Example sentences of "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 | Marketing efforts should therefore be directed at one or two such potential key customers . |
| 3 | The EPA has an enormous education job on its hands , which should be directed at green enthusiasts and sceptics alike . |
| 4 | This reassurance , though commonly assumed to be directed at the British , was almost equally directed at Europe 's smaller countries . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Standing well back , using the spray technique described earlier , a jet of caustic cleaner should be directed at one spot until the soil is liquified and the clean surface can be seen . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The violence , Nails knew from experience , would be directed at himself . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Such programmes should be directed at lifestyle rather than disease detection , and targeted at improving the health of women of all ages . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Stroh Violin was commonly employed ; this was a violin fitted with a soundbox and horn so the upper harmonics of violin tone could be directed at the recording machine . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Modules could then be directed at issues which teachers themselves see as of central concern . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It wants guidelines on the frequency of such commercials , and questioned whether the ads should be directed at children at all . |
| 18 | For example , if language difficulties identified from an assessment can be described in terms of a functional analysis , and an environmental deficit , remedial procedures might be directed at rearranging the contingencies in the child 's natural environment . |
| 19 | The second basic historical principle is that of discrimination in the use of force : that the use of weapons should be directed at military targets and should as far as possible avoid damage to the civilian population and buildings such as churches , museums , historic monuments and hospitals , as well as neutral states and their nationals . |
| 20 | those which employ a method or means of combat which can not be directed at a specific military objective ; or |
| 21 | But whatever criticisms might be directed at the Japanese judgment , it remains important as the one case in which a court has ruled on the legality of actual use of nuclear weapons . |
| 22 | These ‘ free attacks ’ will be directed at the slowest character , who will almost certainly be slain . |
| 23 | The same criticism can , with perhaps less force , be directed at the translation of the Ameslan gestures . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Before pursuing this theme , attention should be directed at the other issue arising from Brockway 's declaration , the abolitionist stance , which eschews efforts to improve life within prisons in favour of seeking to be entirely rid of the prison system . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Indeed we will see that the outcome of the Keynesian view is that monetary policy should be directed at interest rates , rather than the money supply , but that in any case monetary policy should be subsidiary to fiscal policy . |
| 29 | One possible solution was that fiscal policy could be used exclusively for the management of the level of employment , and monetary policy could be directed at raising interest rates to attract capital inflows and thereby offset the increase in imports in the balance of payments accounts . |
| 30 | These instruments can be directed at the two monetary targets , the money supply and interest rates . |