Example sentences of "[pron] aim at " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a launch of a new diagnostic technique the Chief Executive of a hi-tech company in the medical field seeks your advice on two public relations programmes : I Aimed at his own company 's staff : 230 of them at two factories 65 miles apart and at an R and D facility with 38 senior staff . |
| 2 | And he was looking forward again : " I do n't feel I 've ever got to the point I aim at and I do n't think I ever will , but I would like to feel that I was getting a little nearer to it each time . " |
| 3 | There is also a particular difficulty with care for the unemployed ; not only is the research team unable to use return to work as an end point , but the patient also does not have it as an objective and he has therefore nothing to aim at . |
| 4 | We wo n't have that Number One target on our backs for everyone to aim at . |
| 5 | Any policy which aims at exorcising envy and the concomitant sense of guilt — the reason why so many intellectually eminent individuals are attracted to levelling doctrines , because they aspire to purge the sense of guilt to which eminence itself is prone — by measures of social or economic equalisation is foredoomed to failure , because it rests on the false presumption that envy and envy-guilt exist only because they are ‘ justified ’ , because the materials exist on which they feed . |
| 6 | The second new title listing which aims at comprehensiveness is the trade listing . |
| 7 | Contrast with the even more famous 5-volume New Cambridge bibliography of English literature , also by Cambridge University Press , which aims at ‘ completeness in its own terms ’ — i.e. excluding certain categories of works ( such as unpublished dissertations ) — but otherwise attempting comprehensiveness . |
| 8 | Any activity which aims at preventing fire is a component of the AL of maintaining a safe environment . |
| 9 | We have then in homoeopathy a system of therapeutics which aims at helping the body 's innate self-healing abilities by the use of remedies derived in the main from the mineral , vegetable and animal realms . |
| 10 | So , like so many in Irish rugby , he welcomes the arrival of the Irish Exiles project which aims at enrolling the large number of those with Irish qualifications who live in England , Scotland and Wales , and up to year or so ago were almost totally ignored in Ireland . |
| 11 | The vices of Lovelace are , for example , those of the traditionally aristocratic variety , where Clarissa 's family , which aims at elevation , has developed the rabidly acquisitive instincts peculiar to their aspiring breed . |
| 12 | The sphere of institutions undertake to maintain the process which aims at reproducing the idea of a common consciousness among the people . |
| 13 | The prospects may therefore be good for a long-term strategy which aims at both restricting the scale of most operating units and granting them a reasonable degree of operational autonomy in order to make participative democracy a feasible proposition , while developing further the economies of administration , co-ordination , etc. which are at present realised by large-scale enterprises . |
| 14 | But in music and poetry which aims at a higher aesthetic we have to avoid the trite effect which can result when words and music are in the same metre and move in identical rhythms . |
| 15 | BP Norway is participating in an ambitious national research initiative which aims at increasing Norwegian oil and gas reserves in producing and approved North Sea fields by 2500 billion barrels by the year 2000 . |
| 16 | The first we call the " factual survey " , which aims at collecting facts about the conditions of populations . |
| 17 | This may be contrasted with the second type , the " attitude survey " , which aims at producing an accurate picture of people 's attitudes as a guide to their likely behaviour . |
| 18 | To take a specific example , the statement that a direct consequence of a publicly announced and widely believed monetary policy which aims at holding the unemployment rate at U 1 will be a higher expected rate of inflation does not imply the more extreme view that monetary policy can only reduce unemployment below U * ; to the extent that the authorities increase the money supply at a rate in excess of what was generally anticipated . |
| 19 | Similarly , the National Council of Educational Research and Training pilot project at Bhumiadhat ( India ) which aimed at the expansion of non formal education found that any success noted was felt primarily to lie in such atypical factors as the extensive community development programmes which accompanied the project and , as in the Lofoten study , in the exceptional talents of some of the staff . |
| 20 | He stuck to these attitudes through the 1820s and after , and could see no reason to take up the new liberal and radical ideas , which aimed at further break-up of the existing order of things . |
| 21 | A pedagogy which aimed at teaching the functional potential of grammar along the lines I have described , would have to get learners to engage in problem-solving tasks which required a gradual elaboration of grammar to service an increasing precision in the identification of relevant features of context . |
| 22 | The Geneva-based CERN Laboratories and Scheidt & Bachmann GmbH were also involved in the project , which aimed at producing a parallel , real-time Unix environment for the Inmos chip . |
| 23 | For example , a recent German study , which aimed at controlling blood phenylalanine concentrations between 60 and 300 µmol/l , produced IQ results no better than those in British subjects , in whom the aim was more relaxed control ( 180–600 µmol/l ) , though the blood phenylalanine value was on average 100 µmol/l lower in the German subjects . |
| 24 | From the outset a policy was adopted which aimed at eliminating unnecessary jargon and the mystique normally associated with computers . |
| 25 | They can also be seen in the popularity in France of the idea of attacks on British commerce as a means of forcing the traditional enemy to her knees , the belief that a guerre de course of this kind , avoiding large-scale engagements and making extensive use of privateers , would be more effective than a strategy which aimed at securing effective control of the seas . |
| 26 | Government and TRNC forces on May 17 , 1989 , abandoned 24 military positions along the Green Line dividing Nicosia , as part of a pullback agreement brokered by the UN Peace-Keeping Force in Cyprus ( UNFICYP ) , which aimed at reducing tension along the buffer zone . |
| 27 | Police claimed that the 48 , many of whom were students , had formed an organization called the Revolutionary Working Class Fighters ' Federation which aimed at the establishment of a socialist state . |
| 28 | The protracted budgetary negotiations involving the administration and a group of Republican and Democrat legislators on Sept. 30 produced a draft agreement for fiscal 1991 which aimed at reducing the budget deficit by $500,000 million over a five-year period . |
| 29 | The motion accused the newspaper of publishing " biased articles which aimed at discrediting and ridiculing chairman Walesa " . |
| 30 | Opposition parties of both the left and the right accused the government of surrendering to the dictates of the World Bank and the IMF , but on March 9 the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) approved by a simple voice vote the government 's sweeping economic reforms , as detailed in the budget , which aimed at opening up the country 's protected economy . |