Example sentences of "is aim at [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people find life a mixture of nice and nasty experiences and behaviour is aimed at maximizing the nice experiences and minimizing the nasty ones . |
| 2 | The value of charity is twofold : it is aimed at helping the recipient , but it is also beneficial to the giver . |
| 3 | User development loop : moving out to wider trials and getting the most relevant feedback leading to more revision to ensure that the teaching unit can help to educate the unfamiliar user ( this revision of the unit is aimed at helping the users to develop the ability to realize the unit 's intentions ) . |
| 4 | Ideally , scanning is aimed at alerting the organisation to potentially significant external impingements before they have fully formed or crystallised . |
| 5 | Indeed some felt given the success of the MacBride lobby in the U.S. , that the Act is aimed at getting the issue off the agenda . |
| 6 | It is aimed at getting the most out of available time as is possible without distress to the person working — at least that seems to be the rough definition . |
| 7 | This entire magazine is aimed at unlocking the mind-set that says : overpopulation is the Third World 's worst problem , that therefore the poor have only themselves to blame for their poverty , and that therefore the solution should always begin with a family planning programme . |
| 8 | The traffic management strategy , including completion of the inner ring road , is aimed at holding the total entering the centre down to 150,000 — despite forecasts of 210,000 by the year 2000 . |
| 9 | The international treaty is aimed at saving the Earth 's ozone layer and commits member countries to phasing out production of the gases that destroy the layer . |
| 10 | This is aimed at reversing the triggering event : the patient should be kept warm , rehydrated with intravenous fluids and any infection reacted with broad-spectrum antibiotics . |
| 11 | The Doctor Data database is aimed at defining the entire compass of E-type additives , allowing the whole range to be investigated , at least up to the date of author Peter J Menter 's documentation , although the main menu of the program includes an option to update the database in various ways . |
| 12 | This feminist critique is aimed at exposing the hidden political agenda of social science , its underlying motivation for the endless ferreting out of differences . |
| 13 | Much of the Redcar bid is aimed at rejuvenating the town centre by building a shopping mall , a major office development , a leisure complex and a business park on the outskirts near Kirkleatham . |
| 14 | How can History be a unity if it is also conflictual , if each action is aimed at destroying the other and results in a double negation in which the original aims of each action have been destroyed by the other ? |
| 15 | For the struggling independent papers , adding papers is aimed at securing the top of the market . |
| 16 | This research is aimed at investigating the educational potential for the mathematics classroom of a small number of powerful computer applications . |
| 17 | The Ford stake is aimed at frustrating the proposed deal between Jaguar and General Motors . |
| 18 | Above all , I think the methodology is aimed at making the pupil an active element in the classroom . |
| 19 | Their policy is aimed at making the Southern part of the country a colony without rights and a military strategic springboard for the United States . |
| 20 | The bid is aimed at making the town centre the hub of business and community activities and includes schemes for a theatre , leisure pool and arts complex . |
| 21 | The literature is aimed at reinforcing the company 's health message and encouraging employees who have not taken advantage of the project to come forward . |
| 22 | This is aimed at protecting the aboriginal sites on the Franklin . |
| 23 | The requirement for disclosure of information in the proposed Directive is aimed at protecting the interests of shareholders of the target company . |
| 24 | The charter highlights 16 areas of concern including language difficulties and is aimed at raising the awareness of racism within the system which can result in individuals losing their benefits . |
| 25 | The accord , signed 10 days ago , is aimed at preventing the sort of conflicts that led to the break-up of the Soviet Union from being repeated within Russia . |
| 26 | The Disclosure Directive lays down minimum disclosure requirements throughout the EC and is aimed at improving the transparency of the securities markets . |
| 27 | The paper serves to illustrate some of the fundamental problems that may be encountered by organisations which aim to introduce new technology to developing countries , in spite of the fact that the technology in question is aimed at improving the quality of life of the inhabitants . |
| 28 | The patients charter is aimed at improving the quality of the delivery of health care in Scotland and at making patients aware of their rights , thereby helping to improve even more the delivery of the health service . |
| 29 | Labour councillor Pat Buttle welcomed a new strategy for the council which is aimed at tackling the problem of sexual harassment at work . |
| 30 | Coincidently , the report was published not long after the Government 's announcement of its intention to introduce commonhold legislation ( see Information Circular , August 1991 ) , which is aimed at strengthening the rights of existing leaseholders . |