Example sentences of "be [adv] directed at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the two eyes are not directed at the same object , double vision results . |
| 2 | The horse 's ears are capable of great movement , almost 180° rotation , and are usually directed at the object of the horse 's attention . |
| 3 | It may be an awareness of my married status ( of which my colleagues often jokingly remind me ) , or a way of squaring all my activities with the ethos of the KZ , or a simple boredom with the female face , but now my thrusts of love — so sudden , so hurried , so helpless , so hopeless — are exclusively directed at the source of universal sustenance and fruition . |
| 4 | The principal one was that conversion and growth were particularly directed at the clerical-religious élite , where the annual retreat system formed the annual or biennial centre of the individual spiritual life . |
| 5 | The campaign is identified as being primarily directed at the government , yet , as mentioned , local authorities have a role to play . |
| 6 | I 've nothing against young people discovering the beauty of our national parks ( I myself am only 23 ) and my anger is not directed at the offenders themselves , but at the so-called leaders of the group . |
| 7 | This kind of chauvinism is , of course , perfectly normal coming from sections of today 's Conservative Party , except that it is normally directed at the ‘ Anti-British Broadcasting Corporation ’ . |
| 8 | Most of his anger is still directed at the prosecution . |
| 9 | The bit where the rest of the family goes out and the cat is after Stuart bores Babur : he thinks it is probably directed at the younger reader . |
| 10 | Second , since intervention is often directed at the areas of relative weakness in a child 's linguistic abilities , it may be helpful to identify what these are and to what extent they are likely to impair the child 's ability to communicate in a variety of settings . |
| 11 | Criticism is often directed at the amount of time consumed by meetings . |
| 12 | Since AFDC is specifically directed at the relief of poverty , one would expect a correlation between the level of poverty in a State and the number of recipients there . |
| 13 | Three criticisms are commonly directed at the evidence for the Westermarck hypothesis . |
| 14 | One Soviet writer argued in this vein that the EEC proposal was not directed at the neutralisation of Afghanistan at all but at hiding the ‘ undeclared war against the Afghan people ’ . |
| 15 | Obiter the court said that the supply of the drug was not directed at the person of the accused . |
| 16 | Moral suasion by the Bank of England was frequently directed at the nature of banking business ( qualitative directives ) rather than the overall level of business ( quantitative directives ) to which , say , the call for special deposits would be aimed . |
| 17 | The scope was extended in an ‘ enhanced ’ Urban Programme , which included economic and environmental as well as social projects , and was specifically directed at the inner urban areas where the problems were most severe . |