Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] aimed at [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian colonial policies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were aimed at maximizing the income of the state by the subjection of aboriginal peoples to fur tribute . |
| 2 | Therapy was aimed at helping the parents establish a more balanced and satisfactory relationship , learning to negotiate rather than lapse into their habitual pattern of attack and withdraw at the same time as providing a reward programme for Luke just to sit on the lavatory . |
| 3 | His criticisms were aimed at portraying an excessive modernist preoccupation with formal innovation as the artistic accompaniment to a fundamentally misguided and despairing ideological stance , itself the product of the solitary and consequently socially blind existence of the contemporary bourgeois writer . |
| 4 | Her election by the Left Alliance 's executive committee was aimed at reversing the decline in electoral support for the 10-party alliance evidenced in the general election of April 1990 [ see p. 37388 ] . |
| 5 | Like all such schemes prepared by left-wing militants , this plan was aimed at putting the company in a ‘ Catch 22 ’ situation . |
| 6 | The BMA campaign was aimed at raising the profile of hepatitis B risk among medical students , junior doctors , occupational health physicians and deans of medical schools . |
| 7 | This period was aimed at developing a close working relationship , between the WGEC trainees and the client company , from the start of their careers . |
| 8 | He said that the government 's actions were aimed at bringing the two states closer and promoting integration . |
| 9 | The first name was aimed at keeping the initial ‘ L ’ in line with family tradition ; the second was much more significant , relating to the family 's Jewish ethos and hopes , as we shall see . |
| 10 | The authorities said that Hong Song-dam was not imprisoned merely for sending his paintings to North Korea and books to Koreans in Germany , but because his paintings and contributions to a magazine Art Movement were aimed at promoting a Marxist-Leninist revolution . |
| 11 | Government policy was aimed at reducing the number of smokers in the country and an advertising ban would go a good way to achieving this , he said . |
| 12 | Bacon 's method was aimed at discovering the formal causes of particular phenomena . |
| 13 | A proportion of patients admitted the overdose was aimed at influencing a partner or other person in close proximity . |
| 14 | Many of the proposals for re-establishing full employment in the aftermath of the 1979–81 recession were aimed at increasing the level of demand in the economy . |
| 15 | Primary or public health standards were aimed at protecting the most susceptible part of the population from adverse effects , with an adequate margin of safety being included , while the more stringent secondary standards were aimed at protecting public welfare , such as damage to vegetation , wildlife , materials , and so on . |
| 16 | According to an Associated Press report on Feb. 6 , an offensive launched by Sihanoukist and KPNLF guerrillas in the north-west was aimed at extending the " liberated zones " to prevent attacks on United States-funded development programmes in these areas . |
| 17 | Much of the early work of the Project was aimed at identifying the training needs of those who already do or would like to work as community interpreters and also at considering the needs of the staff working in statutory services who have to work through interpreters . |
| 18 | The Praesidium , headed by President Gorbachev , said many of these laws were aimed at strengthening the ‘ economic and political independence and ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens ’ . |
| 19 | The Praesidium , headed by President Gorbachev , said many of these laws were aimed at strengthening the ‘ economic and political independence and ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens ’ . |
| 20 | The ongoing renovation of the political system was aimed at producing a fully socialist democratic system . |
| 21 | It might be that the survey was aimed at testing a hypothesis that happily-married couples tend to vote more conservatively , while unhappily married couples vote more radically , but if this was not apparent to the informant the questions on marital relations would probably seem irrelevant and impertinent . |
| 22 | That measure was aimed at tackling the menace of the casual carrying of knives on the streets to which the hon. Member for Leyton drew attention . |
| 23 | Specific recommendations were aimed at strengthening the police , in manpower , efficiency and pay , and speeding up the process of amalgamating local forces . |