Example sentences of "aim at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began to aim at the other man , who was reloading his Luger , but was stopped by the Doctor 's hand on his shoulder . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This helps to structure the content of its programmes as well as its public image , and until the mid-1980s , Radio I was aiming at the 16–25 age group . |
| 4 | Nobody could expect you to think up anything as stupid as a dumb movie actress aiming at the front page . ’ |
| 5 | It should need no stressing that even today , when more and more actors ( those in work ) are aiming at the regular working-day/mortgage belt , affairs , amours and just plain sex inside a company is not unknown . |
| 6 | ‘ We are aiming at the Northern area because we feel it is desperately under-served , ’ he says , adding that discussions are also under way with Yorkshire Arts about touring in that area . |
| 7 | At The Hague , still aiming at the illustrated magazine market , he concentrated on figures in action , and in the process would be distracted by other subjects : by shabby house fronts , factories , drying sheds , parks , churches , refuse dumps , freight yards . |
| 8 | The company says that it will not initially be aiming at the unfamiliar Unix community , instead it has set its sights on its existing customers , and IBM mainframe sites , which are increasingly feeling the push towards Unix . |
| 9 | The company says that it will not initially be aiming at the unfamiliar Unix community , instead it has set its sights on its existing customers , and IBM mainframe sites , which are increasingly feeling the push towards Unix . |
| 10 | And there are numerous ‘ science centres ’ the world over , generally having no collections of relics or precious objects , but dealing instead with ‘ hands-on ’ experience and aiming at the lively presentation of ideas in preference to artifacts . |
| 11 | The most common drill — and this is even practised by the better players who may be struggling with their groundstrokes — is to put targets within 60–90cm ( 2–3ft ) of the baseline and inside tramline and think in terms of rallying while aiming at the targeted areas . |
| 12 | Pulling his rifle to his shoulder he squinted along the barrel , aiming at the broadest part of the deer 's neck . |
| 13 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 14 | Honda is also producing its own version with a different body design and they 're both aiming at the same end of the market . |
| 15 | If Eliot seeks to draw on the power of an ancient ritual , he also aims at the horrifying frisson obtained by re-enacting the ritual with the opposite of its traditional meaning . |
| 16 | It is also reflected in Tillich 's rejection of the superficial approach to religion which sees value in every religious tradition apart from one 's own , and in his rejection of the kind of approach that aims at the complete synthesis of all particular religions into one all-embracing whole . |
| 17 | The Working Party on Internal Migration in Britain , which was set up by the Institute of British Geographers in l988 , aims at the better understanding of the patterns , causes and implications of migration in Britain . |
| 18 | The empirical evaluation of teaching/learning activities does not aim at the exact specification of causes but at increased awareness of different factors which bear upon the learning process in particular classrooms . |
| 19 | Who can actually fight the war , and I 'm just wondering , politically is it going to be a good idea to knowingly , not necessarily aim at the general population , but in the process of taking out the targets , extend it to the general population , well what do you think of that ? |
| 20 | For U K P L C to succeed in the years ahead , we simply have to agree objectives , navigate by the same map , and aim at the same goals . |
| 21 | As General Manager Edward Clarkin explained : ‘ We offer meals children will eat and enjoy , yet we aim at the healthiest types of food . |
| 22 | Rory aimed at the small hole , pulled the trigger . |
| 23 | In desperation she slammed the stop-cock open and precious oxygen knifed outwards in an icy cloud that she aimed at the farthest point . |
| 24 | scientific publications in the form of journals or books ( e.g. Edinburgh Journal of Botany , British Fungus Flora ) aimed at the scientific community and the enthusiastic amateur |
| 25 | Simultaneously , it aimed at the permanent reduction of inflation rates in the EC as the means of promoting price predictability . |
| 26 | One aimed at the teenage market . |
| 27 | Thirdly , the Labour party 's support for the social action programme of the social charter and for a minimum wage represents a political double-barrelled shotgun aimed at the working population , particularly those in lower-paid jobs . |
| 28 | The resulting ModelGen system costs between £13,300 and £21,300 and offers texture tools and virtual reality options and is aimed at the virtual reality , architectural , computer-aided design walkthrough , computer-aided design visualisation and entertainment markets . |
| 29 | The BLX-80 is their latest : an ‘ entry level ’ 80 watt 1x10 combo aimed at the small pub or club gig and rehearsal situation . |
| 30 | Repertoire is a complete invoicing and stock control program aimed at the small business and will run on virtually any PC compatible machine with any DOS from 3.2 upwards . |