Example sentences of "[noun] be directed at the " in BNC.

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1 The important point is that the words are directed at the trustee .
2 The leader of the three was still shouting , but now his curses were directed at the woman who was confronting him .
3 Where the earlier forms of corporal punishment were directed at the body of the convict , disciplinary punishment aimed , via the body , at the ‘ soul ’ of the offender .
4 Ordinary inquiry is directed at the efficient settlement of belief , so that error or ignorance will not interfere with our practical concerns .
5 Any small voltage fluctuations on the supply rails will adversely affect the amplifier , causing it to oscillate ( i.e. give out a signal , even when no sound is directed at the microphone ) .
6 When a sound is directed at the microphone , some or all of the l.e.d.s should flash .
7 Balkan aggression was directed at the Germans and Austrians for much the same reason that Polish nationalism was directed against the partitioning powers , but unlike the Poles , the Serbians and Bosnians were supported by the Russians .
8 ‘ I see nothing humorous in suggesting my query was directed at the waiter , and nothing funny in your eyeing him that way as if the implication were a consideration .
9 Their only disenchantment was directed at the weather .
10 In fact before the first year of this trial was completed , some 80 per cent of decision packages were approved almost automatically and resources were directed at the remaining 20 per cent of packages .
11 Her main line of criticism is directed at the members of that Catholic community , whose unscrupulous ways are created , she thinks , by their religion .
12 The conference portion is directed at the industry and investors as a step to standards .
13 His only real criticism was directed at the wastage of ammunition ; he felt that some of the gunners had simply blazed away instead of taking precise aim at a target .
14 Much criticism was directed at the original proposal to terminate the East Approach to Leith on Baileyfield Road , with no improvements for the King 's Road traffic light controlled junction at Portobello .
15 With hindsight it is tempting to ask if her outrage was directed at the Prince or the woman who held him in such thrall , Camilla Parker-Bowles .
16 The brunt of the assault was directed at the USA , but also singled out for criticism were the European Communities ( EC ) , Australia , Canada , Hong Kong , Indonesia , South Korea , Singapore and Thailand .
17 If the hint was directed at the boy , he seemed not to take it .
18 In RFS a parallel beam of light at a single frequency ( or energy ) from a tunable laser is directed at the atoms .
19 The fury of the critics was directed at the intellectual poet who wrote deliberately like a simpleton in the Lyrical Ballads and the Poems of 1807 .
20 Although such overtures to work the mines were directed at the Lord of the Manor , really at this time the landowner was not it , a proper legal position to let out the veins on his land where these Carried the Royal Minerals , gold and silver .
21 At present , the misdeclaration penalty is directed at the trader whose VAT return contains significant inaccuracies — whether deliberately or otherwise .
22 The other curse was directed at the committee members of the local Working Men 's Club when they banned my father , on the pretext of his epilepsy , but really because he always won at cards and was n't keen to give people a chance to win their money back .
23 In a sense the development of such petitions is of far greater interest to the ecclesiastical historian in respect of its consequences rather than its origins ; for what this system entailed was public cognizance , and a public memory , of grievances ; when these complaints were directed at the church , parliament inevitably served to institutionalize and to unify countless discontents , and thus to provide kings and others with ideas , excuses and encouragement for actions against the church which might otherwise have remained unrealized .
24 Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson said : ‘ No abusive remarks were directed at the police officer .
25 Allen ( 1983 ) argued that provided treatment is directed at the underlying cause , most leg ulcers will heal spontaneously , which experience has proved to be true .
26 In one experiment , aggressive behaviour was very much more common among the autocratic group than the democratic group , but none of the aggression or hostility was directed at the leader himself .
27 His protest was directed at the midsummer 's day four-mile ‘ exclusion zone ’ at Stonehenge , imposed by Salisbury District Council and confirmed by the Home Secretary .
28 Most protest was directed at the government 's failure to pay salaries , overdue for several weeks .
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