Example sentences of "aim is [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC says its aim is to implement ECMA with its own products as well as merging US and European standards . |
| 2 | The central aim is to shed light on the way problems are conceptualised and how political possibilities inherent in the changing situation are perceived and promoted . |
| 3 | The word ‘ industry ’ is used in its broadest sense , and the aim is to improve qualification throughout society . |
| 4 | But it has been countered that the main aim is to improve quality of provision , to get better value for the money spent — and that the key to this is better management of schools . |
| 5 | The social worker whose aim is to effect change in response to some cry for help , will try to ensure that the change occurs in such a way that it is manageable for the system as a whole . |
| 6 | According to Envoy Systems ' Peter Krall , the group 's aim is to create awareness of computer-integrated telephony rather than to make standards . |
| 7 | The dilemma which arose from the modern sculptor , was summed up by Marion Spielmann in British Sculptors and Sculptors of Today ( 1901 ) ‘ The present aim is to give life without actual realism — a suggestion of reality shrouded in poetry and grace … our artists understand that if the figures are to be more like the human form the statues must be unconscious of their absence of drapery as though they were symbols — which indeed they are ’ . |
| 8 | Their aim is to give aid to groups of people who are held to be disadvantaged for any reason — because of ethnic origin , sex , sexual preference , age , unemployment or any kind of disability . |
| 9 | Where genuine ambiguities of scope arise ( is a skateboarder a pedestrian or a driver ? ) then the aim is to reintroduce clarity by judicial precedent . |
| 10 | The aim is to gather material on everyday activities ( at home , in churches and graveyards ) but also on the more exceptional activities which take women out of their normal routines and maybe away from their communities ( ie pilgrimages and forms of the religious life ) . |
| 11 | The aim is to document evidence on the way journalists make their daily decisions on what is news , on the events to which to give prominence , and on the treatment and presentation of those events . |
| 12 | Our aim is to foster interest in cricket on the continent of Europe — so why not come along and be a part of its growth and development . |
| 13 | The Chancellor 's aim is to keep inflation within the range 1%-4% . |
| 14 | Its primary aim is to measure performance against standards with a view to enabling corrective action to be taken to keep plans on course . |
| 15 | The aim is to instil confidence in the economy at the same time as lifting the Conservative Party morale — and public focus — on the Government 's Maastricht troubles . |
| 16 | So if the overriding aim is to minimize loss of earnings , it is economically rational for working women to delay or avoid marriage when it is no longer necessary for their financial security ( Ermisch 1981 ) . |
| 17 | The aim is to establish cooperation on a pan-European basis for the exchange of legal information between European countries . |
| 18 | The long term aim is to provide evidence on which can be based policies for effective school provision . |
| 19 | ‘ Our aim is to provide excellence in the design , project management and assembly of smaller railway rolling stock contracts , ’ says Peter Johnson , one of the firm 's directors . |
| 20 | ‘ Our aim is to provide excellence in the design , project management and assembly of smaller railway rolling stock contracts , ’ says Peter Johnson , one of the firm 's directors . |
| 21 | The aim is to provide security of capital with an attractive and rising level of income . |
| 22 | The Government 's aim is to increase flexibility of delivery and make college education more cost effective . |
| 23 | The final list of goals for food change is obviously rather different from all the others because the aim is to increase consumption of something rather than decrease it . |
| 24 | In Wallingford , many of the companies still in business are concerned enough about their survival , that they 've formed a business group who 's aim is to increase co-operation in the town and provide some mutual support . |
| 25 | He went on : ‘ Our overriding aim is to bring terrorism to an end so that the people of Northern Ireland may live in peace and stability and be able to take decisions about their own future in accordance with the principle of democratic consent and without fear or coercion . ’ |
| 26 | The aim is to bring calm to the streets and reduce the death toll on the roads which costs millions of pounds every year . |
| 27 | The aim is to raise money for former Resistance workers who helped more than two thousand Allied servicemen evade capture.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 28 | The aim is to raise money for any former resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times and to say thank you for the help they gave to our servicemen : |
| 29 | The aim is to raise money for former Resistance workers who helped more than two thousand Allied servicemen evade capture.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 30 | The aim is to raise money for any former resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times and to say thank you for the help they gave to our servicemen : |