Example sentences of "aim at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan 's colony of Korea was occupied partly by Russian troops and partly by the US in 1945. prior discussion among the allies had agreed to aim at international trusteeship followed by independence , but superpower interests and conflict between Korean independence groups rendered agreement on unification impossible , and the two sides became increasingly polarized . |
| 2 | Surely , speakers and writers aiming at optimal relevance would formulate their utterances in a way that guaranteed the intended interpretation in the first place . |
| 3 | The Council " notes that there is a wide recognition of the need to extend or define the Community 's competence in specific areas " , among them : " the social dimension , including the need for social dialogue ; economic and social cohesion among the member states ; improved protection of the environment in order to ensure sustainable growth ; the health sector and in particular the combating of major diseases ; a research effort commensurate with the development of the Community 's competitive capacity ; an energy policy aiming at greater security and efficiency , bearing in mind also co-operation in the whole of Europe [ a Dutch proposal ] ; providing the Community with major infrastructures , allowing also the completion of a trans-European network ; safeguarding the diversity of the European heritage and promoting cultural exchanges and education … " |
| 4 | I said , ‘ Were you aiming at that flag ? ’ |
| 5 | The most coherent films to emerge from Elstree during this time were both set in the Edwardian era , Losey 's glorious The Go-Between ( 1970 ) and The Railway Children ( 1970 ) , with the latter aiming at that much-lamented but largely-departed family audience . |
| 6 | He had been therapist and client both , had asked the questions and supplied the answers , aiming at total frankness , keeping nothing back , expressing to those bare walls , that metal table and black-leather swivel chair , that window with its half-drawn , dark-blue blind , the crawling distastes and shames , the self-disgust , the shrinking from light and the fear which seemed sometimes to beat with frenzied wings against bars in his brain . |
| 7 | The bridge pickup is mounted on a sort of Tele-style plate , which when combined with the overall shape of the guitar gives the memory a bit of a jog and you find yourself starting to think Thinline or HM Telecaster , which may not be a good thing if Starfield are aiming at total individuality . |
| 8 | So far as the latter are concerned it is evident that the movements aiming at national unification or national independence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have arisen in circumstances very different from those which prevailed when the first nation states were created . |
| 9 | In 2001 Kubrick was aiming at state-of-the-art realism for most of the film ; then he launched off into slightly obscure fantasy in the fourth and last section , ‘ Jupiter and Beyond Infinity ’ . |
| 10 | ACER AIMS AT VACATED MINICOMPUTER SPACE |
| 11 | By Jane Croft A PIONEERING course at Liverpool University aims at improving race relations throughout Britain . |
| 12 | When Spurgeon opened Pastor 's College in 1856 some of the first pupils were illiterate but he insisted that his aim was to equip ‘ a class of ministers who will not aim at lofty scholarship , but at the winning of souls — men of the people ’ . |
| 13 | In one area Tanucci did aim at far-reaching change . |
| 14 | But I wish they would aim at scrupulous accuracy regarding the facts and moderation in their comments . |
| 15 | ‘ We aim at social security . ’ |
| 16 | On a more general note we MUST rationalize our charging policy or add-on services — CAL , CDROM , Online — and aim at some sort of consistency . |
| 17 | ‘ Shall we move over there ? ’ suggested Greg , nodding to a vacant corner and hoping his intentions were not mistaken : he aimed at cosy conversation rather than anything intimate . |
| 18 | Those boys ( they were few , for academic impulses withered and died in the Burleigh air ) who aimed at Advanced Level , or even university , had always trickled off into the state system as soon as they had taken their Ordinary Levels , if not before . |
| 19 | The motion asks the C E C to initiate a campaign aimed at changing legislation , giving workers the right to refuse to accept changes to previous agreed contracts . |
| 20 | He stuck to these attitudes through the 1820s and after , and could see no reason to take up the new liberal and radical ideas , which aimed at further break-up of the existing order of things . |
| 21 | Talks in Whitehall aimed at restoring trade union rights to thousands of workers have collapsed after months of secret negotiations . |
| 22 | Talks in Whitehall aimed at restoring trade union rights to thousands of workers have collapsed after months of secret negotiations . |
| 23 | I also aimed at another thing which people consider Italian I mean a certain squareness and horizontality of outline . |
| 24 | An extradition treaty was signed with Rwanda on Aug. 16 aimed at improving effectiveness in combating crime ; the treaty excluded individuals wanted for political offences , and both governments reserved the right to refuse to surrender their own citizens , in which cases they agreed to prosecute the individuals themselves . |
| 25 | The Reaganites argued that the ‘ stagflation ’ of the 1970s demonstrated that there was no evidence of a trade-off between unemployment and inflation , and heaped scorn on policies aimed at managing demand or artificially controlling wages and prices . |
| 26 | But the emphasis of the play , aimed at primary school children , is always on clarity and entertainment . |
| 27 | A new RNLI film , specifically aimed at primary school age children , is now available . |
| 28 | Yet it often happens that when a new kung fu student enters a kwoon , with pre-conceived ideas about fighting , and is shown basic techniques that look as though they were aimed at primary school level , he looks for more in those techniques than there actually is . |
| 29 | The computer misuse act is aimed at criminal activity , it was primarily aimed at people who either hack into other computers or misuse the computers that are in front of them . |
| 30 | However , it has long been argued whether , for countries wishing to moderate population growth through fertility reduction , it is more efficient to invest the available meagre resources in primary health care programmes that , through reducing infant and child mortality , may have a secondary effect on fertility or , to promote policies aimed at healthful childbearing patterns that will reduce fertility and also have an indirect beneficial impact on maternal and child health . |