Example sentences of "[noun pl] aimed at [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The progressive dismantling of regional development policy since 1979 has moved more swiftly than steps aimed at deregulating the housing sector . |
| 2 | The European Commission has proposed fresh steps aimed at regulating the trade , which Greenpeace has said should be banned . |
| 3 | It would use a mixture of field checks , aerial photography and remote sensing to calculate the extent of logging , as part of stepped up efforts to ensure that timber firms comply with government guidelines aimed at conserving the forest reserves . |
| 4 | Such a system could incorporate images to be construed ; hold relevant information to be drawn upon as required ; include a capacity to enlarge or select from the image under consideration ; provide cues aimed at stimulating a search for undiscovered features or ideas and be partially interactive in a non-verbal mode by means of direct pointing with a light pen . |
| 5 | Furthermore , in dietary trials aimed at reducing the risk of colon cancer in which these parameters were repeatedly evaluated , the same stability has been noted in control patients . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Under these arrangements , social workers would become case managers , designing packages aimed at achieving the most effective combination of services within the resources available . |
| 8 | There will also be targets aimed at reducing the incidence of strokes , heart disease and preventable cancers . |
| 9 | In reaction to a larger-than-expected budget deficit the government had proposed cuts in public spending totalling 12,800 million guilders ( about US$7,400 million ) and increases in revenue totalling 4,700 million guilders aimed at balancing the budget by 1994 . |
| 10 | However , this represents the shape of things to come , with the first type increasingly in the ascendancy aided and abetted by the demand for cheap food and the agricultural policies of successive governments aimed at ensuring the expansion of home production . |
| 11 | Well , the Chancellor 's budget was fairly low-key in general but there were significant changes aimed at helping the labour shortage in the region . |
| 12 | MORE than 40 sweeping law changes aimed at banishing the penalty-ridden , slow-coach version of rugby football were adopted by the International Rugby Board yesterday . |
| 13 | Despite such policy reform , and procedural changes aimed at increasing the NEA 's accountability for tax dollars , three newspapers want more . |
| 14 | The objective of the study was to determine which aspects of the UK government 's implementation of the Less Favoured Areas Directive are responsible for the agriculture/nature conservation conflict and to recommend changes aimed at retaining a predominantly agricultural land use in the uplands without further loss and degradation of its unique nature conservation interest . |
| 15 | It is the latest in a series of studies aimed at determining the cause of especially poor health statistics in parts of the North-East . |
| 16 | The researcher , Dr John R. Darsee , was found to have fabricated research data during studies aimed at assessing the effectiveness of drugs in limiting damage to the heart muscle after a heart attack . |
| 17 | Security Council resolutions aimed at getting the Iraqis out of Kuwait were a model of collective action against aggression . |
| 18 | The Egyptian government responded to the attack with dismay , claiming that it had been " primarily directed against the efforts aimed at advancing the peace process in the region " . |
| 19 | The questionnaire for the survey began with a few brief factual questions about personal details , and a second , more important part of the schedule contained batteries of questions aimed at measuring an individual 's standing on the scales mentioned earlier . |
| 20 | More than half of the questionnaire was devoted to questions aimed at understanding the psychological and sociological mechanisms in risk taking . |
| 21 | Latent inhibition goes on in all experiments aimed at revealing the nature of stimulus representations and often acts to mask the effects under investigation . |
| 22 | This provides a basis for site-directed mutagenesis and co-crystallization experiments aimed at understanding the binding of GH5 to the nucleosome . |
| 23 | Alongside national changes went directives aimed at increasing the power of elected local authorities , especially in education and police administration where the power of central bureaucrats was too dominant . |
| 24 | It considers the various pension reforms aimed at breaking the link between poverty and old age , and concludes by examining how the Thatcher Government 's scaling down of SERPS ( the State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme ) will ensure that today 's underclass take their poverty into old age . |
| 25 | Reforms aimed at refashioning the welfare state , so that it acts as a floor on which the underclass can build by their own efforts , rather than a ceiling through which it is impossible for them to pass , are considered in Part IV . |
| 26 | The new government which took power on Dec. 10 , 1989 [ see p. 37106 ] , immediately embarked on a programme of constitutional and political reforms aimed at dismantling the system erected by the CPCz in over 40 years of one-party rule . |
| 27 | The negotiators failed to sign the formal agreement on Jan. 18 , 1990 , however , because the South insisted on the inclusion of supplementary items aimed at guaranteeing the implementation of the agreement . |
| 28 | After a period of political upheaval precipitated by an attempted coup in March 1990 [ see pp. 37314-15 ] , the government lifted the state of emergency in May and endorsed constitutional amendments aimed at ending the PDPA 's monopoly on political power [ for its renaming in June see p. 37530 ] and introducing multiparty democracy . |
| 29 | ego-strengthening therapies aimed at treating the emotional/mental/spiritual aspects without using drugs . |
| 30 | Pleas for the retention of cantarists are suspect as ploys aimed at keeping the endowments in the parish . |