Example sentences of "aim [is] [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's aim is to decide all cases within a matter of months so that all those affected do not have to wait an inordinate length of time to ascertain their legal status in the U K. It 's obvious to everyone not too blind to see that such changes are vital to the mounting pressures on the existing system |
| 2 | The aim is to put all employees on standard five-day-week contracts , compared with the mixture of four-day weeks , nine-day fortnights and five-day weeks which staff currently work . |
| 3 | The aim is to have all hosts implement CCL , and by 1981 some 12 hosts had done so . |
| 4 | The second aim is to discuss these patterns of language impairment in relation to the models of normal language processing we have described in previous chapters . |
| 5 | Zoo director Jo Gipps said : ‘ London Zoo will become an increasingly interesting and enjoyable place to visit and our aim is to attract more visitors by telling them that we are an exciting and relevant zoo of the future . |
| 6 | I can see that his aim is to make these scenes so powerful that they will go beyond any fictional treatment of the death camps that has ever been tried before : the train roils through the night , the outcome , although certain , appallingly delayed by the shots of the iron wheels and the crude pistons ; the final scene of the five chimneys pouring their shameful smoke over the polish countryside , intercut — this is my contribution — with the smoke rising from the savannah . |
| 7 | The aim is to produce more economists who can handle practical affairs seriously ; more generalists--aware in a rough way of what non economists think--by making it easier to concentrate on particular problems , so that their views may more easily be sought and comprehended ; and more theorists who plan their work in an economic manner . |
| 8 | The vast majority of teachers are working extremely hard to achieve good results under the national curriculum and our aim is to get all schools up to the standards of the best . |