Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been directed at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although most research in settlement geography has been directed at settlement systems , or the distribution of villages , it is also important to consider village development or planning at the micro-scale of design or general layout . |
| 2 | Since then much theoretical work has been directed at this short-sighted empiricism , uncovering the pattern of cultural or ideological assumptions that supported it . |
| 3 | Most attention has been directed at the in-migrants and out-migrants to the exclusion of a core of more or less stable groups . |
| 4 | Education has been directed at the production of the rational , the free , the independent of mind , the dignified , in short , the autonomous human being . |
| 5 | Much criticism had been directed at van der Merwe , who captained South Africa on their last tour of England in 1965 , after the omission of Clive Rice and Jimmy Cook from the team for the World Cup and the Test in West Indies . |
| 6 | For nearly two decades public policy has been directed at supporting existing small businesses and encouraging the creation of new ones . |
| 7 | It was the first display of his own eidetic abilities I had ever witnessed ; before that all his efforts in this respect had been directed at infiltrating my internal visual world . |
| 8 | IN the past , attention has been focused on the problems of the chronology of civil defences and less thought has been directed at the reasons for these defences and why some settlements were chosen in preference to others . |
| 9 | 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 } . |
| 10 | By some accounts fire had been directed at the camp by Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) forces — an accusation which the OLF denied . |