Example sentences of "[Wh det] aimed [verb] [art] " 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 | In September 1989 a draft law was presented which aimed to facilitate a large-scale privatization programme over the next five years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A budget was finally passed on Oct. 28 , which aimed to reduce the country 's budget deficit by $41,400 million [ see pp. 37704 ; 37768 ] . |
| 14 | Accordingly a series of steps were taken which aimed to establish an academic culture within which evaluation activities were widespread and respected ; evaluation skills and expertise were readily available ; and evaluation gradually became an expected element in the body of knowledge and skills possessed by professional higher education practitioners . |
| 15 | Congress on Feb. 4 approved a further extension of unemployment benefits which aimed to provide an additional 13 weeks of benefits to some 2,000,000 unemployed workers , many of whose benefits were about to expire . |
| 16 | H. E. Alexander describes the four basic aspects to this legislation as public disclosure of the monetary influences on elected officers , expenditure limits to meet the problem of rising costs , contribution restrictions to meet the problem of candidates obligating themselves to certain interest groups , and public funding which aimed to provide an alternative source of funding to replace the prohibited and limited contributions under FECA . |
| 17 | To help absorb the effects , BP set up a company called D'Arcy Developments , which aimed to help the unemployed set up in business . |
| 18 | The church was finished in 1845 , with fittings which aimed to reproduce the mediaeval prototypes as authentically as possible . |
| 19 | France on Aug. 3 signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty , which aimed to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons . |