Example sentences of "[noun] aimed at [verb] [art] [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 | The Washington-based Population Crisis Committee on Feb. 26 detailed a 10-year programme aimed at achieving a stable level of about 9,000 million by the middle of the 21st century . |
| 4 | It is part of a research programme aimed at understanding the basic processes causing damage to trees and crops due to atmospheric pollution . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | An MBA and a Diploma programme aimed at maximising the real benefits to be gained from investment in Information Technology . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On 21 May the RSPB is launching a campaign aimed at achieving a total ban on the import of wild-caught birds into Europe . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ENGINEERING employers are mounting a tactical offensive to cripple the union selective strike campaign aimed at winning an industry-wide hours cut for two million workers . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The 91,000-member Ramblers ' Association has put forward a three-point plan aimed at giving a better deal to urban pedestrians and those who prefer to travel on foot . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The astonishing success of the Commission 's initiative aimed at achieving a single EC market by 1992 inspired its President , Jacques Delors , strongly supported by the European Parliament and by several governments , to relaunch attempts to create an Economic and Monetary Union . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | President Delors , in Britain to give a lecture at the London School of Economics , hurried to Downing street at noon for a meeting aimed at avoiding a tit-for-tat trade war with the United States . |
| 21 | At the same time the government announced a package of new measures under which ( i ) the minimum wage was increased by 18 per cent from Nov. 18 ; ( ii ) a 40 per cent cut in income tax for those earning up to four times the minimum wage was to take effect in 1991 ; ( iii ) petrol prices were increased by 20 per cent and diesel oil , liquid gas and electricity prices by 30 per cent ; ( iv ) the peso 's rate of progressive devaluation against the US dollar was halved from 80 centavos to an " average " of 40 centavos a day , a depreciation rate of 5 per cent per year , as part of a anti-inflationary move aimed at fixing a future parity for the two currencies and stemming the flight of capital abroad . |
| 22 | Indeed , Bailey holds up for critical scrutiny the idea that schools can prepare young people for a world of rapid technological change by concentrating on the very technology which is subject to change ; rather , he suggests , the best basis for adaptability is a liberal education aimed at generating a wide understanding and the development of reason and autonomy . |
| 23 | The bill represented a compromise aimed at accommodating the strong reservations of many Christian Democrats , the senior government coalition partner . |
| 24 | More than half of the questionnaire was devoted to questions aimed at understanding the psychological and sociological mechanisms in risk taking . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Economic policy aimed at developing the Korean economy to serve the needs of Japan . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He accused the Supreme Council of allowing citizens ' political and social rights to be flouted , and of using " slogans of democracy as a cover for a policy aimed at restoring a bourgeois system " . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ego-strengthening therapies aimed at treating the emotional/mental/spiritual aspects without using drugs . |