Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] aimed at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spurs Club was aimed at a deaf membership that did not use sign language . |
| 2 | Despite a heavyweight ( and possibly counterproductive ) lobbying effort by the tobacco companies , its March 14th vote was aimed at a complete ban on all tobacco advertising — a business worth £46m in Britain in 1988 . |
| 3 | It is thought the bomb was aimed at a member of the security forces . |
| 4 | Although shops were wrecked in the attack , it is now clear that the bomb was aimed at the security forces rather than commercial properties . |
| 5 | All this bristling weaponry was aimed at a line of about forty men standing against the wall . |
| 6 | But yesterday Mr Fallon said his comments were aimed at the local education authority and not the schools themselves . |
| 7 | There were men out there , workmen driving animals and carrying torches whose beams were aimed at the ground . |
| 8 | The attack was aimed at the motor vehicle . |
| 9 | The New Right attack was aimed at the social democratic consensus of the postwar years , a consensus which , as discussed earlier , was founded on the intellectual ascendancy of Fabian socialism underpinned by values of equality , equity , efficiency and social integration . |
| 10 | If these benefits were aimed at the poor — the people who really need them — instead of at everybody , public spending and the taxes required to finance it could fall sharply . |
| 11 | Western powers were wrong to believe that tsarist troops in Poland were aimed at the heart of Europe , for they were needed where they were . |
| 12 | Injection A was aimed at the representation of the fovea . |