Example sentences of "[pron] be directed at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them are directed at girl readers , the assumption seeming to be either that boys have no adolescent problems or that they read only ‘ action ’ books . |
| 2 | The authority should advertise the fact that it is prepared to give talks and attend events which are directed at appealing to these groups . |
| 3 | The deviousness and deceitfulness of tobacco advertising , promotion and sponsorship activities which are directed at children lie in the fact that they tell them that one must be healthy and have lung function of 120 per cent . |
| 4 | There are a number of amendments to Schedule 5 which are directed at the same broad objective though they go somewhat further than the suggestions I have described . |
| 5 | A key feature of the battery of initiatives is that they have largely stemmed from a Human Resource Management approach which is directed at employees as individuals . |
| 6 | In the British version , which was directed at a younger age group ( 10–12 years ) with a lower smoking prevalence , the objective was to minimise or delay uptake . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ASEAN rejected the 1981 Soviet démarche , which was directed at ASEAN acceptance of the Heng Samrin regime in Kampuchea , despite the call in the same month by the Twenty-Sixth Soviet Party Congress for Asian participation in the settlement of regional disputes . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Research showed that West Germans were more concerned with technical reliability than good performance , and so advertising there was directed at technical features such as bodywork , engine power , braking performance , speed , petrol consumption and so on . |
| 11 | They are directed at the benefit of learners . |
| 12 | Here they are directed at the benefit of the teachers ' own understanding of their craft . |
| 13 | Individualised programmes , alternative activities and simplified worksheets , when they are directed at certain children can cut them off from their peers as effectively as if they had been withdrawn . |
| 14 | The implications of these general approaches to ontogenesis for the nature of the artefact become clearer when they are directed at a specific problem , the nature of play . |
| 15 | ‘ In the United Kingdom ’ shall include investment advertisements issued outside the UK if they are directed at persons in the UK otherwise than in a newspaper etc published and principally circulated outside the UK or broadcast on a media primarily aimed outside the UK . |
| 16 | There are certain adjectives or quasi-adjectives which make it rather explicit that they are directed at the relation between the entity of the noun phrase and its description . |
| 17 | It 's directed at somebody who did me over when I was young , ’ he waffles matter of factly . |
| 18 | It 's directed at somebody who did me over when I was young , ’ he waffles matter of factly . |
| 19 | Appraisal , then , is a conceptual evaluation based on a proper understanding of the ideas proposed , and it is directed at establishing a set of valid principles of general relevance . |
| 20 | James smiled at Barbara , and she found herself smiling back ; his charm was the kind that , while it is directed at you , makes you feel you are the only person in the world . |
| 21 | In part it is directed at particular features of the standard treatment — notably the assumption of an aggregate production function . |
| 22 | It is directed at the core of the transpor the general un er the er tee the union movement , which is unity thr throughout the workplace . |
| 23 | One was the simple fact that it was directed at and mediated through adolescent boys , whose conception of the significance of their own behaviour is notably dramatic . |
| 24 | It was directed at ministers and social workers , and it is believed that one Orkney social worker was invited to that seminar , as well as a Baptist minister who had helped to organise the summer camp on Rousay . |
| 25 | It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall . |
| 26 | He knew it was directed at him . |
| 27 | He was silent , but she could sense anger burning slowly inside him and wondered if it was directed at her . |
| 28 | Jenna could not help feeling hostility , but none of it was directed at Marguerite . |
| 29 | But even as fury blazed like an inferno within her , she knew it was directed at herself as much as at him . |