Example sentences of "[adv] aimed [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For instance , as far as nature and wildlife is concerned , there are parks , nature reserves , wildlife centres , aquariums , beaches and waterfalls that are not only aimed at the tourist but at local people too , ’ he added . |
| 2 | I think a lot of the modern maths that we 've , we 've heard about is still very much aimed at the brighter children who were going to do O-level and , and beyond even in mathematics . |
| 3 | But until very recently systems were generally aimed at the top end of the market , and the cost was high enough to make acquisition a major undertaking . |
| 4 | A number of interesting new titles are promised by the Antique Collector 's Club based in Suffolk whose books are generally aimed at the collector/dealer market . |
| 5 | TOTTS is largely aimed at the under fives and aims to teach them road safety through play . |
| 6 | It was just aimed at the wrong person . ’ |
| 7 | The prosecution says it was deliberately aimed at the inspector 's head . |
| 8 | These ‘ Notes ’ , whilst ostensibly aimed at the Trotskyist Opposition ( which had officially been routed in 1927 ) were in reality directed against the ‘ super-industrialisers ’ amongst the ruling majority . |
| 9 | For heaven 's sake , it was almost directly aimed at the unemployed . ’ |
| 10 | This was directly aimed at the ‘ surplus countries ’ , especially Japan and Germany , and was an attempt to bind them into a system where they could not pile up persistent surpluses . |
| 11 | The bulk of the whip was always aimed at the tightly-curved cheeks of her arse , but the tip flicked indiscriminately on to her thighs and belly , and sometimes snaked into the tender cleft between her plump twin moons . |
| 12 | Focus on Britain and Welcome to Britain are both aimed at the young European visitor to Britain and feature domestic situations of the kind an exchange-scheme student might meet . |
| 13 | He wrote a defence of the school and several volumes of religious queries , simple guides to religion , partly aimed against the Quakers , in the form of question and answer . |
| 14 | During the troubles of 1173–4 the inhabitants of the citadel seized the opportunity to turn their enclosure into a proper circuit of walls , a move which was probably aimed against the city rather than against ducal authority , though clearly it was taking advantage of the latter 's temporary weakness . |
| 15 | Mr Mladenov followed his appointment as Communist Party General Secretary with a speech clearly aimed at the country 's dissident movement , which has been growing . |
| 16 | They come in three volumes , each presented by Julian Colbeck , and volume one is clearly aimed at the complete novice . |
| 17 | Again prosecution is clearly aimed at the undeserving poor . |
| 18 | Ever demonstrative , Markus Stenz clearly aimed at the dramatic in Beethoven 's Symphony No4 and digging deep , uncovered hidden orchestral reserves bringing a satisfying degree of tension and thrill to the first movement . |
| 19 | David Blunkett , Labour 's local government spokesman , said the announcement meant that the Government had admitted defeat over the poll tax , and that the money was solely aimed at the next election . |
| 20 | However , although the Cross Country route has not emerged as a high-speed line per se , it now features a number of useful long-distance trains mainly aimed at the leisure market . |
| 21 | Yeong 's invention is a wastewater treatment system , mainly aimed at the textile industry , which converts petroleum-based waste sludges into fertiliser . |
| 22 | Fresco is really aimed at the next generation of object applications which will actually use large numbers of objects . |
| 23 | This is a cheap and cheerful set-up — you do n't get any fancy documentation and it 's really aimed at the experienced PC buyer . |
| 24 | As far as property damage is concerned , the provisions are really aimed at the consumer market , so , if you buy a home computer as a Christmas present for your uncle and because of a fault it catches fire and causes £1,500 of damage to his house , then your uncle will have a claim under the 1987 Act against the manufacturer of the computer for the damage to the house and furniture . |
| 25 | Developed by Commodore as a rival to CD-1 , CDTV is now aimed at the educational/computer games market . |
| 26 | In the fist half of his speech , the right hon. Gentleman complained that the Bill was irrelevant , that it did nothing , that it was wholly superfluous and was simply aimed at the headlines . |
| 27 | When asked how he has chosen between the various versions of the same subject by Titian , Laclotte says that he has simply aimed for the best . |
| 28 | There are a number of good books on sampling , some of them now particularly aimed at the social scientist , but even the best of books can only deal with problems in fairly general terms . |
| 29 | The condemnation by Pecham of those seizing and wasting church property was particularly aimed at the king 's exploitation of the temporal lands of vacant bishoprics . |
| 30 | This persuasive approach , particularly aimed at the young , has been accompanied by selective targeting of individual researchers , who are the subject of demonstrations , press reports , telephone calls , and letters . |