simply between individual rugs.
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Producers must receive a higher price to produce these more costly units. 7 Price and quantity supplied are directly related .
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Of these, only cost structure directly relates to financial control; the remaining factors cover non-financial and external issues.
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The activity of state medical boards is directly related to their independence and financial backing, Winn said.
report
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The newly created position will report directly to Black.
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Communication Sun Life appointed a relocation officer at executive level who reported directly to the company's general manager.
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In addition, two small staff groups, data processing and personnel, and the legal counsel reported directly to the president.
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He will report directly to Mr Kinnock.
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He reports directly to State Street president Ralph Verni.
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Located in the Cabinet Office, he reports directly to the Prime Minister.
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The opportunist, though he liked to claim that he reported directly to John Gutfreund, had a boss.
speak
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Why do people not just speak directly and say what they mean?
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This smallest of lawyers speaks directly , quickly.
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Later she spoke directly to Rachel.
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Telephone a few days later and ask to speak directly with the director, using the techniques described above.
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Although they never spoke directly of Lachlan, each knew the other's mind; though not as well as she believed.
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Dole spoke directly about his age, saying 73 years of life are not a liability.
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There are a variety of ways of defeating a proposal other than directly speaking against it.
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This is, however, a book that speaks directly to the home cook looking for new challenges and tastes.
work
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A specific objective is that this new body will work directly with the local enterprise companies.
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Between eight and twelve people work directly under me.
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Five years ago, increasingly concerned about the environment, he decided to work directly for an environmental group.
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Ten staffers work directly for the Dodgers in planning community relations and coordinating this year's team-wide efforts.
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Indeed, working directly with consultants proves invaluable in gaining access to high-quality morbidity data.
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More than two hundred thousand of its seven hundred thousand residents worked directly in manufacturing.
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There are a number of independent pressure groups in the United Kingdom working directly on behalf of consumers.
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Do we need a few sharp analysts working directly for Rice and the top group?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Have you noticed how he never looks directly at you?
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Mike and his wife sat directly behind us.
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New evidence directly linked Nathanson to the killing.
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The new law won't affect us directly .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cindy experienced directly what it meant to coach and advise, and saw that it worked.
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Frankly, he did not suppose Adam had had anything directly to do with this at all.
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If the outlet is directly over the pipe, simply cut the pipe to length and push it over the outlet connection.
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It also provided some of the strongest evidence to date that Sellafield did directly and routinely harm people's health.
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It prescribes, directly for them, a rule of evidence not to be departed from.
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The 800 number led directly to central reservations -- normally a toll call.
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When asked directly what were their visions of Howdendyke's future, interviewees made fairly consistent replies.