Example sentences of "[noun prp] aim at [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baker and Shevardnadze also examined progress on , and expressed support for , the talks mediated by Portugal aimed at settling the conflict in Angola [ see pp. 37643 ; 37702 ; 37842 ; 37910 ] . |
| 2 | The Indian Prime Minister , V. P. Singh , stated in an interview on June 3 that a set of new proposals had been sent to Pakistan aimed at reducing the risk of war over Kashmir . |
| 3 | The government on Dec. 27 announced that negotiations with the United States aimed at allowing the withdrawal of US forces from Subic Bay naval base to be phased over a three-year period had broken down . |
| 4 | UN-sponsored talks involving 45 cocoa producing and consumer nations ended inconclusively on Nov. 13 after two weeks of protracted negotiations in Geneva aimed at replacing the 1986 cocoa agreement due to expire in September 1993 . |
| 5 | TALKS between British Airways and Virgin Atlantic aimed at settling the so-called dirty tricks affair last night looked likely to continue into a fourth day . |
| 6 | In August 1930 representatives of republican organizations signed a pact at San Sebastián aimed at overthrowing the monarchy ; in October the Spanish Socialist Party joined the republicans in a ‘ Revolutionary Committee ’ ; and in December a premature and unsuccessful rising of pro-republican army officers in Jaca ( Aragon ) provided the cause with its first ‘ martyrs ’ . |
| 7 | The formula was part of peace talks in London aimed at ending the misery in the former Yugoslav republic . |
| 8 | All these factors led the LTC to propose a pilot project to the DES aimed at investigating the feasibility of recruiting unemployed German and French language teachers and offering them a one-term induction course at the LTC prior to their applying for posts to teach in schools in the UK from September 1990 . |
| 9 | Remote sensing , engineering geophysics and hydrogeological techniques are being used in a study in south-east Zimbabwe aimed at improving the success rate of boreholes and dug wells so as to improve the provision of a reliable supply of clean water to rural communities in developing countries , particularly in semiarid tropical regions where droughts are frequent . |