Example sentences of "[det] [noun] aim at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The operator will keep this beam aimed at the target while the missile , which has sensitive detectors at its back end , will steer down the centre of the beam .
2 It is northing more than another attack aimed at the trade unions under the government 's Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill , and takes absolutely no account of the additional hardship it will impose on our members .
3 For example , any technique aimed at the throat , or applied to the joints , groin , or instep , will merit a penalty .
4 In an interview for L'Humanité published on 5 April Karmal rejected ‘ any plan aimed at the adoption of decisions in our stead ’ , including efforts ‘ to bind us to a so-called ‘ neutralisation ’ , which represents in fact only one of the forms of neo-colonialism ’ .
5 If , as the psychodynamic school believes , obesity is fundamentally a psychological problem , it follows that treatment should ideally be aimed at the mind rather than at the body , and that treatment aimed at the body will leave the underlying psychological problem unaltered or even aggravated , similar objections were and still are levelled against behavioural treatments which allegedly deal only with ‘ symptoms ’ , leaving the underlying problem to spring up anew .
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