Example sentences of "[be] aim at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeremi peered every which where for weapons which might be aiming at the now-inactive macro cannon on their carapace , or at their left shoulder where d'Arquebus was ensconced . |
| 2 | The company says that it will not initially be aiming at the unfamiliar Unix community , instead it has set its sights on its existing customers , and IBM mainframe sites , which are increasingly feeling the push towards Unix . |
| 3 | The company says that it will not initially be aiming at the unfamiliar Unix community , instead it has set its sights on its existing customers , and IBM mainframe sites , which are increasingly feeling the push towards Unix . |
| 4 | The minority , including Eleanor Rathbone , while not opposed to the redistribution of income in favour of the poor ( Rathbone , 1949 , p. 29 ) , argued that they should also be aiming at the redistribution of income in favour of those with family responsibilities within each income group . |
| 5 | Should we — women and men — be aiming at a common ethical conception , a shared moral perspective ? |
| 6 | One of the Confederation of British Industry 's ( CBI ) ‘ Lifetime Targets ’ for education and training is that , by 1996 , 50 per cent of the work-force should be aiming at NVQs or units towards them . |
| 7 | AQUARIUS You should really be aiming at new and exciting projects now ! |
| 8 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 9 | But these protests should not be aimed at the Vice Chancellors . |
| 10 | Mr Burr said the rump of the shares on offer would be aimed at the 11,000 members of the club as Stock Exchange rules did not allow shares to be allotted to them directly . |
| 11 | The appeal appears to be aimed at preventing further American ‘ humanitarian aid ’ to the contras . |
| 12 | If policy were to concentrate on the ghetto poor — those socially segregated in inner cities whose manufacturing jobs have fled to the suburbs — it could be aimed at very few places . |
| 13 | Development had started in 1958 on multiple warhead rocket vehicles ( MRVS ) which separate in flight and could be aimed at several different targets simultaneously . |
| 14 | An exhibition may be aimed at creating new marketing ideas or providing an arena for marketing . |
| 15 | A rally may be aimed at exciting , motivating or converting people , and so on . |
| 16 | The jet of steam can be aimed at particularly stubborn creases , and there is also a spray attachment which you can use to cover larger areas . |
| 17 | These would be aimed at reaching agreement over what he believed were essential changes to the constitution if the refugee influx was to be curbed . |
| 18 | New , covered shopping centres — for all their obvious advantages in a climate such as ours — tend to be aimed at established shops with a brand name , which can pay a good rent . |
| 19 | While the idea of preserving the total literary output of a nation is the ideal to be aimed at — an ideal relied upon by those who discard gleefully — the fact is that the British Library does not have a copy of every book . |
| 20 | If we are to have a national common curriculum , a balance between its practical and theoretical elements must be aimed at , and the balance observed equally in all areas of learning . |
| 21 | The images of vision are of the same order as creative ideas , but the mind must be aimed at the horizon , and the thoughts must be concentrated in the emotion of creativity . |
| 22 | Commodity price stabilisation schemes appeared to be aimed at interfering with market forces , i.e. demand and supply . |
| 23 | who the advertising will be aimed at ( What socio-economic groups are there ? |
| 24 | The type of changes in the problems that will be aimed at . |
| 25 | If , as the psychodynamic school believes , obesity is fundamentally a psychological problem , it follows that treatment should ideally be aimed at the mind rather than at the body , and that treatment aimed at the body will leave the underlying psychological problem unaltered or even aggravated , similar objections were and still are levelled against behavioural treatments which allegedly deal only with ‘ symptoms ’ , leaving the underlying problem to spring up anew . |
| 26 | There are a range of management/supervisory skills in particular , indicated by many libraries as training priorities , that are well suited to central provision , as Casteleyn noted : ‘ Training courses designed to teach managerial techniques can be aimed at candidates from all kinds of professions and different departments , and it will be extremely beneficial for library staff to mix with colleagues from other departments and disciplines ’ . |
| 27 | For example , management training , which figured prominently as a topic for which there is most need of external course provision has been noted as being very suitable for courses run by own local authority central training units : ‘ Training courses designed to teach managerial techniques can be aimed at candidates from all kinds of professions and different departments , and it will be extremely beneficial for library staff to mix with colleagues from other departments and disciplines . ‘ |
| 28 | The OECD has recently recommended instead that education for improving safety of pedestrians should be aimed at motorists as well as pedestrians , perhaps via mass-media campaigns . |
| 29 | He seemed to answer every question I had ever asked and to have lived a life far above everything I knew was to be aimed at . |
| 30 | You will also have to be prepared to overlook sudden flashes of anger or periods of irritability which may seem to be aimed at you but which are much more likely to be an expression of her natural resentment of the disaster that has befallen her . |