Example sentences of "[noun pl] aim [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In words aimed at the US president , Bill Clinton , he said : ‘ The Balkanisation of the region is coming if there is to be no peaceful settlement . |
| 2 | Guitar magazines devote much of their space to equipment reviews that are , nine times out of ten , merely a plug for the manufacturer , when the magazine could be putting subscribers ' money to good use by running more informative and educational articles aimed at the musician eager for knowledge and not glossy adverts ! |
| 3 | If , as they themselves admitted , the Communists aimed at the supersession of the ILP , it was obviously dangerous and foolish to help them in their work . |
| 4 | The bowmen slipped backwards from tree to tree , fitting and shooting as they could , the lancers aimed for the men rather than the horses , and brought down three in the first onslaught . |
| 5 | The present purely taxonomic treatment relies on a series of pictorial keys aimed at the non specialist . |
| 6 | Other main recommendations were that : ( i ) Congress should create the post of assistant secretary for transport in charge of security and intelligence ; ( ii ) the US government should directly manage security at domestic airports and conduct a study to assess the safety of US airports ; ( iii ) the State Department rather than the airlines should conduct negotiations with foreign governments to meet security standards at airports used by US carriers ; ( iv ) victims of terrorist attacks aimed against the US government should qualify for special financial compensation ; and ( v ) the State Department should take steps to ensure that relatives of victims were given " prompt , humane and courteous treatment and services in overseas disasters " . |
| 7 | In the first such case in the UK , Leeds-based John Richardson Computers Ltd has successfully argued that copyright should protect the look and feel of a program ; the court decided that a plaintiff does not need to show source code has been copied to prove infringement , and that copying non-literal aspects of a program , such as structure and organisation , could well constitute infringement ; the company 's dispute arose with a former employee over rival applications aimed at the pharmaceutical industry ; in the past , copyright cases have dealt exclusively with copying of actual program code . |
| 8 | The centre was christened in July with an adult education summer school and a series of master classes aimed at the professional caterer and taught by Jermey 's Shanghai Institute of Tourism counterpart chef Xu Zhengcai , on his first visit to Britain , and Professor Dai Xin-Huan , his colleague and interpreter . |
| 9 | ‘ The NSA helped prepare the ground for the formation of lamb groups and has , like ourselves , always encouraged farmers to aim for the quality end of the market . |
| 10 | The government 's ambitious reforms aiming at the revitalization of the national economy and the introduction of a fully operating free-market mechanism , outlined by Antall in May 1990 [ see p. 37465 ] , incorporated privatization , together with efforts to increase exports , to enter the world economy and to attract foreign investment . |
| 11 | Our data may , however , serve as a basis for further studies aiming at the identification of regulatory factors ( for example , hormones , lymphokines , cytokines ) that modulate the expression and function of integrins of colorectal cancer cells . |
| 12 | The Soviet proposal was presented as a means to ease tension not only in the Persian Gulf ‘ but also as a result of that in a much bigger area where militaristic actions aimed at the Gulf region have already increased tension ’ , especially in the Horn of Africa . |
| 13 | Huxley 's answer was to stress the role of evolutionary morphology , the detailed study of organic structures aimed at the reconstruction of the links between the major living groups . |
| 14 | The alternative is massive retaliation by missiles aimed at the enemy 's cities , which will stay put . |
| 15 | On each corner stands a pair of soldiers , rifles aimed at the lines of cars . |
| 16 | Among its first acts in office , the new government , committed to sweeping economic reforms aimed at the introduction of a market-based economy , announced on Dec. 11 , 1989 , that Czechoslovakia was applying for membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank . |
| 17 | Considering the overall sound quality and taking into account how much is in such a compact package the retail price of a touch under £1500 might seem a tad high , but it compares more than favourably with reel-to-reel machines aimed at the same market . |
| 18 | In addition to the gaudy and often poorly woven bazaar items aimed at the tourist market , there are a number of very attractive nomadic items being made by various , mainly Berber and Bedouin , tribesmen throughout North Africa . |
| 19 | Today , very few European countries produce hand-knotted rugs , although many still make flatweaves — some mass-produced and some " one-off " items aimed at the interior design market . |
| 20 | Young photographers aiming at the poster market have taken to copying his style . |
| 21 | It is important that we do not altogether ignore videodiscs aimed at the consumer market . |
| 22 | That is the opinion of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation ( UNIDO ) which has teamed up with Apple , a leading American maker of microcomputers , to produce a package of programs aimed at the finance ministries of developing countries . |
| 23 | The second compilation disk of 8 programs aimed at the 4 to 9 year old range . |
| 24 | A proper balance needs to be struck between essential protection for the public , and over-zealous and intrusive controls aimed at the elimination of all conceivable risk . |
| 25 | Head of Sport Dave Hill stood at Selhurst Park on Monday night , deafened by wolf-whistles and dinner invitations aimed at the dancing Sky Strikers , and remarked : ‘ The punters hate it , do n't they ? ’ |
| 26 | There existed other newspapers aimed at the European market , such as the daily Tanganyika Opinion and the weekly Tanganyika Advertiser , but their circulations were low and they mostly disappeared long before independence . |
| 27 | He urged his men to aim at the cannon themselves ; but this was difficult to do with such clumsy pieces , with considerable trial and error involved . |
| 28 | If socialists aim at the formation of a government as a part of their strategy they must be ready to make their views known on these issues : how to reduce unemployment ? how to avoid inflation ? where the money would come from to provide better social services ? |
| 29 | The Harpy is able to evade blows aimed through the bars of the cage , and missile fire is at a -30 penalty ; if you wish , missile fire has a 10% chance per missile of freakishly breaking open the cage door , allowing the Harpy out ! |
| 30 | During the battle between the two , which began an hour before sunset on 24 April 1778 off Kilroot Point near Carrickfergus , Jones kept his distance , disabling his opponent by cannon fire and pistol shots aimed at the crew until , resistance having ceased , a boarding party was sent across , to find the decks running with blood and rum — a keg , brought out prematurely to celebrate the expected victory , had been breached by a cannon ball — and the Drake was taken in tow . |