Example sentences of "[conj] aim at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was said that the act had to be directed or aimed at the victim .
2 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 .
3 It was agreed to harmonize fiscal incentives for investors and to aim at the creation of a monetary union by 1995 .
4 V6028 plunged through a hail of flak , dodging balloon cables and aiming at the centre of the docks .
5 Maltote , watched by all , loaded the arbalest and aimed at the door .
6 If you lay on the ground whining it incensed them and the subsequent kicks and punches were harder and aimed at the mouth and head rather than the stomach and back .
7 Veritas has arranged to support Destiny with a cut-down version of its file system dubbed the Journaling File System and aimed at the desktop : the full product will come along later as a server upgrade .
8 The last he had heard she had returned to Ponten VI — the planet which had been ceded to the Guild of Adjudicators in perpetuity by a wary but appreciative Earth Central — but that was too far away for anything but the so-called pigeon post ; recorded messages dumped into a hyperdrone and aimed at the recipient 's projected location .
9 Soviet Persian language broadcasts described the Soviet Gulf plan as aimed at the defence of the Persian Gulf countries against any foreign intervention and at securing the self-determination of the regional nations , including Iran .
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