Example sentences of "be aimed [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst the pert , Californian sexuality of Baywatch bimbos seems to be aimed at the heart of adolescent lust , Schiffer possesses a vital ambiguity within her features and her poise which recreates her as a story waiting to be told , as opposed to a fantasy waiting to be fulfilled . |
| 2 | The images of vision are of the same order as creative ideas , but the mind must be aimed at the horizon , and the thoughts must be concentrated in the emotion of creativity . |
| 3 | EC funding was obtained for a new project , to start in 1991 , which will be aimed at the development of metallogenic/economic models and sets of exploration criteria suitable for gold exploration in western Europe from the analysis of multiple datasets ( including mineral occurrence , geological , geochemical , geophysical and remotely sensed datasets ) . |
| 4 | If , as the psychodynamic school believes , obesity is fundamentally a psychological problem , it follows that treatment should ideally be aimed at the mind rather than at the body , and that treatment aimed at the body will leave the underlying psychological problem unaltered or even aggravated , similar objections were and still are levelled against behavioural treatments which allegedly deal only with ‘ symptoms ’ , leaving the underlying problem to spring up anew . |
| 5 | Briefing courses may be aimed at the employee only or organisations may encourage the employee 's spouse to attend the briefing sessions . |
| 6 | However it is not just the press that 's causing Parker difficulties — the company 's personal computer , mid-range and networking arms are all happy to explain how they are perfectly capable of running enterprise-wide applications , and the company 's most swingeing cuts are being aimed at the Enterprise Systems division . |
| 7 | They were aimed at the sky , poised ready to bounce signals off satellites over the rim of the earth . |
| 8 | Western powers were wrong to believe that tsarist troops in Poland were aimed at the heart of Europe , for they were needed where they were . |
| 9 | There were men out there , workmen driving animals and carrying torches whose beams were aimed at the ground . |
| 10 | The second main emphasis of Callinicos ' critique is aimed at the philosophy most frequently regarded as underpinning claims for the distinction of a postmodern culture , viz. poststructuralism . |
| 11 | After all , the UN is a public body and though the message is aimed at the individual , public media encourage a connection with global identity . |
| 12 | This system is aimed at the home entertainment market . |
| 13 | Above all it is aimed at the country 's railways , where disorganisation and disruption and not only in politically-inflamed Soviet Transcaucasia have caused dangerous shortfalls of coal and oil stocks at power stations , and of other raw materials at factories across the country . |
| 14 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 15 | The book , which is written in a humorous and easy to understand style , is aimed at the beginner , and covers all you need to know to use Excel 4 for Windows . |
| 16 | It is aimed at the trekker and European walker rather than the British winter walker and costs about £100 . |
| 17 | Most of the information on these one.way systems is aimed at the consumer or private viewer rather than firms or businesses . |
| 18 | Develped jointly with Intel , the Matsushita player is aimed at the consumer market and will be on sale in 1991 under both Matsushita and Intel badges . |
| 19 | What is apparent is that this manual is aimed at the non-specialist technician , possibly an embalmer , who has good knowledge of some medical procedures . |
| 20 | If a punch is aimed at the face , the defender steps out to intercept it before it gains momentum . |
| 21 | The foot is aimed at the face of the opponent and the kicking leg is bent at the knee in a snap motion down across the opponent 's face . |
| 22 | A new Unix expo is on the drawing board , this one , borrowing from the original Comdex , is aimed at the reseller community : Unix Resellers , organized by Expoconsul International in Princeton , New Jersey , is scheduled for May 4–6 1993 at the Dallas Convention Centre . |
| 23 | In the area of population genetics , theoretical and experimental work is aimed at the process of evolution , natural and artificial selection . |
| 24 | It does at the moment according to the reports , everything is aimed at the control and the command network and also and obviously at the military targets , so we 'll just have to wait and see |
| 25 | The ‘ 48-Lite ’ series of desktop machines comes with a colour screen and is aimed at the business market and it includes the new 78 MIPS , 27SPECint92 EWS4800/110LT which comes with NEC 's own 1,024 by 768 pixel colour thin film liquid crystal diode screen and is priced in the base configuration at $12,272 and the similarly-rated EWS4800/310 , which is the lowest priced Japanese version of System V.4.2 on a desktop RISC workstation , the diskless version being priced at $5,272 and the stand-alone configuration selling for $6,618 . |
| 26 | The ‘ 48-Lite ’ series of desktop machines comes with a colour screen and is aimed at the business market and it includes the new 78 MIPS , 27SPECint92 EWS4800/110LT which comes with NEC 's own 1,024 by 768 pixel colour thin film liquid crystal diode screen and is priced in the base configuration at $12,272 and the similarly-rated EWS4800/310 , which is the lowest priced Japanese version of System V.4.2 on a desktop RISC workstation , the diskless version being priced at $5,272 and the stand-alone configuration selling for $6,618 . |
| 27 | Lest we are in any doubt about where responsibility for pedestrian casualties lies , propaganda on pedestrian accidents is aimed at the pedestrian , rarely at the motorist : as one ‘ public information announcement ’ has it , ‘ One false move and you 're dead . ’ |
| 28 | Sadly , there turns out to be a sound explanation for this instruction it 's aimed at the club audience , who watch the show as it happens on banks of TV monitors . |
| 29 | The few that are employed are aimed below the waist . |
| 30 | Both the cycle of gifts and of offence and revenge are aimed at the preservation or accumulation of symbolic capital . |