Example sentences of "[noun] aimed at [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insisting that the Platform was not fighting against the party but rather for its " democratic renewal aimed at adapting it to a multiparty system " , Shostakovsky called on Platform supporters to remain inside the CPSU until after the congress ( a view endorsed on April 12 by leading radical Boris Yeltsin ) , and criticized a call made by fellow Democratic Platform leader Igor Chubais on April 11 for Platform supporters to resign their CPSU membership immediately . |
| 2 | Lancashire Constabulary positioned a replica police Range Rover at the side of the M55 yesterday as part of an experiment aimed at cutting road deaths resulting from excessive speeding . |
| 3 | In a speech delivered to the seventh plenum of the sixth CPV central committee , which convened in Hanoi on Aug. 15-24 , 1989 , CPV secretary-general Nguyen Van Linh announced that the party had found a " very high level of unanimity " in rejecting " bourgeois liberalization , political pluralism and multi-opposition parties aimed at denying Marxism-Leninism , socialism and the party 's leadership " . |
| 4 | The progressive dismantling of regional development policy since 1979 has moved more swiftly than steps aimed at deregulating the housing sector . |
| 5 | The European Commission has proposed fresh steps aimed at regulating the trade , which Greenpeace has said should be banned . |
| 6 | There will be a vociferous , partisan crowd in Dublin but the Republic of Ireland supporters get uneasy and impatient when their team is not on top — and Bingham is a master at tactics aimed at producing that effect . |
| 7 | As more fossils are found , the sense of wonder will no doubt be stirred again , but the systematic research aimed at providing a more complete picture will continue . |
| 8 | During the late 1920s to early 1930s conflict over the correct strategy for the Japan Communist Party generated an enormous amount of scholarly research aimed at substantiating the views of the main factions . |
| 9 | Patients suffering from skin cancer are to be asked to take part in research aimed at proving a link between the disease and the radioactive gas radon . |
| 10 | Previous research aimed at investigating public attitudes to alternative energy technologies and the relative acceptability of various energy-conscious products includes a survey carried out recently by Robin Sadler and Liz Spencer , entitled Consumer Attitudes Towards Future Energy Sources and Products ( March 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Work towards the implementation of the policy of collaborative architectural research aimed at strengthening designer/user links and encouraging the profession to work from a well-researched base continued despite restricted resources . |
| 12 | On the other hand , we might have backed research aimed at understanding why some materials are insulators and why for example , adding small quantities of certain impurities to these materials has a dramatic effect on their conductivity . |
| 13 | Darrow and Govan were the first to identify with any certainty which ions were lost in diarrhoea and the quantities involved , thereby enabling them to state accurately the required make-up of an intravenous infusion aimed at replacing lost nutrients . |
| 14 | Conservationists have expressed concern over the future of Britain 's peatlands because a deal aimed at preserving them agreed in January 1992 [ see ED 55 ] has still not been signed and could be abandoned . |
| 15 | The cause of the retention needs to be determined and therapy aimed at alleviating the stress and tension that are contributing to it . |
| 16 | This was ‘ the ‘ Child Art ’ movement , now an established practice aimed at encouraging the creative side of young children — a reaction against the imitative nature of previous [ art ] teaching' ( Gordon and Lawton , 1978 , p. 218 ) . |
| 17 | The central policy-making body for the professions , the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing , Midwifery and Health Visiting ( UKCC ) , has already issued guidelines for good practice aimed at improving the standard and content of re-entry programmes available to qualified nurses and health visitors wishing to update their clinical and theoretical knowledge . |
| 18 | Thus statutory removal of children was perceived as exceptional , and good practice aimed at minimizing it . |
| 19 | NATTA , The Network for Alternative Technology and Technology Assessment , in conjunction with the Open University Technology Policy Group , has initiated such a study aimed at establishing how aware people are of alternative and renewable sources of energy , in general . |
| 20 | This study aimed at working out a simple mathematical correlation between the villus height and gain in body weight in rats adapted to different experimental conditions . |
| 21 | Some employers may not run courses for groups of returners but instead offer to help you plan a personal programme of study aimed at satisfying the same requirements . |
| 22 | In south east Zimbabwe , Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery and aerial photographs are being used in a study aimed at improving the success rate of boreholes and dug wells for rural water supply , with collaboration from hydrogeologists and engineering geophysicists . |
| 23 | This study aimed at examining the mechanisms participating in excessive faecal bile acid loss in cystic fibrosis . |
| 24 | While it is possible to produce ad hoc arguments for non-monotonicity , it is probably wiser to design a study aimed at investigating the functions of both specifically . |
| 25 | As part of a study aimed at elucidating the function of POU domain genes in embryonic development a cDNA clone containing the entire coding region of pou[c] was isolated by low-stringency plaque hybridization of a cDNA library derived from 33h zebrafish embryos using a 380 bp Hind III fragment spanning the salmon pit-1 POU domain ( R.Aasland , unpublished ) as a probe . |
| 26 | And the brother of another , Richard McIlkenny , said : ‘ It is a whitewash aimed at covering up the mistakes made by police in convicting six innocent men . ’ |
| 27 | The United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) has launched a cleaner production programme aimed at persuading business to adopt greener methods . |
| 28 | This view , represented by , for instance , Dennis Skinner ( Bolsover ) , holds that the capitalist mechanisms of the EEC prevent Britain from adopting a socialist programme aimed at creating full employment . |
| 29 | BAIE 's Midlands region has been renamed Central region as part of a new programme aimed at generating more interest among members . |
| 30 | Although Gil Robles and a sincere ‘ Social-Catholic ’ minority within the CEDA were anxious to demonstrate their reforming credentials , and thereby to retain the loyalty of their own peasant supporters , with a programme aimed at converting rural tenants into property-owners , they got nowhere in the face of opposition from monarchists and the reactionary majority of their own party . |