Example sentences of "not directed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not directed to the records , files , and occasional publications of those quasi-judicial organizations ( such as the Factory Inspectorate in the UK or the Federal Drug Administration in the US ) monitoring and regulating corporate and governmental crimes . |
| 2 | Another device of guestroom rhetoric was to ask questions into the air , not directed at anyone , which expected and received the answer sahha ! |
| 3 | Yet , thankfully , his leader 's rage was not directed at him , but at the conspiracy of Nadirpur and the French and British Governments to steal the arms shipment that was rightfully the property of Iran . |
| 4 | The question that is raised is whether the history of indiscriminate city bombing and the actual use of atomic bombs on cities has vitiated the prohibition on indiscriminate use of weapons , especially the use of weapons not directed at military targets or which inevitably involve disproportionate damage to civilians . |
| 5 | those which are not directed at a specific military objective ; |
| 6 | If the two eyes are not directed at the same object , double vision results . |
| 7 | I 've nothing against young people discovering the beauty of our national parks ( I myself am only 23 ) and my anger is not directed at the offenders themselves , but at the so-called leaders of the group . |
| 8 | Butler insists that a particular passion , like that for some particular food , say an apple pie , is not directed at self at all , but at some external object , such as the pie . |
| 9 | This statement is not directed at any one set of philosophers . |
| 10 | The situation contrasts with that in the United Kingdom where there is no constitutional limitation on treaty-making power , and in the United States where the constitutional amendments are not directed at treaty-making and are more broadly worded . |
| 11 | This epistemological criticism is not directed at her political intervention but at her recourse to structuralist account and emphasis on the capacities of capital rather than of class . |
| 12 | He informed Prime Minister Kosygin that the ZOPFAN proposal was ‘ not directed at anyone and no one is excluded ’ , that its essence lay in the recognition and harmonisation of the legal interests of all the parties in Southeast Asia , of both the countries actually located in the region and of other powers . |
| 13 | One Soviet writer argued in this vein that the EEC proposal was not directed at the neutralisation of Afghanistan at all but at hiding the ‘ undeclared war against the Afghan people ’ . |
| 14 | The contempt that narrowed his eyes and thinned his mouth was not directed at her , but at himself . |
| 15 | The comment was certainly not directed at Diana . |
| 16 | His cruel treatment of her in Act III , Scene I is not directed at her personally , but at the ruthlessness of Claudius ' power over her and treatment of her . |
| 17 | The rising , the most extensive popular movement between 1381 and the sixteenth century , was relatively limited in its aims and was certainly not directed at the overthrow of the social order . |
| 18 | In fact in Duru [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 2 the Court of Appeal thought that both charges in relation to the thing in action represented by the cheque and to the paper itself were to be upheld but the judges ' minds were not directed at this issue whether property must exist at the time of the obtaining . |
| 19 | Obiter the court said that the supply of the drug was not directed at the person of the accused . |
| 20 | In the context of the discussion , however , this disagreement is not treated as face-threatening : it is not directed at Brenda 's personal position but at a proposition ( that the existence of " halfcastes " has confused racial boundaries ) which she has articulated and which is now " up for grabs " . |
| 21 | Whenever the tension mounted , he defused it with a razor-edged comment , as often as not directed at himself , and so they were able to keep the rising tide of passion at bay . |
| 22 | Measuring for me is not directed toward geometric conclusions . |
| 23 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 24 | Referring to the third stage of negotiations between Israel and its neighbours , he warned that if the Arab negotiators continued to raise the question of the occupied territories " placing them at the centre of discussions … we shall know that their intentions are not directed towards peace " . |
| 25 | In particular , the single petal which here occupies the corner position is perpendicular , and not directed towards the centre of the work , as are all other petals in such a position . |
| 26 | Although these examples suggest that the French wars did not impoverish England , clearly the inflow of bullion was not directed into economic developments which increased the country 's productive capacity . |
| 27 | ( The later Warhol films , not directed by Andy himself , were in colour — as were the majority of his paintings and prints , after all . ) |
| 28 | Not directed by Sinn Fein but given public support by members of that party in the face of the atrocities they commit on men , women and children . |
| 29 | Leavisites , of course , claimed that they were committed to discussion , argument , the free play of mind ; in so far as they were , it was contained within the enclosing form of life , not directed against it , rather like arguments within Marxist-Leninist ideology . |
| 30 | we do not say that the Government has been defeated by the General Strike , for it was not directed against the Government . |