Example sentences of "[noun] was aimed at [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | Like all such schemes prepared by left-wing militants , this plan was aimed at putting the company in a ‘ Catch 22 ’ situation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This period was aimed at developing a close working relationship , between the WGEC trainees and the client company , from the start of their careers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bacon 's method was aimed at discovering the formal causes of particular phenomena . |
| 9 | A proportion of patients admitted the overdose was aimed at influencing a partner or other person in close proximity . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The ongoing renovation of the political system was aimed at producing a fully socialist democratic system . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |