Example sentences of "[noun] aim [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was ‘ the ‘ Child Art ’ movement , now an established practice aimed at encouraging the creative side of young children — a reaction against the imitative nature of previous [ art ] teaching' ( Gordon and Lawton , 1978 , p. 218 ) . |
| 2 | Some employers may not run courses for groups of returners but instead offer to help you plan a personal programme of study aimed at satisfying the same requirements . |
| 3 | It is part of a research programme aimed at understanding the basic processes causing damage to trees and crops due to atmospheric pollution . |
| 4 | Applications are invited for the post of Scientific Officer/Higher Scientific Officer to work with Dr Noel Buckley in a research programme aimed at examining the transcriptional control of neurotransmitter receptor gene expression . |
| 5 | An MBA and a Diploma programme aimed at maximising the real benefits to be gained from investment in Information Technology . |
| 6 | Native peoples from the US state of Alaska have formed a coalition aimed at persuading the scientific establishment to draw on their traditional methods of observing and understanding nature . |
| 7 | However , we fear it is becoming so intense that many members of the Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council 's Planning Committee are in danger of losing sight of their duty to have regard to vital Government planning guidance aimed at protecting the open countryside from unnecessary development . |
| 8 | One way of reassuring the thousands of well-behaved fans , who might well be turned away for ever , is to back up disciplinary action with a publicity campaign aimed at showing the better side of club football . |
| 9 | The shadow social security secretary , Donald Dewar , and Labour 's Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , described their anger at the worsening situation when unveiling a rolling campaign aimed at highlighting the rising level of poverty across Scotland . |
| 10 | The directive was part of a plan aimed at reducing the estimated unemployment rate of between 8 and 10 per cent by doubling the percentage of Bahrainis working in the private sector to 50 per cent by mid-1994 . |
| 11 | When the late Shah 's father ( Reza Shah Pahlavi ) came to power in 1924 he began a programme of sponsorship aimed at elevating the Persian rug industry to levels of excellence that had not been seen since the Golden Age of the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 12 | UN-sponsored talks involving 45 cocoa producing and consumer nations ended inconclusively on Nov. 13 after two weeks of protracted negotiations in Geneva aimed at replacing the 1986 cocoa agreement due to expire in September 1993 . |
| 13 | TALKS between British Airways and Virgin Atlantic aimed at settling the so-called dirty tricks affair last night looked likely to continue into a fourth day . |
| 14 | However , people have since realised they have been lured into a debt trap aimed at bringing the working class to heel , with unemployment the main weapon . |
| 15 | After the abortive attempt to meet in Malawi in June [ see p. 37561 ] , the first direct talks between the Frelimo government and the MNR rebels aimed at ending the 15-year civil war finally took place in Rome on July 8-10 . |
| 16 | Uncertainty over Mr Mulroney 's future has existed since the defeat in a referendum last October of his government 's proposals for constitutional reform aimed at solving the separatist dispute in French-speaking Quebec . |
| 17 | The bill represented a compromise aimed at accommodating the strong reservations of many Christian Democrats , the senior government coalition partner . |
| 18 | More than half of the questionnaire was devoted to questions aimed at understanding the psychological and sociological mechanisms in risk taking . |
| 19 | To be honest , the evidence for druids having ever performed such grisly ceremonies is very dubious and the whole thing is probably nothing other than a piece of Romano-Christian propaganda aimed at destroying the pagan religion of the Celts . |
| 20 | STAGE PRESENCE Lowden LSE-11 Lowden 's thin-bodied stage'n'studio acoustic aims at striking the perfect balance between acoustic tone and amplified usability … |
| 21 | Economic policy aimed at developing the Korean economy to serve the needs of Japan . |
| 22 | The National Bank said that for 1990 it had to adhere to a strict monetary policy aimed at keeping the hard currency account deficit under $550,000,000 , that of the state budget under 10,000 million forints and inflation under 19 per cent — conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) when it approved an agreement to pave the way for additional foreign loans to maintain the country 's creditworthiness . |
| 23 | What is more , where numbers are concerned , it might be argued , any reductivist argument aimed at undermining the logical independence of relations is doomed from the start . |
| 24 | ego-strengthening therapies aimed at treating the emotional/mental/spiritual aspects without using drugs . |
| 25 | At its most ambitious and sophisticated this strategy aimed at bringing the raw subjectivity of the student or pupil into palpable contact with that very stuff of life considered to inhere within the " sacred " text . |
| 26 | Mr Alton and Derbyshire Labour MP Harry Barnes today introduced a private members bill aimed at improving the electoral registration system . |
| 27 | THE West Indies fear that fines aimed at enforcing the 90 overs-a-day rule for Tests could see them return penniless from their tour of Australia . |
| 28 | TIGHTER hygiene controls aimed at stopping the worrying growth in food poisoning cases come into effect today . |
| 29 | Few , certainly , espoused revolutionary ideas in 1931 ; the party 's immediate task , it was generally agreed , was to press for legislation aimed at assisting the working class and , in particular , the impoverished landless labourers of the south . |
| 30 | This need is currently most acute in relation to the measures aimed at implementing the Social Charter , in that the measures proposed have a more profound effect on the activities and cost structures of companies in the UK than other Member States . |