Example sentences of "to be directed at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forum would now use the information to ‘ press for changes in legislation to enable more money and resources to be directed at the problem , while at the same time doing all we can to enable local people to find local solutions ’ . |
| 2 | This reassurance , though commonly assumed to be directed at the British , was almost equally directed at Europe 's smaller countries . |
| 3 | With this increasingly active role which Highlander was playing in the civil rights movement , it was only a matter of time until the reactionary extremism , which the blacks had long been fighting against , began to be directed at Highlander itself . |
| 4 | Things began to improve in the nineteenth century , however , when more coordinated methods were employed , and for the first time , digging began to be directed at finding out about Pompeii , rather than making a profit . |
| 5 | They are also more likely to be directed at people below retirement age ; indeed , the latest challenge in micro-surgery appears to be successful operations on ever younger patients . |
| 6 | In order to maintain health , both personal and public , much energy has to be directed at maintaining an external environment which is as safe as possible , not only for the present but for future generations to inherit . |
| 7 | A contract which requires a supplier to close a NHS ward will occasion political comment which is likely to be directed at the Health Authority at least initially . |
| 8 | The crude satire seems to be directed at the fashionable protest singers of the time , who , while singing songs against the materialistic values of American society , are worried about the receipts from their concerts . |
| 9 | It has to be directed at providing jobs , for that is one of the two keys in what needs to be a two-pronged attack on the recession . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Last year , Sony Corp bought a licence to Apple Computer Inc 's AppleTalk network so that Macs could be networked with its News Unix workstations , and it has now taken the logical next step and its computer subsidiary will market Macs for attaching to networks of Sony workstations in Japan , with much of the business to be directed at use within the Sony group companies . |
| 12 | Moreover , even if particular impulses are not mainly directed at pleasure , the typical ones do seem to be directed at the occurrence of certain states of ourselves , so that even if not hedonistic they are egoistic . |
| 13 | Treatment has to be directed at this state of mind as much as to restoring body weight . |
| 14 | Questions about actions are defined as those which seek to establish facts ; questions which explicitly or implicitly seek to criticize individual officials are said to be directed at their conduct . |
| 15 | To her surprise , the gunfire did n't seem to be directed at them , and she wondered if the rebels and soldiers had finally got around to fighting each other directly . |
| 16 | Much of the activity of government officials appears to be directed at avoiding ‘ mistakes ’ . |
| 17 | As the canvas documents , including the notification of banding , will be issued by the Finance Department I would expect all the enquiries during December 1992 to April 1993 , and probably after April 1993 , to be directed at the Finance Department . |
| 18 | The state 's increasing insistence , for example , that what people study and how they study it are of government concern and to be directed at ends which a government finds acceptable is part of the character of our critical environment . |
| 19 | In remarks understood to be directed at members of the European Communities ( EC ) and the United States , whose differences over farm subsidies had contributed to the breakdown of the talks in December 1990 [ see pp. 37796 ; 37930 ] , Dunkel called for " political rhetoric " to " be complemented by political courage " . |
| 20 | But their anger appeared to be directed at the Renault rather than the Jaguar . |
| 21 | It is in fact directed against the protesters ' own parents — especially the father — and is intended to take the place of the infantile and adolescent reproaches and criticisms of the parental authority which have now come to be directed at each and any cultural equivalent of the father . |
| 22 | Even at the time when Dalby was taken to represent the law , it was not quite true to say that the act had to be directed at the victim , since the doctrine of transferred malice applies . |
| 23 | In Pagett ( 1983 ) 76 Cr App R 279 ( CA ) , where a girl was used as a shield by the accused ( see Chapter 2 ) , the court did not deal with the point that under Dalby the act had to be directed at the victim . |
| 24 | It seems to be directed at the SIB 's use of the term " indirect customer " ( which applies even where the intermediary is the customer ) and not SFA 's ( which does not ) . |
| 25 | Funds need to be directed at improving Cornish roads , communications and rail links . |
| 26 | ‘ We do n't have the details though — we do n't know if it might include the replacement of schools or whether it has to be directed at education in different ways . ’ |