Example sentences of "aim was [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim was to examine the impact of environmental trends on business competitiveness and on environmental management . |
| 2 | Partly as a result of the methodology chosen , a subsidiary aim was to examine the links between expenditure on durable as opposed to non-durable goods . |
| 3 | His gentle , conservative aim was to support the singers and make the story clear . |
| 4 | Their limited aim was to support the efforts of the law against Communism and to take on the job themselves where those efforts were inadequate . |
| 5 | The aim was to celebrate the arrival of a new year in the heart of capital and draw further attention to their movement . |
| 6 | The aim was to use the wealth from one natural resource , to fund a system that would return Mexico to self-sufficiency in basic foods . |
| 7 | Their aim was to drive the majority out of their homeland . |
| 8 | The immediate aim was to open the roads to and from the temple to untouchables , but it proved to be a symbol of the movement to eliminate discrimination against untouchables in all spheres of life and a pointer to the need to abolish the caste system . |
| 9 | The aim was to reverse the decision in Moynes v Coopper , above . |
| 10 | My object was to get a straight edge easily , but there was a definite risk of lifting small particles of colour as it was take off and my aim was to minimise the need for retouching . |
| 11 | At Nicholas 's behest , P. D. Kiselev designed a series of measures in the 1840s whose aim was to quicken the rate at which Jews abandoned the traditions of their fathers . |
| 12 | Eubank 's 1993 aim was to tackle the cream of the 12-stone division , but achieving that has proved initially impossible for his promoter , Barry Hearn . |
| 13 | South Korea required support and the combination of the United States and Japan was important : the Americans were committed to Japan to an extent not applicable to South Korea and the South Korean aim was to draw the Americans in further . |
| 14 | His aim was to eliminate the importation of distilled spirits , for which his main rationale was the damage they did to health . |
| 15 | In describing the Dinnington project , Bayley and Tennant say that ‘ the main aim was to interweave the help and resources of the formal health and welfare services with the informal support and help and services given by family , friends and neighbours , together with the contribution of the voluntary sector ’ . |
| 16 | Its aim was to preserve the unity of France , to arrange matters in such a way that , in due course ( and , in view of the king 's health , not before too long ) a new dynasty might assume the crown of France . |
| 17 | Lenin was not a nationalist , and his central political aim was to preserve the Republic as a springboard for world revolution . |
| 18 | The aim was to explore the differences between the two sides following the BS announcement that , from March 31 , it will abandon rail transport from a quarry at Redmire to its works at Redcar in favour of road haulage . |
| 19 | The subject returned to the public eye , however , with the formation by two Cambridge graduates of the Homosexual Law Reform Society , a pressure group whose aim was to see the Wolfenden proposals enacted . |
| 20 | Wh what , well , I , I would n't say just looking similar , I would say additionally looking , but , but in the , in the early days the erm , and I 'll be saying something about this in the , in the lectures , bu but just briefly , that you could you could say there were phases in psychoanalysis , the early days , before both of us were born you were here , the , the aim when the method was , the aim was to release the unconscious , bring it to the surface , and that was regarded as more or less enough . |
| 21 | Teall 's aim was to publish the map and memoir of an area simultaneously and in some cases this was achieved . |
| 22 | The achieved aim was to destroy the dry-dock at St Nazaire , a success in no small part due to the bond between officers and men . |
| 23 | The baby 's attention is drawn to the potty before being placed on it : the aim was to teach the babies to reach out for the potty to indicate they wanted to use it . |
| 24 | The other aim was to promote the argument for religious toleration among Poles . |
| 25 | Tàpies ' main aim was to promote the study and understanding of modern art and culture ; to create a museum in the form of a working research centre with a pluralist approach and activities of international scope , not a passive repository or shrine to the artist ( like the Dalí Museum in Figueres ) . |
| 26 | For the centre of the metropolis the aim was to define the function of the various component parts and , while making them more efficient and dignified , to free them from damaging intrusion . |
| 27 | The aim was to give the writers the advance information they always sought and to gain interest from cinemas . |
| 28 | When it seemed to be getting out of hand , he insisted that its aim was to improve the system , not to change it . |
| 29 | John 's prime aim was to improve the horse 's jumping . |
| 30 | The aim was to facilitate the development of schools which would be attended by pupils of different faiths . |