Example sentences of "was directed at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His protest was directed at the midsummer 's day four-mile ‘ exclusion zone ’ at Stonehenge , imposed by Salisbury District Council and confirmed by the Home Secretary . |
| 2 | His only real criticism was directed at the wastage of ammunition ; he felt that some of the gunners had simply blazed away instead of taking precise aim at a target . |
| 3 | Their only disenchantment was directed at the weather . |
| 4 | Balkan aggression was directed at the Germans and Austrians for much the same reason that Polish nationalism was directed against the partitioning powers , but unlike the Poles , the Serbians and Bosnians were supported by the Russians . |
| 5 | If the hint was directed at the boy , he seemed not to take it . |
| 6 | The fury of the critics was directed at the intellectual poet who wrote deliberately like a simpleton in the Lyrical Ballads and the Poems of 1807 . |
| 7 | The other curse was directed at the committee members of the local Working Men 's Club when they banned my father , on the pretext of his epilepsy , but really because he always won at cards and was n't keen to give people a chance to win their money back . |
| 8 | The British Gas flotation , in November 1986 , raised almost £6 billion and , like the BT offer , was directed at the private shareholders . |
| 9 | John Major 's onslaught on the pessimists who ‘ talk Britain down ’ was directed at the Labour Party leadership , who he did not mention by name . |
| 10 | ‘ My desire was for punishment , not revenge , and was directed at the officers who gave the orders — perhaps because of the interviews . ’ |
| 11 | With hindsight it is tempting to ask if her outrage was directed at the Prince or the woman who held him in such thrall , Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 12 | The proportion of absentee canons at each is a good indicator of royal exploitation , which obviously was directed at the better endowed prebends . |
| 13 | The separation of the mode of discovery and the mode of justification does enable the inductivists to evade that part of the criticism levelled at them in this chapter which was directed at the claim that science starts with observation . |
| 14 | In one experiment , aggressive behaviour was very much more common among the autocratic group than the democratic group , but none of the aggression or hostility was directed at the leader himself . |
| 15 | His maiden speech , ostensibly a conventional attack on placemen , was directed at the prince regent who , provoked by Bennet 's championship of his estranged wife , labelled him ‘ factious ’ . |
| 16 | Much criticism was directed at the original proposal to terminate the East Approach to Leith on Baileyfield Road , with no improvements for the King 's Road traffic light controlled junction at Portobello . |
| 17 | Most protest was directed at the government 's failure to pay salaries , overdue for several weeks . |
| 18 | The brunt of the assault was directed at the USA , but also singled out for criticism were the European Communities ( EC ) , Australia , Canada , Hong Kong , Indonesia , South Korea , Singapore and Thailand . |
| 19 | ‘ I see nothing humorous in suggesting my query was directed at the waiter , and nothing funny in your eyeing him that way as if the implication were a consideration . |