Example sentences of "[was/were] aim [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What the hell , ’ the Maggot said , and he wrenched the plane round in a tight turn until we were aimed plumb at the island 's southernmost tip , then he dropped the nose ready to make one high speed and low level pass above the Cay . |
| 2 | If he were aimed specifically at the race another time he would probably go very close . |
| 3 | Can you co up again if you can co I 'm going back to The reason being that the approach to the business was one of quality and a large amount of hand-finishing , and , the leathers were aimed mainly at the , saddlery and leather goods trade and also only at the very top end of the shoe trade . |
| 4 | Hence , this was the first of his conference performances which was aimed primarily at the nation . |
| 5 | His preaching was aimed primarily at the understanding and the conscience of his hearers . |
| 6 | For Whitehouse , Neville 's avowed ‘ revolutionary ’ stance was aimed particularly at the young and innocent and was a form of ‘ ideological warfare ’ from which they needed to be protected . |
| 7 | In a written statement Bush claimed that the legislation , which was aimed partly at the sale of chemical weapons technology to Iraq , had been vetoed because it " would severely constrain presidential authority in carrying out foreign policy " . |
| 8 | This was aimed less at the poor themselves than at those able to help them and ‘ not able to make use of Physitians and Chirurgians ’ . |
| 9 | Moreover , the election plan , Shamir said , was aimed only at the " inhabitants of Judaea , Samaria [ the West Bank ] and Gaza " ; PLO representatives and East Jerusalem Arabs could not be participants . |
| 10 | ‘ Panic ’ , the single , edged its way onto the radio playlists ; strange really as ‘ Panic ’ , the single , was aimed directly at the heart of Radio One idiocy . |
| 11 | The Home Office granted her political asylum with uncharacteristic haste and from then on she was interviewed constantly by every newspaper and radio network represented in Britain — including , of course , the BBC 's German language service , which was aimed directly at the East Zone . |