Example sentences of "to aim at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his interest grew as he worked , and he began to aim at a comprehensive expository commentary on Epicurus . |
| 2 | It therefore has to aim at a carefully judged angle to the apparent direction if it is going to score a hit . |
| 3 | His manager , Simon , who was also Cyril 's elder brother , had persuaded him to lower his sights — or rather to aim at a different and better target . |
| 4 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 5 | While the Government would like to aim at an insurance pool of around £500m a year , the industry thinks this would be optimistic . |
| 6 | What prompts him to this unexpected adjective is that ( as Bunting stressed ) the poems these men admired were not ‘ simplified to aim at the poor ’ , but ‘ written for a hard intellectual audience ’ . |
| 7 | their demand for control can not be restricted to one of self-government within the enterprise , but it will have to aim at the development of a complex institutional system that will be able to strike a balance between the need for worker autonomy within the enterprise on the one hand , and the need for economic co-ordination at higher economic levels on the other . |
| 8 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |
| 9 | He urged his men to aim at the cannon themselves ; but this was difficult to do with such clumsy pieces , with considerable trial and error involved . |
| 10 | He began to aim at the other man , who was reloading his Luger , but was stopped by the Doctor 's hand on his shoulder . |
| 11 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |
| 12 | You control the gun sights movement with your mouse and the idea is to aim at the moving targets using your mouse button to shoot . |
| 13 | It was agreed to harmonize fiscal incentives for investors and to aim at the creation of a monetary union by 1995 . |