Example sentences of "directed at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordinary inquiry is directed at the efficient settlement of belief , so that error or ignorance will not interfere with our practical concerns . |
| 2 | The scope was extended in an ‘ enhanced ’ Urban Programme , which included economic and environmental as well as social projects , and was specifically directed at the inner urban areas where the problems were most severe . |
| 3 | The principal one was that conversion and growth were particularly directed at the clerical-religious élite , where the annual retreat system formed the annual or biennial centre of the individual spiritual life . |
| 4 | Before pursuing this theme , attention should be directed at the other issue arising from Brockway 's declaration , the abolitionist stance , which eschews efforts to improve life within prisons in favour of seeking to be entirely rid of the prison system . |
| 5 | But is the consciousness of a beautiful object properly conceived as consisting in two distinct things , consciousness and the object , standing in a certain relation ( of the one being directed at the other ) which makes no difference to what each of them is in itself ? |
| 6 | Lhote , who had already established a certain independent reputation , mixed cautiously in Cubist circles , but from 1911 onwards was generally referred to as a Cubist , although his somewhat academic style often gained him exemption from the unfavourable criticism directed at the other painters . |
| 7 | His will be a heavier , larger box weighing 15 to 20 pounds , capable to 4,000 colours and directed at the general commercial technical CAD/CAM marketplaces . |
| 8 | In fact before the first year of this trial was completed , some 80 per cent of decision packages were approved almost automatically and resources were directed at the remaining 20 per cent of packages . |
| 9 | The British Gas flotation , in November 1986 , raised almost £6 billion and , like the BT offer , was directed at the private shareholders . |
| 10 | In this environment the production team will be looking for skills directed at the various processes used by the organization . |
| 11 | Her rise to prominence was the culmination of a career which combined a feminist commitment to challenging male sexual behaviour , with traditional beliefs in moralizing philanthropy directed at the poor . |
| 12 | I looked at several texts directed at the upper half of secondary schools and roughly the same categories emerged as for social studies . |
| 13 | But it seems clear that this one bears the marks of defeat and despair , and of a reprisal directed at the liberal England which has let the violator down . |
| 14 | But whatever criticisms might be directed at the Japanese judgment , it remains important as the one case in which a court has ruled on the legality of actual use of nuclear weapons . |
| 15 | Their primary concern was the possibility that the decline of American influence in Southeast Asia could still precipitate an American-sponsored military pact of ASEAN states directed at the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | Yes , I think my my comments , particularly directed at the regional and local level , where I think for quite understandable reasons , namely the very rapid development of new environmental organisations , er , in a lot of areas , er , we have found that the environmental groups have not er , initially been working together . |
| 17 | ‘ The only thing I ever have nightmares about , ’ Andy says , his gaze still directed at the unseeable loch , his eyes still wide . |
| 18 | The two most central criticisms , though , have been directed at the aggregate effects of such a method of election . |
| 19 | The crux of the criticism directed at the Labour Party , in particular , is that while it provided food and medical help it did little to try to persuade the British government to end its policy of non-intervention towards Spain . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There is no doubt , however , that it was in the 1860s and 1870s that there was a real extension of propaganda for birth control directed at the middle class . |
| 22 | The local authority had provided half the capital for the dual purpose church and the salary for a youth leader , so the church had obligations to maintain the club open despite continuous vandalism and verbal abuse directed at the elderly people , who became understandably reluctant to attend church . |
| 23 | The second approach , directed at the fertilised egg , would affect all the cells of the growing embryo , including the sex cells eventually . |
| 24 | Three mutations directed at the C-helix face of the protein have also been analysed . |
| 25 | His harshest words are in fact directed at the Serbian Army . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Allen ( 1983 ) argued that provided treatment is directed at the underlying cause , most leg ulcers will heal spontaneously , which experience has proved to be true . |
| 28 | Crude advertising discrimination has tended to be directed at the socialist rather than social-democratic press , thus exempting the mass-circulation , pro-Labour papers that have flourished ; … small circulation publications further to the left which have tended to be poor advertising media , judged by the commercial criterion employed by advertising agencies , have probably also suffered as a consequence of overt political discrimination . |
| 29 | The gap between provision and need is too great to be bridged rapidly and many shortcomings have continued to be revealed by the considerable glare of publicity directed at the local authority services for the handicapped . |
| 30 | Procedures of both sorts can be found in any type or size of organisation , for filling in forms , processing goods , inputting data to a computer system etc , and those directed at the continual development and implementation of policy , or the preservation of the mode of business operation . |