Example sentences of "have be directed at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then much theoretical work has been directed at this short-sighted empiricism , uncovering the pattern of cultural or ideological assumptions that supported it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Education has been directed at the production of the rational , the free , the independent of mind , the dignified , in short , the autonomous human being . |
| 4 | Most attention has been directed at the in-migrants and out-migrants to the exclusion of a core of more or less stable groups . |
| 5 | Although most research in settlement geography has been directed at settlement systems , or the distribution of villages , it is also important to consider village development or planning at the micro-scale of design or general layout . |
| 6 | For nearly two decades public policy has been directed at supporting existing small businesses and encouraging the creation of new ones . |
| 7 | Very considerable theoretical effort has been directed at instabilities in passive resonator systems , of which the above is only a partial , necessarily distorted , summary { 9 } . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister 's threat appeared to seek a weakening of the opposition demands , but may also have been directed at hardline elements in the Communist Party reluctant to yield any further to the opposition . |
| 9 | No , no it was very much a green field area , and I think if they 'd have wanted to get bomb anywhere they 'd have been directed at Castle Bromwich , which were very much they were building Lancasters and Sterlings and they were very much the heart of the British bomber industry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had been hurt by the crude insults , deliberate distortions and sheer venom that had been directed at us . |
| 12 | Much criticism had been directed at van der Merwe , who captained South Africa on their last tour of England in 1965 , after the omission of Clive Rice and Jimmy Cook from the team for the World Cup and the Test in West Indies . |
| 13 | It was the first display of his own eidetic abilities I had ever witnessed ; before that all his efforts in this respect had been directed at infiltrating my internal visual world . |
| 14 | By some accounts fire had been directed at the camp by Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) forces — an accusation which the OLF denied . |
| 15 | Numerous criticisms have been directed at it from insides and outside feminism . |
| 16 | Restrictive measures have been directed at Third World manufacturers whose electronic and electrical products , garments , shoes , toys , sporting and household goods were said to be unfairly flooding vulnerable First World markets . |
| 17 | In retrospect , our attempts to prevent recurrence should , perhaps , have been directed at identifying and manipulating ( by increasing the amounts of inhibitors or decreasing the amounts of promotors ) nucleating factors that induce crystal , and thereby gall stone , formation from supersaturated bile . |
| 18 | The two most central criticisms , though , have been directed at the aggregate effects of such a method of election . |
| 19 | ‘ Massive efforts have been directed at expunging all trace of the invader and fortunately they have the funds and the expertise to do it . |