Example sentences of "[Wh det] aimed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a further blow to inter-Korean relations , the Agency for National Security Planning ( NSP ) , South Korea 's main internal security agency , claimed on Dec. 26 that it had thwarted a conspiracy linked with North Korea which aimed to overthrow the South Korean government . |
| 2 | The modest resettlement programme in rural areas which aimed to improve the grossly inequitable distribution of land prevailing during the colonial period was less effective than had been hoped , and was cut back by the stabilization measures taken in 1982–84 . |
| 3 | On Aug. 15 President George Bush approved a bill which aimed to improve the mechanisms regulating the country 's intelligence-gathering activities . |
| 4 | Some black activists , such as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan , suggested that such trials , together with the AIDS and drugs epidemics , were evidence of a white plot which aimed to destroy black Americans . |
| 5 | Unlike Taurus , which aimed to embrace both institutional and private shareholders , the proposals to the Bank 's Task Force concentrated on addressing g the needs of only professional institutional investors . |
| 6 | The programme , which aimed to revitalize ( Buddhist ) Drukpa culture , had the effect of seriously alienating the ( Hindu ) Nepalese minority . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , there were other incentive schemes — Enterprise Zones , for example , and simplified Planning Zones , which aimed to lift tax and planning ‘ barriers ’ in order to facilitate investment . |
| 8 | In September 1989 a draft law was presented which aimed to facilitate a large-scale privatization programme over the next five years . |
| 9 | In October 1986 the second Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik , ended in failure when the American refused to abandon his ‘ Strategic Defense Initiative ’ , launched three years earlier , which aimed to create an anti-ballistic missile system . |
| 10 | On March 30 , 1990 , the Bundestag approved a gene technology law which aimed to create a legal framework to regulate the area and remove the legal uncertainties that had existed before , including those resulting from the Hoechst case . |
| 11 | Planning authorities , it was claimed , showed an unsympathetic attitude to applications from young people for new homes or businesses despite the Government 's Local Needs Policy which aimed to retain young people in the countryside . |
| 12 | It could be sampling error ; the main data used in this chapter was collected in monthly sample surveys , each of which aimed to interview a cross-section of the general public but each of which will have deviated from the parent population to some extent . |
| 13 | It is the result of a three-year development programme , undertaken by the Department of Office Administration , which aimed to turn the highly successful SCOTVEC Secretarial Courses into a progressive , integrated and equally attractive course provision which would meet the demands of the 1990s . |
| 14 | Following the general election of March 22 ( which aimed to return the country to civilian rule ) a loose coalition of five pro-military parties headed by the air force-backed Samakkhi Tham had attempted to form a government [ see p. 38816 ] . |
| 15 | In 1981 , when Johnstone was still part of the furniture at Ibrox , Bill McMurdo and a local architect Bob Waugh involved him in the launch of Box Office Promotions ( UK ) Ltd a sports and leisure company which aimed to profit from Johnstone 's popularity in the Lanarkshire area . |
| 16 | For the last three years , a team of researchers at Manchester University and Huddersfield Polytechnic have been involved in a DES funded project which aimed to assess the impact of a range of inservice courses on teachers working with pupils with special educational needs ( see Robson , Sebba , Mittler and Davies , 1988 , for a full account and Sebba , 1987 , for a briefer interim report ) . |
| 17 | And it was given new nourishment by a series of Hitler speeches in late 1940 and early 1941 which aimed to strengthen confidence in final victory and create the impression that the decisive strike to end the war — people still presumed that it would be against Britain — would take place in the course of the next twelve months . |
| 18 | Although South Korea recorded a growth rate of 9.1 per cent in 1990 , this was achieved largely through a boom in the construction industry manufactured by a government-backed residential building programme which aimed to construct 2,500,000 new housing units in 1988-92 . |
| 19 | For a long time , the study of accents was part of the subject of dialectology , which aimed to identify all the ways in which a language differed from place to place . |
| 20 | Moreover , there were customs in markets which aimed to protect standards and the emphasis was upon maintaining honesty and standards in trade . |
| 21 | She campaigned on behalf of the National Union of Women Teachers , the Women 's Election Committee , the Open Door Council ( which aimed to remove protective barriers that restricted women 's employment opportunities ) , and organizations concerned with the welfare of women and children in developing countries . |
| 22 | With the gradual extension of the franchise , and the growing powers of elected assemblies , parties acquired a more permanent organization , on a national scale ; but the next major development came only toward the end of the nineteenth century , with the advent of labour and socialist parties ( first in Germany and Austria ) which aimed to recruit a mass membership , not only as a way of financing election campaigns and other activities , but also as a means of political education and involvement . |
| 23 | Subsequent to the Minister 's announcement , NCVQ and SCOTVEC held discussions which aimed to ensure that an individual 's vocational achievements would receive recognition throughout the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization . |
| 25 | By 1884 it had become the Art Workers ' Guild , the hub of the Arts and Crafts Movement , which aimed to bring back all the fine and craft arts and to follow the writings of Ruskin and William Morris . |
| 26 | The book argues that the blitz should be seen in the same light as the Battle of the Atlantic , which aimed to inflict economic damage on Britain , rather than as a terror attack intended to undermine the morale of citizens . |
| 27 | The last two years of the Eighties saw a glut of products which aimed to fight the ageing process by boosting the skin 's metabolism , thus enabling it to carry out its own regenerative programme more effectively . |
| 28 | That survey inspired Edinburgh District Council 's Women 's Committee to organise a pioneering campaign which aimed to raise male awareness of the problem of crimes of violence against women . |
| 29 | The Arab League 's " troika " committee on Lebanon ( comprising Saudi Arabia , Morocco and Algeria — see p. 36669 ) announced on June 22 the establishment of an International Fund for Assisting Lebanon , which aimed to raise US$1,000 million to " serve reconstruction in Lebanon and reinject life in its economic structures " . |
| 30 | Roman law had found difficulty in accommodating dispositions which aimed to benefit third parties or to serve abstract purposes . |