Example sentences of "which [verb] at [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first we call the " factual survey " , which aims at collecting facts about the conditions of populations . |
| 2 | Any policy which aims at exorcising envy and the concomitant sense of guilt — the reason why so many intellectually eminent individuals are attracted to levelling doctrines , because they aspire to purge the sense of guilt to which eminence itself is prone — by measures of social or economic equalisation is foredoomed to failure , because it rests on the false presumption that envy and envy-guilt exist only because they are ‘ justified ’ , because the materials exist on which they feed . |
| 3 | Any activity which aims at preventing fire is a component of the AL of maintaining a safe environment . |
| 4 | For example , a recent German study , which aimed at controlling blood phenylalanine concentrations between 60 and 300 µmol/l , produced IQ results no better than those in British subjects , in whom the aim was more relaxed control ( 180–600 µmol/l ) , though the blood phenylalanine value was on average 100 µmol/l lower in the German subjects . |
| 5 | These policies achieved quite a lot : ‘ By 1966 businesses had begun to reestablish profits through policies which aimed at reducing unit costs . |
| 6 | Government and TRNC forces on May 17 , 1989 , abandoned 24 military positions along the Green Line dividing Nicosia , as part of a pullback agreement brokered by the UN Peace-Keeping Force in Cyprus ( UNFICYP ) , which aimed at reducing tension along the buffer zone . |