Example sentences of "be aimed at [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairly obviously , your recommendations should be aimed at correcting the weaknesses you have identified . |
| 2 | These would be aimed at ensuring the blockade of all land , air and sea points of entry [ see pp. 39041 ; 39084 ] . |
| 3 | The proposal , put forward by the Inter-American Development Bank ( IADB ) , appears to be aimed at defusing the strong US opposition on environmental grounds to the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) between Canada , Mexico and the United States . |
| 4 | The first part of this work will accordingly be aimed at elucidating the totality of Nizan 's experience as a communist writer/intellectual in the political and historical context of interwar French society . |
| 5 | Russian colonial policies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were aimed at maximizing the income of the state by the subjection of aboriginal peoples to fur tribute . |
| 6 | Elaborate pricing mechanisms — the K-factors and all the rest — were set up by the government before the sell-off ; they were aimed at helping the industry , which had long been a victim of under-investment , to pay for a capital-spending programme of at least £18 billion over the next decade . |
| 7 | It does seem likely , however , that after Valens jurists would not have reverted to a negative interpretation , for various interpretative principles were settled in the course of the development of the Roman law of succession , and many of them were aimed at determining the meaning of dispositions in which the testator had left an important point undetermined . |
| 8 | He said that the government 's actions were aimed at bringing the two states closer and promoting integration . |
| 9 | Many of the proposals for re-establishing full employment in the aftermath of the 1979–81 recession were aimed at increasing the level of demand in the economy . |
| 10 | New fisheries legislation which changed the basis for regulation of Greenland 's shrimp fisheries and attached quasi-property rights to licences to fish were introduced in 1990/91 , and were aimed at tackling the industry 's problems . |
| 11 | Primary or public health standards were aimed at protecting the most susceptible part of the population from adverse effects , with an adequate margin of safety being included , while the more stringent secondary standards were aimed at protecting public welfare , such as damage to vegetation , wildlife , materials , and so on . |
| 12 | The Praesidium , headed by President Gorbachev , said many of these laws were aimed at strengthening the ‘ economic and political independence and ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens ’ . |
| 13 | The Praesidium , headed by President Gorbachev , said many of these laws were aimed at strengthening the ‘ economic and political independence and ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens ’ . |
| 14 | Specific recommendations were aimed at strengthening the police , in manpower , efficiency and pay , and speeding up the process of amalgamating local forces . |
| 15 | Most people find life a mixture of nice and nasty experiences and behaviour is aimed at maximizing the nice experiences and minimizing the nasty ones . |
| 16 | The value of charity is twofold : it is aimed at helping the recipient , but it is also beneficial to the giver . |
| 17 | User development loop : moving out to wider trials and getting the most relevant feedback leading to more revision to ensure that the teaching unit can help to educate the unfamiliar user ( this revision of the unit is aimed at helping the users to develop the ability to realize the unit 's intentions ) . |
| 18 | Ideally , scanning is aimed at alerting the organisation to potentially significant external impingements before they have fully formed or crystallised . |
| 19 | Indeed some felt given the success of the MacBride lobby in the U.S. , that the Act is aimed at getting the issue off the agenda . |
| 20 | It is aimed at getting the most out of available time as is possible without distress to the person working — at least that seems to be the rough definition . |
| 21 | This entire magazine is aimed at unlocking the mind-set that says : overpopulation is the Third World 's worst problem , that therefore the poor have only themselves to blame for their poverty , and that therefore the solution should always begin with a family planning programme . |
| 22 | The traffic management strategy , including completion of the inner ring road , is aimed at holding the total entering the centre down to 150,000 — despite forecasts of 210,000 by the year 2000 . |
| 23 | The international treaty is aimed at saving the Earth 's ozone layer and commits member countries to phasing out production of the gases that destroy the layer . |
| 24 | This is aimed at reversing the triggering event : the patient should be kept warm , rehydrated with intravenous fluids and any infection reacted with broad-spectrum antibiotics . |
| 25 | The Doctor Data database is aimed at defining the entire compass of E-type additives , allowing the whole range to be investigated , at least up to the date of author Peter J Menter 's documentation , although the main menu of the program includes an option to update the database in various ways . |
| 26 | This feminist critique is aimed at exposing the hidden political agenda of social science , its underlying motivation for the endless ferreting out of differences . |
| 27 | Much of the Redcar bid is aimed at rejuvenating the town centre by building a shopping mall , a major office development , a leisure complex and a business park on the outskirts near Kirkleatham . |
| 28 | How can History be a unity if it is also conflictual , if each action is aimed at destroying the other and results in a double negation in which the original aims of each action have been destroyed by the other ? |
| 29 | For the struggling independent papers , adding papers is aimed at securing the top of the market . |
| 30 | This research is aimed at investigating the educational potential for the mathematics classroom of a small number of powerful computer applications . |