Example sentences of "aiming at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often they gave priority to foreign markets outside Europe , usually aiming at the USA as the biggest and best entry point for a global marketing strategy ; this might involve buying struggling American companies , which continued to make losses . |
| 2 | Forget the flourish of the big white napkin , forget two thumbs on the cork 's corona , forget aiming at the bulbs in the recessed ceiling-lights . |
| 3 | The French guns were firing at the flanks of the Prince 's position ; aiming at the farmhouses to east and west . |
| 4 | Our data may , however , serve as a basis for further studies aiming at the identification of regulatory factors ( for example , hormones , lymphokines , cytokines ) that modulate the expression and function of integrins of colorectal cancer cells . |
| 5 | V6028 plunged through a hail of flak , dodging balloon cables and aiming at the centre of the docks . |
| 6 | Fergus was lying on the couch , aiming at the centre of the ceiling . |
| 7 | Young photographers aiming at the poster market have taken to copying his style . |
| 8 | Several hotel and leisure groups are already beginning to diversify into this field : they are aiming at the top and more lucrative end of the market , charging fees well above the DSS limits . |
| 9 | His publishers are now aiming at the US market , and Hutson is touring America next year to promote Heathen . |
| 10 | It is easy to understand the hulk , whose only cricketing merit is the ability to bowl faster than others , aiming at the batsman 's head . |
| 11 | The minority , including Eleanor Rathbone , while not opposed to the redistribution of income in favour of the poor ( Rathbone , 1949 , p. 29 ) , argued that they should also be aiming at the redistribution of income in favour of those with family responsibilities within each income group . |
| 12 | A French force was advancing northwards from Charleroi , probably aiming at the gap between the British and Prussian armies . |
| 13 | The government 's ambitious reforms aiming at the revitalization of the national economy and the introduction of a fully operating free-market mechanism , outlined by Antall in May 1990 [ see p. 37465 ] , incorporated privatization , together with efforts to increase exports , to enter the world economy and to attract foreign investment . |
| 14 | Certainly , the Serbian forces have publicly admitted that they had targeted the regional museum in Sarajevo : early last month the BBC 's war reporter Kate Adie quoted the Serbian explanation of why they had shelled the hotel which houses all the foreign correspondents : apparently they were aiming at the roof of the museum ( which contains the Bosnian anthropological material ) and missed . |
| 15 | Aiming at the Continentals , Japanese and travelling Americans from the Hotel Bristol |
| 16 | When threatened , you attack , aiming at the vulnerability exposed in the other . |