Example sentences of "[am/are] aim at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Several hotel and leisure groups are already beginning to diversify into this field : they are aiming at the top and more lucrative end of the market , charging fees well above the DSS limits . |
2 | Both the cycle of gifts and of offence and revenge are aimed at the preservation or accumulation of symbolic capital . |
3 | There is a constant danger of losing sight of the young reader , a loss apparent in exquisite pictures that are too complex or more concerned with technique than content ; that are too concerned with nostalgia ( triggering the adult memory with steam engines and tram-cars , with gas masks and barrage-balloons ) ; books that are aimed at the coffee-table rather than the children ; and books that are too ‘ good ’ to handle . |
4 | The 3050LC machines are aimed at the office market and run Hitachi 's Ofis office automation software . |
5 | If your rockets are aimed at the rocket bases on the other side — a strategy known as ‘ counter-force ’ — there is no point in firing second , after those enemy rockets have been launched . |
6 | The layout of the A2 could n't be simpler , although I 'm surprised that the word ‘ guitar ’ does n't appear anywhere on it , for while it 's true the A2 is an effects processor for any instrument , the bulk of its sounds are aimed at the guitarist . |