Example sentences of "[noun pl] aimed at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Guitar magazines devote much of their space to equipment reviews that are , nine times out of ten , merely a plug for the manufacturer , when the magazine could be putting subscribers ' money to good use by running more informative and educational articles aimed at the musician eager for knowledge and not glossy adverts !
2 If , as they themselves admitted , the Communists aimed at the supersession of the ILP , it was obviously dangerous and foolish to help them in their work .
3 Huxley 's answer was to stress the role of evolutionary morphology , the detailed study of organic structures aimed at the reconstruction of the links between the major living groups .
4 The alternative is massive retaliation by missiles aimed at the enemy 's cities , which will stay put .
5 Among its first acts in office , the new government , committed to sweeping economic reforms aimed at the introduction of a market-based economy , announced on Dec. 11 , 1989 , that Czechoslovakia was applying for membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank .
6 In addition to the gaudy and often poorly woven bazaar items aimed at the tourist market , there are a number of very attractive nomadic items being made by various , mainly Berber and Bedouin , tribesmen throughout North Africa .
7 It is important that we do not altogether ignore videodiscs aimed at the consumer market .
8 That is the opinion of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation ( UNIDO ) which has teamed up with Apple , a leading American maker of microcomputers , to produce a package of programs aimed at the finance ministries of developing countries .
9 A proper balance needs to be struck between essential protection for the public , and over-zealous and intrusive controls aimed at the elimination of all conceivable risk .
10 Head of Sport Dave Hill stood at Selhurst Park on Monday night , deafened by wolf-whistles and dinner invitations aimed at the dancing Sky Strikers , and remarked : ‘ The punters hate it , do n't they ? ’
11 During the battle between the two , which began an hour before sunset on 24 April 1778 off Kilroot Point near Carrickfergus , Jones kept his distance , disabling his opponent by cannon fire and pistol shots aimed at the crew until , resistance having ceased , a boarding party was sent across , to find the decks running with blood and rum — a keg , brought out prematurely to celebrate the expected victory , had been breached by a cannon ball — and the Drake was taken in tow .
12 The report also urges the Bush Administration to play a more constructive role in the present round of international negotiations aimed at a treaty on limiting global warming .
13 The visit ended on Sept. 28 with the signing of a communiqué which called for negotiations aimed at the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries .
14 In September 1990 a Japanese delegation visited North Korea [ see pp. 37714 ] The visit was a success , a communiqué was signed calling for negotiations aimed at the restoration of diplomatic relations , and two Japanese seamen detained in the North since 1983 were released in October [ see p. 37779 ] .
15 I REFER to the slanderous reports aimed at the leader of the Opposition that is , supposed collusion with the Communists .
16 What is needed are peaceful campaigns aimed at the whaling communities via public demonstrations ; Japan is not averse to these measures , as the countrywide anti-nuclear demonstrations show .
17 Mr Greene claimed that in Britain campaigns aimed at the population as a whole had been shown to have been a waste of money and there had been a change of policy to target the high-risk groups such as homosexuals and intravenous drug users .
18 Discussions aimed at the reduction of military manpower under the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) signed in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] , known as the CFE-1A talks , resumed in Vienna on Sept. 5 after being adjourned in March following a formal suspension in February [ see pp. 38027 ; 38122 ; 38217 ; 38314 ] .
19 Evidence that illustrates this point come from investigations aimed at the notion of ‘ learned safety ’ .
20 However , the social security system has played a central role in these processes as an element of government economic management , particularly where it has been used to support employment policies aimed at the exclusion of increasing numbers of older people from the labour market .
21 Ministries of Health throughout the world , however , have been converted , largely under the influence of doctors , into ministries of illness , in which policies aimed at the maintenance of health and the avoidance of illness have been ignored or left to others , with little understanding of their true nature .
22 The results of this research will have practical implications for current educational programmes aimed at the prevention of sexual and other forms of child abuse , and theoretical significance for our understanding of children 's theory of mind .
23 A mix of short term policy oriented research and longer term projects aimed at the development of theory is pursued , which reflects the Centre 's intention to promote contacts between researchers and those more directly involved in policy and practice .
24 Made with 1.4 , 1.6 and 1.8 litre petrol engines , the Tempras are agile performers aimed at the business users ' market .
25 Overall , Sun is putting in place commercial software tools aimed at the development of new client/server applications , the cross-development of hosted applications and the migration of existing applications .
26 Work on new graphics , reporting and integration tools aimed at the EIS market is underway , but the firm is steering clear of application development per se for the time being .
27 Work on new graphics , reporting and integration tools aimed at the executive information systems market is under way , but the firm is steering clear of application development per se for the time being .
28 In the early conceptualization , the ego instincts served to preserve the individual , and the sexual instincts aimed at the preservation , through reproduction , of the species .
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