Example sentences of "direct at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides the particular passions or impulses directed at objects other than pleasure , a human being has ; more general desire that he should enjoy as much pleasure or happiness as possible , during his life as a whole , which is as much as to say , a desire that the totality of his impulse ; directed at objects other than his own pleasure should receive as much satisfaction as possible . |
| 2 | Besides the particular passions or impulses directed at objects other than pleasure , a human being has ; more general desire that he should enjoy as much pleasure or happiness as possible , during his life as a whole , which is as much as to say , a desire that the totality of his impulse ; directed at objects other than his own pleasure should receive as much satisfaction as possible . |
| 3 | 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 } . |
| 4 | But how can imperatives function as anything other than instructions directed at others ( perhaps also himself ) by an individual with status as a commander ? |
| 5 | The Hague Rules embodied in the 1924 Brus-sels Convention on Bills of Lading contain no express internationality requirement at all , though clearly directed at contracts for the carriage of goods by sea from one State to another , a point made explicit by the Visby amendments . |
| 6 | Their booklet directed at parents of prospective pupils said ; |
| 7 | So although the law is mainly directed at shopkeepers , it could also be applied to anyone who sells or gives a young person a sniffable product . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | Its bombs almost invariably devastate towns and property where Protestants are in the majority and its shootings are directed at members of the security forces , who are mainly Protestant . |
| 11 | Clients would arrive with specific problems , often of a financial nature , but what they received was questioning directed at matters that seemed entirely irrelevant to the needs they were presenting . |
| 12 | ‘ Prior to and during the three game Honduras-EI Salvador series , for example , the press reported charges of ‘ mistreatment ’ of Honduras fans at the hands of El Salvadoreans and accusations of ‘ brutality ’ directed at players on both teams . ’ |
| 13 | His signs have to be of a special kind , directed at non-participants in the fiction . |
| 14 | Witnesses were reported to have said that troops set fire to shops , and that tank-fire was directed at houses [ for disorder in Sirnak in March 1992 see p. 38833 ] . |
| 15 | ‘ Most ads , unless they are domestic ones for washing powder or food , are directed at girls under twenty-five . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | It was in this context that we can try to understand the switch in focus in the taboo against masturbation , which was increasingly directed at infants and young adolescents . |
| 18 | General ‘ advice books ’ , directed at women , parents , or householders , were , however , already a well-established genre . |
| 19 | Maintain Britain 's leading role in the fight against drug abuse in sport , ensuring adequate funding for testing programmes and education campaigns directed at participants . |
| 20 | Butler sometimes talks of a passion as directed at one 's ‘ having ’ its object , but it seems more satisfactory to say that particular passions are directed at occurrences , and that the basic one can not be directed ; t the occurrence of pleasure for oneself since this always stems from having something occur one wished to do so . |
| 21 | He can then argue that once one has advanced beyond the superstition that all desire is for oneself having pleasure , one has no reason of principle for denying the apparent fact that some desire is directed at occurrences not involving oneself at all , but rather the welfare of others . |
| 22 | But the high-energy protons from these machines are directed at targets containing stationary protons and much of the energy of the bombarding particles is used up in giving kinetic energy to particles of relatively low mass — protons , mesons and so on — created in the collision . |
| 23 | Modules could then be directed at issues which teachers themselves see as of central concern . |
| 24 | Promotions directed at consumers |
| 25 | The objectives of a promotion directed at consumers could be to : |
| 26 | However , with standard form contracts directed at consumers , the legislature has interfered because of the imbalance in bargaining power . |
| 27 | Her main criticism was directed at workers on strike since July 22 at the FSM small car plant at Tychy who , she said , were jeopardising the plant 's proposed new contract with Fiat of Italy , without which no pay rises would be possible . |
| 28 | Her main criticism was directed at workers on strike since July 22 at the FSM small car plant at Tychy who , she said , were jeopardising the plant 's proposed new contract with Fiat of Italy , without which no pay rises would be possible . |
| 29 | Practice Note 1 is directed at auditors of businesses regulated under the Financial Services Act 1986 , and provides guidance on certain aspects of the conduct of those audit engagements . |
| 30 | Proposed changes in financial and other aids directed at LFAs are discussed in Chapter 6 . |