Example sentences of "[adv] be directed at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have all been directed at just one target : the Shah . |
| 2 | For all that , however , friction has been generated , not least within the service where criticism has personally been directed at Cruickshank — and not from health workers and professionals but the very business people brought into the service whom one would have expected to sympathise more with his modus operandi . |
| 3 | He said that guerrilla attacks would henceforth be directed at military targets , state companies and economic installations among others . |
| 4 | The proportion of absentee canons at each is a good indicator of royal exploitation , which obviously was directed at the better endowed prebends . |
| 5 | And she realized that the anger had not been directed at her at all . |
| 6 | Studies on the enforcement of laws prohibiting certain corporate activities in America ( McCormick 1977 ; Seymour 1973 ) , Canada ( Goff and Reasons 1978 ; Snider 1978 ) , and England ( Carson 1970 ) all suggest that even in that minority of cases where criminalization occurs , the legal sanctions imposed fail to act as a deterrent because they are trifling fines rather than imprisonment and normally are directed at smaller , relatively less victimizing , corporations . |
| 7 | those which employ a method or means of combat which can not be directed at a specific military objective ; or |
| 8 | He noted the rapid , undignified scramble by which the culprit extricated himself from the ropes on the river path , followed by ominous little trickles of loose earth ; and the exaggerated dignity with which he compensated as soon as he was clear , his slender back turned upon the voice that blasted him out of danger , his crest self-consciously reared in affected disregard of sounds which could not possibly be directed at him . |
| 9 | ‘ Very few local access roads have been treated along their length ; where through traffic needs to be discouraged , treatment has mainly been directed at the access points to the local residential area . |
| 10 | We loaded the first two into the trailer , and were heading a few yards further on to pick up a third canister when we noticed that the enemy fire was now being directed at our part of the cornfield . |
| 11 | Modules could then be directed at issues which teachers themselves see as of central concern . |
| 12 | Such assiduous attention has never been directed at this market before . |
| 13 | Marketing efforts should therefore be directed at one or two such potential key customers . |