Example sentences of "[verb] be aimed at [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything he has done has been aimed at bringing the country to dictatorship , to presidential rule as they call it . |
| 2 | If he is beginning to share the public anxiety about standards in our schools , he should be ashamed of himself for having resisted each and every reform that has been aimed at reversing the trend and improving them . |
| 3 | Ideally , scanning is aimed at alerting the organisation to potentially significant external impingements before they have fully formed or crystallised . |
| 4 | The spokesman said the report had been aimed at overshadowing the Qods Day protest , held on the last Friday of Ramadan since the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dedicated the day to anti-Israeli demonstrations in 1979 . |
| 5 | The Finance Minister Crispus Kiyonga on July 3 , 1989 , presented a budget for 1989/90 ( the fiscal year starting on July 1 , 1989 ) which he said was aimed at strengthening the balance of payments and at reducing inflation , but which nevertheless would provide for a 40 per cent salary increase for civil servants . |
| 6 | NINETEEN blacks were massacred at a taxi-rank near Johannesburg last night in an attack the African National Congress said was aimed at derailing the transition to majority rule . |