Example sentences of "aim at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | their demand for control can not be restricted to one of self-government within the enterprise , but it will have to aim at the development of a complex institutional system that will be able to strike a balance between the need for worker autonomy within the enterprise on the one hand , and the need for economic co-ordination at higher economic levels on the other . |
| 2 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |
| 3 | It was agreed to harmonize fiscal incentives for investors and to aim at the creation of a monetary union by 1995 . |
| 4 | Often they gave priority to foreign markets outside Europe , usually aiming at the USA as the biggest and best entry point for a global marketing strategy ; this might involve buying struggling American companies , which continued to make losses . |
| 5 | Forget the flourish of the big white napkin , forget two thumbs on the cork 's corona , forget aiming at the bulbs in the recessed ceiling-lights . |
| 6 | The French guns were firing at the flanks of the Prince 's position ; aiming at the farmhouses to east and west . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | V6028 plunged through a hail of flak , dodging balloon cables and aiming at the centre of the docks . |
| 9 | Fergus was lying on the couch , aiming at the centre of the ceiling . |
| 10 | Young photographers aiming at the poster market have taken to copying his style . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His publishers are now aiming at the US market , and Hutson is touring America next year to promote Heathen . |
| 13 | It is easy to understand the hulk , whose only cricketing merit is the ability to bowl faster than others , aiming at the batsman 's head . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A French force was advancing northwards from Charleroi , probably aiming at the gap between the British and Prussian armies . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Aiming at the Continentals , Japanese and travelling Americans from the Hotel Bristol |
| 19 | When threatened , you attack , aiming at the vulnerability exposed in the other . |
| 20 | In sharp contrast to Blauner , who argues that this ‘ objective integration ’ will lead to social integration of workers and management , Mallet argues that this objective integration has the opposite effect , leading to a new form of revolutionary consciousness that aims at the overthrow of the existing pattern of social relations in the enterprise . |
| 21 | Total warfare , though , aims at the annihilation of the enemy village , the death of all its inhabitants , the burning of the house and its contents and even the uprooting of the crops . |
| 22 | The 1992 programme aims at the improvement of resource allocation in the Community through the removal of barriers to the movement of goods , services , capital and labour . |
| 23 | Must aim at the child personally . |
| 24 | This interpretation of the doctrine is silent on whether individual political action ( voting in elections etc. ) may rightly aim at the promotion of some conception of the good . |
| 25 | We must also aim at the ivory consumers . |
| 26 | Do you aim at the commode , or at the water contained therein ? |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | ‘ Strategies ’ aim at the accumulation of symbolic capital . |
| 29 | Never mind the book , aim at the heart , shoot to kill , the other guy will … ’ |
| 30 | Crows aim at the eyes and Pipkin , sensing this , had buried his head in a clump of rank grass and was trying to burrow farther in . |