Example sentences of "directed at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Security has been tight at the court , but there has been one threat against a juror , a bomb threat against the judge and now the firebombing directed at a key witness . |
| 2 | Modern art is directed at a public largely untutored in the fine arts amidst a rapid expansion of the means of communication . |
| 3 | Mary Ann Doane 's argument concerning the ‘ women 's films ’ of the 1940s , for example , was that these products of mainstream fiction cinema were directed at a female audience and thus did construct a female gaze . |
| 4 | Journals or papers designed to be sold in a number of African countries can succeed commercially , as some have shown in recent years , but these are directed at a limited , élite readership . |
| 5 | those which are not directed at a specific military objective ; |
| 6 | those which employ a method or means of combat which can not be directed at a specific military objective ; or |
| 7 | In the British version , which was directed at a younger age group ( 10–12 years ) with a lower smoking prevalence , the objective was to minimise or delay uptake . |
| 8 | The paved corridor had already been cleared , so work was directed at a building attached to it . |
| 9 | But , as with development planning in general , there is still a tendency to assume that development communication and information directed at a general audience will equally reach women . |
| 10 | The implications of these general approaches to ontogenesis for the nature of the artefact become clearer when they are directed at a specific problem , the nature of play . |
| 11 | There may be letters from the victim 's relations , from Members of Parliament , from the general public ( whether directed at a particular case or at penal policy in general ) , or from the Howard League or the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders . |
| 12 | The report is , therefore , directed at a much smaller target than the novel . |
| 13 | An inquiry directed at a not necessarily random sample of employers in 1984 asked about the number of workers they had whose stay with the organisation was recognised by both sides as being temporary . |
| 14 | ‘ I think he 's my favourite , ’ Eloise said , one slim finger directed at a toad made of nephrite , its bulging eyes two big ruby cabochons , surrounded by a ring of diamonds . |
| 15 | Apart from this consideration , Soviet spokesmen implied that there was little difference between Gailani 's stand and the essence of the Carrington Plan : both were directed at a thorough recomposition of the Marxist DRA government . |
| 16 | This means that missile throwing , although technically perhaps falling within the ambit of this offence , would place on the prosecutor the burden of proving that the missile was directed at a human being rather than at property . |
| 17 | Strange 's outburst was directed at a cameraman who clicked as he addressed the ball , and then as he reached the top of the backswing . |
| 18 | Codd 's research was directed at a very real problem , that is the deletion , insertion and update of data on these very large files . |
| 19 | In the Zartmann experiment a narrow beam of vaporised metal atoms is directed at a rotating cylindrical drum ( see figure 3.9 ) . |
| 20 | The result is a broad comedy directed at a fast lick by Murray on a marvellously cluttered set by Simon Higlett in a Manchester Royal Exchange production . |
| 21 | The president 's appeal is directed at a summit of the commonwealth to be held in Armenia 's capital , Yerevan , on 30 April . |