Example sentences of "[be] aim at the " in BNC.

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1 It should need no stressing that even today , when more and more actors ( those in work ) are aiming at the regular working-day/mortgage belt , affairs , amours and just plain sex inside a company is not unknown .
2 Several hotel and leisure groups are already beginning to diversify into this field : they are aiming at the top and more lucrative end of the market , charging fees well above the DSS limits .
3 ‘ We are aiming at the Northern area because we feel it is desperately under-served , ’ he says , adding that discussions are also under way with Yorkshire Arts about touring in that area .
4 Yeremi peered every which where for weapons which might be aiming at the now-inactive macro cannon on their carapace , or at their left shoulder where d'Arquebus was ensconced .
5 The company says that it will not initially be aiming at the unfamiliar Unix community , instead it has set its sights on its existing customers , and IBM mainframe sites , which are increasingly feeling the push towards Unix .
6 The company says that it will not initially be aiming at the unfamiliar Unix community , instead it has set its sights on its existing customers , and IBM mainframe sites , which are increasingly feeling the push towards Unix .
7 The minority , including Eleanor Rathbone , while not opposed to the redistribution of income in favour of the poor ( Rathbone , 1949 , p. 29 ) , argued that they should also be aiming at the redistribution of income in favour of those with family responsibilities within each income group .
8 As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years .
9 But these protests should not be aimed at the Vice Chancellors .
10 Mr Burr said the rump of the shares on offer would be aimed at the 11,000 members of the club as Stock Exchange rules did not allow shares to be allotted to them directly .
11 The images of vision are of the same order as creative ideas , but the mind must be aimed at the horizon , and the thoughts must be concentrated in the emotion of creativity .
12 If , as the psychodynamic school believes , obesity is fundamentally a psychological problem , it follows that treatment should ideally be aimed at the mind rather than at the body , and that treatment aimed at the body will leave the underlying psychological problem unaltered or even aggravated , similar objections were and still are levelled against behavioural treatments which allegedly deal only with ‘ symptoms ’ , leaving the underlying problem to spring up anew .
13 EC funding was obtained for a new project , to start in 1991 , which will be aimed at the development of metallogenic/economic models and sets of exploration criteria suitable for gold exploration in western Europe from the analysis of multiple datasets ( including mineral occurrence , geological , geochemical , geophysical and remotely sensed datasets ) .
14 Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow .
15 Briefing courses may be aimed at the employee only or organisations may encourage the employee 's spouse to attend the briefing sessions .
16 Furthermore , this exercise should be aimed at the ‘ bright ’ pupils .
17 Chameleon chips will be aimed at the Transputer 's traditional telecommunications markets , along with more mainstream computer markets , multimedia workstations and portables , database and computing servers .
18 The thing will be aimed at the corporate and commercial transaction processing markets and will run SQL relational databases like Oracle and Ingres when it comes to market in 1994 or 1995 .
19 Chameleon chips will be aimed at the Transputer 's traditional telecommunications markets , along with more mainstream computer markets , multimedia workstations and portables , database and computing servers .
20 Moreover this device would not really be aimed at the crucial needs involved .
21 Whilst the pert , Californian sexuality of Baywatch bimbos seems to be aimed at the heart of adolescent lust , Schiffer possesses a vital ambiguity within her features and her poise which recreates her as a story waiting to be told , as opposed to a fantasy waiting to be fulfilled .
22 The problem drinker in our society can be defined as any person who experiences social , psychological or physical problems as a consequence of his or her own repeated drinking , and services should not only be aimed at the individuals themselves but also at family members who suffer as a result of someone else 's drinking .
23 The whole package appears to be aimed at the accomplished user as the beginner could have some difficulty .
24 It does , however , need much pre-planning and administration , which is probably the reason why competitions tend to be aimed at the national level , and involve high value prizes such as holidays and cars , so that consumer response is great enough to cover the costs of the promotion .
25 Certainly , the Serbian forces have publicly admitted that they had targeted the regional museum in Sarajevo : early last month the BBC 's war reporter Kate Adie quoted the Serbian explanation of why they had shelled the hotel which houses all the foreign correspondents : apparently they were aiming at the roof of the museum ( which contains the Bosnian anthropological material ) and missed .
26 However it is not just the press that 's causing Parker difficulties — the company 's personal computer , mid-range and networking arms are all happy to explain how they are perfectly capable of running enterprise-wide applications , and the company 's most swingeing cuts are being aimed at the Enterprise Systems division .
27 There were men out there , workmen driving animals and carrying torches whose beams were aimed at the ground .
28 If these benefits were aimed at the poor — the people who really need them — instead of at everybody , public spending and the taxes required to finance it could fall sharply .
29 Businessmen were further upset by a series of tax proposals , commonly known as the " soak the rich taxes " , which were aimed at the wealthy and large business corporations .
30 He accepted [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 857 , 863B–C that neither section 6(2) nor section 61(1) gave power to order the payment of compensation for loss , and agreed , at p. 864A , that both section 6(2) and section 61(1) were aimed at the statutory rescission of unlawful transactions .
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