Example sentences of "[been] directed [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This system of power and control has primarily been directed towards the protection of property and to prevent assaults on the individual , but only in very specific situations . |
| 2 | These evaluation studies on the use of various media have been directed towards the educational process involved in a specific learning/ teaching situation . |
| 3 | Throughout this chapter the emphasis has been directed towards the determinants and consequences of bargaining structure since this is a concept which has been accorded a considerable role in explaining a number of important collective bargaining phenomena both within and between national industrial relations systems . |
| 4 | The bulk of that analysis has , however , been directed towards the schools . |
| 5 | The concluding comments thus far have been directed towards the application and content of natural justice and fairness seeing both of these terms against an adjudicative framework . |
| 6 | Within a few moments I had been directed to the Gasthof zur Alte Post and installed myself in a tiny room which was to cost about £12 for the night , including breakfast . |
| 7 | Although the original idea had been directed to the whole of the diocese it was felt that any pilot project should be confined to a smaller area . |
| 8 | Too much emphasis in previous work has been directed to the role of strategy in explaining the fortunes of the Labour Party . |
| 9 | Similarly , a good deal of attention has been directed to the important and topical issues of workers ' participation in enterprise decision-making , along with ‘ international ’ studies concerned with the operation and labour relations implications of multinational corporations . |
| 10 | Intensive research has been directed to the ways in which early communities adapted to and utilized their environments . |
| 11 | Veblen took pleasure in representing that in a society as dedicated to practical efficiency as the United States emulation should have been directed to the pursuit of objectives as conspicuously useless and therefore wasteful as gold or precious stones . |
| 12 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 13 | Here there may arise a conflict between two principles , one that the court will not imply a term unless it is one which reasonable men would obviously have agreed to if their minds had been directed to the point , the other that a contract should if possible be interpreted in such a way as to achieve fairness between the parties … mistake is a much more difficult problem … [ than fraud or partiality ] . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | IN the past , attention has been focused on the problems of the chronology of civil defences and less thought has been directed at the reasons for these defences and why some settlements were chosen in preference to others . |
| 16 | Education has been directed at the production of the rational , the free , the independent of mind , the dignified , in short , the autonomous human being . |
| 17 | Most attention has been directed at the in-migrants and out-migrants to the exclusion of a core of more or less stable groups . |
| 18 | There are criticisms , but in fact the majority of criticisms seem to have been directed at the faults in the administrative procedures , as opposed to problems with the syllabus or assessment procedures . |
| 19 | By some accounts fire had been directed at the camp by Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) forces — an accusation which the OLF denied . |
| 20 | The two most central criticisms , though , have been directed at the aggregate effects of such a method of election . |
| 21 | Rural areas have suffered badly from labour shortages as manpower has been directed into the war effort |
| 22 | But while Pygmalion ( 1938 ) had been directed by the reliable Asquith , Pascal himself took over the reins on Major Barbara ( 1941 ) . |
| 23 | The second methodological objection has been directed against the proposition developed in this book that economic equilibrium in the Soviet economy is established on the basis of conflict between two antagonistic laws , the law of value and the law of primitive socialist accumulation which means denial that there is a single regulator of the whole system . |
| 24 | Such a brief survey can not do full justice to the theoretical ramifications of ‘ market economics ’ , but it should be sufficient to indicate how the new doctrine has been directed against the very basis of demand management as practised between 1950 and the early 1970s [ Walters , 1978 ] . |
| 25 | The engagement which followed was hardly even a skirmish , but it had been directed against the king , and in December , after Lancaster had moved to the midlands to gather reinforcements , the king wrote to the City of London complaining that Lancaster intended to attack him . |
| 26 | The evidence of these obstacles and resistances is plain enough , not only in the slow , uncertain and frequently subverted extension of the right to vote which I have already indicated , but in the bitter hostility and violence that has always been directed against the attempts of ordinary citizens and workers to organize themselves in trade unions , cooperatives , community action groups , and similar bodies . |
| 27 | However , the criticism that has been directed against the conflict between the principle of specialization ( that efficiency is increased by specialization ) and the principle of unity of command ( that efficiency is enhanced by having members in a determinate hierarchy of authority receive orders from no more than one person ) are relevant to a political view of organizations . |