Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] aim at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But until very recently systems were generally aimed at the top end of the market , and the cost was high enough to make acquisition a major undertaking . |
| 2 | Many of the banners carried by demonstrations were specifically aimed at the anti-immigration policies advocated by the National Front . |
| 3 | They were explicitly aimed at the unrespectable poor , subjecting their children to the full disciplinary regime of the new training schools . |
| 4 | It was just aimed at the wrong person . ’ |
| 5 | This was directly aimed at the ‘ surplus countries ’ , especially Japan and Germany , and was an attempt to bind them into a system where they could not pile up persistent surpluses . |
| 6 | The prosecution says it was deliberately aimed at the inspector 's head . |
| 7 | The bulk of the whip was always aimed at the tightly-curved cheeks of her arse , but the tip flicked indiscriminately on to her thighs and belly , and sometimes snaked into the tender cleft between her plump twin moons . |
| 8 | David Blunkett , Labour 's local government spokesman , said the announcement meant that the Government had admitted defeat over the poll tax , and that the money was solely aimed at the next election . |
| 9 | In the fist half of his speech , the right hon. Gentleman complained that the Bill was irrelevant , that it did nothing , that it was wholly superfluous and was simply aimed at the headlines . |
| 10 | The condemnation by Pecham of those seizing and wasting church property was particularly aimed at the king 's exploitation of the temporal lands of vacant bishoprics . |
| 11 | It was , for its time , quite a capable machine , being blessed with 64k of Random Access Memory ( RAM ) and was initially aimed at the home user . |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing Mr Bush said was specifically aimed at the profession — no-one gets elected on the strength of helping accountants — but there is hope . ’ |