Example sentences of "aim [be] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should your prime aim be to provide a measure of self-sufficiency for your family , a different range of options opens to you . |
| 2 | The air is swallowed into the lungs , the ultimate aim being to send the breath even lower , past the lungs into the stomach . |
| 3 | The phrase commonly used as a criteria for judging developments is ‘ are they pro-people ’ , the aim being to build a health system in which people really matter . |
| 4 | We have a very detailed management plan on the reserve with our main aim being to maintain the habitat as it is and to ensure that any disturbance to the bird community is minimal . |
| 5 | The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is the most far reaching of all the statutes having the widest impact on working conditions , its aim being to secure the health , safety and welfare of all at work wherever they may be employed . |
| 6 | Although he said there was ‘ no mechanistic link between earnings and dividend ’ , the aim being to strike a balance between pleasing shareholders and retaining enough cash to fund operations , he claimed the board decided to recommend an 8.3% increase in final dividend payment to reflect ‘ BT 's underlying performance and financial strength ’ . |
| 7 | Our breathing work is based on selected Yoga positions , chosen for their particular relevance to the Medau system , and although this relationship is important , the positions are taught differently , the aim being to influence the breath in an indirect way , undisturbed by directions to breathe in or out at certain moments . |
| 8 | The aim is to publish a radical and influential report within the next twelve months . |
| 9 | The aim is to publish a book from these findings . |
| 10 | The aim is to streamline the business , achieve higher productivity and lay the foundations for better operational results . |
| 11 | But a series of gun and bomb attacks on buses since then in Upper Egypt and Cairo has caused no casualties and the Gama'a says its aim is to undermine the government by damaging the tourist industry , not to hurt tourists . |
| 12 | In modern times , we have effectively removed the third possibility above by redefining the goal of science : our aim is to formulate a set of laws that enables us to predict events only up to the limit set by the uncertainty principle . |
| 13 | The aim is to bridge the gap between the work of specialists whose significance to a general understanding may seem obscure , and generalised accounts which may seem remote from the data . |
| 14 | The overall aim is to improve the education and training environment so that a teacher/student ratio of 1:12 will be realised , and that ‘ the facilities available for education and training should be no less than the best provided in higher education establishment ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Our aim is to improve the leadership we provide by simplifying our structure , revitalising our performance and skills and generally reducing costs , to the benefit of the laboratory as a whole . ’ |
| 16 | The aim is to improve the choice of good quality services available to you and your GP . |
| 17 | Our aim is to improve the quality of life , not impair it . |
| 18 | The aim is to improve the drainage system . |
| 19 | The aim is to enable the patient to understand the effects of his behaviour on other people and at the same time to help others understand their role in the behaviour . |
| 20 | The aim is to arrange the rig in such a way that the wind can blow under it and release it from the water . |
| 21 | The aim is to relieve the stress of carers and other members of the family , preventing elderly or handicapped people becoming institutionalised and avoiding an increased burden on hospitals . |
| 22 | The chapter 's main aim is to examine the nature of that crossroads and how best to analyse it . |
| 23 | ( Here , as we have previously noted , we should beware of confusing the methods of philosophy , and also those of the ‘ humanities ’ generally , with those of the natural sciences where the aim is to explain the behaviour of apparently diverse phenomena in terms of general laws ; the more general , the more fruitful . ) |
| 24 | In the evening the aim is to relax the body . |
| 25 | Our long-term aim is to shift the burden of taxation away from the things the country needs more of — income , savings and value added — and on to the things we want less of , such as pollution and resource depletion . |
| 26 | The protest was organised by the newly-formed Bootle Miners Support Group and spokesman Eddie McEvilly explained : ‘ Our aim is to highlight the impact that cheap coal is having on polluting the community and destroying North West mining jobs . ’ |
| 27 | The aim is to analyse a problem which economic growth alone has failed to cure — and to consider possible new forms of public action . |
| 28 | Large numbers of calculations are to be done , so that the design aim is to choose a word size which gives suitable precision , and to do all arithmetic in the most efficient way , using fixed or floating.point binary format . |
| 29 | ‘ Then there starts a game whose aim is to reverse the bank 's assessment . ’ |
| 30 | Our aim is to minimise the inconvenience of delays so far as possible . |