Example sentences of "was directed at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paved corridor had already been cleared , so work was directed at a building attached to it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall . |
| 4 | With hindsight it is tempting to ask if her outrage was directed at the Prince or the woman who held him in such thrall , Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 5 | His maiden speech , ostensibly a conventional attack on placemen , was directed at the prince regent who , provoked by Bennet 's championship of his estranged wife , labelled him ‘ factious ’ . |
| 6 | Most protest was directed at the government 's failure to pay salaries , overdue for several weeks . |
| 7 | The other curse was directed at the committee members of the local Working Men 's Club when they banned my father , on the pretext of his epilepsy , but really because he always won at cards and was n't keen to give people a chance to win their money back . |
| 8 | If the hint was directed at the boy , he seemed not to take it . |
| 9 | Their only disenchantment was directed at the weather . |
| 10 | His only real criticism was directed at the wastage of ammunition ; he felt that some of the gunners had simply blazed away instead of taking precise aim at a target . |
| 11 | The separation of the mode of discovery and the mode of justification does enable the inductivists to evade that part of the criticism levelled at them in this chapter which was directed at the claim that science starts with observation . |
| 12 | In one experiment , aggressive behaviour was very much more common among the autocratic group than the democratic group , but none of the aggression or hostility was directed at the leader himself . |
| 13 | His protest was directed at the midsummer 's day four-mile ‘ exclusion zone ’ at Stonehenge , imposed by Salisbury District Council and confirmed by the Home Secretary . |
| 14 | ‘ I see nothing humorous in suggesting my query was directed at the waiter , and nothing funny in your eyeing him that way as if the implication were a consideration . |