Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] aimed at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Made with 1.4 , 1.6 and 1.8 litre petrol engines , the Tempras are agile performers aimed at the business users ' market . |
2 | In the special election to complete Heinz 's term , his platform had emphasized the need to switch from social programmes aimed at the poor to programmes offering something to average non-affluent US citizens , especially on health care ; to cut middle class taxes ; to boost unemployment benefits ; and to protect jobs from low-wage Mexico 's competition ( a reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement currently in the final stages of negotiation ) . |
3 | The release of the prisoners , which had been widely anticipated following the successful visit of a joint Liberal Democratic Party and Japan Socialist Party delegation to North Korea in September , was interpreted as an important gesture of conciliation and as a means of clearing the way for further talks aimed at the eventual establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries . |
4 | In the early conceptualization , the ego instincts served to preserve the individual , and the sexual instincts aimed at the preservation , through reproduction , of the species . |
5 | A proper balance needs to be struck between essential protection for the public , and over-zealous and intrusive controls aimed at the elimination of all conceivable risk . |
6 | The negotiations were inconclusive on the main issue of secession but a relaxation of the blockade was agreed and a commitment made for future talks aimed at a final settlement . |
7 | Huxley 's answer was to stress the role of evolutionary morphology , the detailed study of organic structures aimed at the reconstruction of the links between the major living groups . |
8 | Among its first acts in office , the new government , committed to sweeping economic reforms aimed at the introduction of a market-based economy , announced on Dec. 11 , 1989 , that Czechoslovakia was applying for membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank . |
9 | In the first such case in the UK , Leeds-based John Richardson Computers Ltd has successfully argued that copyright should protect the look and feel of a program ; the court decided that a plaintiff does not need to show source code has been copied to prove infringement , and that copying non-literal aspects of a program , such as structure and organisation , could well constitute infringement ; the company 's dispute arose with a former employee over rival applications aimed at the pharmaceutical industry ; in the past , copyright cases have dealt exclusively with copying of actual program code . |
10 | The report also urges the Bush Administration to play a more constructive role in the present round of international negotiations aimed at a treaty on limiting global warming . |
11 | How much better in the long run for companies , auditors and regulation generally if auditors would have the courage to make timely representations aimed at a general ruling , in these circumstances , assuming that they have failed to persuade the client not to proceed and that the grounds for an audit qualification are uncertain . |
12 | An assembly of nine essays aimed at the informed specialist , on aspects of Ruskin 's links with tradition . |
13 | The second compilation disk of 8 programs aimed at the 4 to 9 year old range . |
14 | What is needed are peaceful campaigns aimed at the whaling communities via public demonstrations ; Japan is not averse to these measures , as the countrywide anti-nuclear demonstrations show . |
15 | The results of this research will have practical implications for current educational programmes aimed at the prevention of sexual and other forms of child abuse , and theoretical significance for our understanding of children 's theory of mind . |
16 | The five-part agreement included a promise of UK aid , in the form of technology and expertise , to Brazilian projects aimed at the " sustainable development of the Amazon rainforest " . |
17 | Guitar magazines devote much of their space to equipment reviews that are , nine times out of ten , merely a plug for the manufacturer , when the magazine could be putting subscribers ' money to good use by running more informative and educational articles aimed at the musician eager for knowledge and not glossy adverts ! |
18 | The present purely taxonomic treatment relies on a series of pictorial keys aimed at the non specialist . |
19 | There existed other newspapers aimed at the European market , such as the daily Tanganyika Opinion and the weekly Tanganyika Advertiser , but their circulations were low and they mostly disappeared long before independence . |
20 | So where does that leave a privatised Post Office , particularly with its range of fancy commemorative stamps aimed at the philatelic market , each with its tiny silhouette of the Queen in the corner ? |
21 | I REFER to the slanderous reports aimed at the leader of the Opposition that is , supposed collusion with the Communists . |
22 | Considering the overall sound quality and taking into account how much is in such a compact package the retail price of a touch under £1500 might seem a tad high , but it compares more than favourably with reel-to-reel machines aimed at the same market . |
23 | The Soviet proposal was presented as a means to ease tension not only in the Persian Gulf ‘ but also as a result of that in a much bigger area where militaristic actions aimed at the Gulf region have already increased tension ’ , especially in the Horn of Africa . |