Example sentences of "[verb] aim at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It therefore has to aim at a carefully judged angle to the apparent direction if it is going to score a hit . |
| 2 | What prompts him to this unexpected adjective is that ( as Bunting stressed ) the poems these men admired were not ‘ simplified to aim at the poor ’ , but ‘ written for a hard intellectual audience ’ . |
| 3 | Once an advertiser knows the ACORN types he wants to aim at , he has a number of options . |
| 4 | Forget the flourish of the big white napkin , forget two thumbs on the cork 's corona , forget aiming at the bulbs in the recessed ceiling-lights . |
| 5 | From its beginnings more than a century ago , modern mathematics has aimed at a total abstraction in the interests of rigour and distillation of its logic . |
| 6 | Planning has aimed at justifying charges in other jurisdictions , particularly Germany and the US . |
| 7 | The summit also agreed to aim at completing an ambitious co-operation agreement with the new government in East Germany before the middle of next year . |
| 8 | Various proposals have been made aimed at creating a legal framework to enable Afghanistan to revert essentially to its pre-1978 international status . |
| 9 | Further proposals , statements and communications were submitted on Nov. 20-24 by Brazil , Peru , Indonesia , Malaysia and Japan , while on Dec. 18 a draft document was adopted aimed at fulfilling the mid-term review mandate and designed to permit negotiations to take place for the completion of all parts of the multilateral framework relating to services and to its entry into force by the end of the Uruguay Round . |
| 10 | The French approach to takeovers has tended to aim at strengthening their central manufacturing core and to ensure that the French company remains dominant and in control , whereas the British takeover is generally aimed at diversification . |
| 11 | Japan 's colony of Korea was occupied partly by Russian troops and partly by the US in 1945. prior discussion among the allies had agreed to aim at international trusteeship followed by independence , but superpower interests and conflict between Korean independence groups rendered agreement on unification impossible , and the two sides became increasingly polarized . |
| 12 | While the Government would like to aim at an insurance pool of around £500m a year , the industry thinks this would be optimistic . |
| 13 | But his interest grew as he worked , and he began to aim at a comprehensive expository commentary on Epicurus . |
| 14 | He began to aim at the other man , who was reloading his Luger , but was stopped by the Doctor 's hand on his shoulder . |
| 15 | their demand for control can not be restricted to one of self-government within the enterprise , but it will have to aim at the development of a complex institutional system that will be able to strike a balance between the need for worker autonomy within the enterprise on the one hand , and the need for economic co-ordination at higher economic levels on the other . |
| 16 | Negotiations are continuing aimed at strengthening a two-man board . |
| 17 | Ingres Corp will support 4Gb binary large objects ( BLOBS ) as an extension to the kernel of Version 6.5 of its relational database management system , due to go into beta test next year : the move seems aimed at forestalling customers thinking of moving to object databases , or to other RDBMS that already support BLOBs , such as Informix , Interbase and Oracle Version 7 — BLOBS however , are seen as little more than a token gesture towards true object databases . |
| 18 | In one area Tanucci did aim at far-reaching change . |
| 19 | That 's what they 're trying to aim at . |
| 20 | Erm so in in broad terms the master plan is is unchanged in concept but we think improved in detail the is the other thing at each end erm represents on the left hand side er , what is currently Honey Hill I believe the name may be changed in due course erm and those behind me here are the houses on the Fern Hill side and then , although some of you will have difficulty seeing it at the moment , at the bottom there are detailed drawings showing the internal arrangement of the houses and flats and , and detailed drawings of the elevations with dimensions , so one can have a have a bit of a feel for the the sort of space standards that we 've aimed at , but there are in fact , furniture plans shown on the drawings . |
| 21 | However it was , the one he had aimed at did not get out of the way in time and a last-minute attempt to slink off in the wind failed . |
| 22 | In addition to the exceptional nature and size of his victory , it was considered a potential watershed in Haiti 's history , a view given further credence by the failure of a coup attempt in January 1991 which had aimed at preventing Aristide 's inauguration [ see p. 37955 ] . |
| 23 | Backed by conservationist David Bellamy , a series of events has been planned aimed at raising awareness of the links between transport and the environment . |
| 24 | This discovery gave fresh impetus to research aimed at developing new drugs which , like aspirin , would relieve pain and control inflammation , and also it provided a new basis for testing candidate compounds . |
| 25 | Social circumstances in which one dominant ethnic group or ‘ race ’ confronts others may engender a climate favourable to research aimed at exploring possible relationships between genetic and cultural phenomena . |
| 26 | Since its establishment in 1945 the College has had a strong commitment to research aimed at improving management and the development of managers . |
| 27 | Since its establishment in 1945 the College has had a strong commitment to research aimed at improving management and the development of managers . |
| 28 | In practice , one problem has persisted : can a national television service aimed at minorities — the ‘ tastes and interests not generally catered for ’ — exist in the commercial sector ? |
| 29 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |
| 30 | ‘ However , with the most recent figures showing less than 40pc of even full-term infants being breast-fed at six weeks , human milk is the standard that milk-manufacturers need to aim at . ’ |