Example sentences of "[adv] aim at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This interpretation of the doctrine is silent on whether individual political action ( voting in elections etc. ) may rightly aim at the promotion of some conception of the good . |
| 2 | ‘ For instance , as far as nature and wildlife is concerned , there are parks , nature reserves , wildlife centres , aquariums , beaches and waterfalls that are not only aimed at the tourist but at local people too , ’ he added . |
| 3 | Consequently , one lesson to criminal law from legal theory is that it should not aim at a comprehensiveness inconsistent with its subject-matter . |
| 4 | A number of interesting new titles are promised by the Antique Collector 's Club based in Suffolk whose books are generally aimed at the collector/dealer market . |
| 5 | The effect of the Acts ‘ was to remove legal immunity from almost all forms of industrial action that were not aimed at the worker 's immediate employer or related conditions of work ’ . |
| 6 | The development focus , on ‘ relational database and on-line transaction processing performance ’ is not aimed at the supercomputer sector . |
| 7 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 8 | It became clear that Iran was still aiming at a battlefield victory , posing specific preconditions for an end to the war : reparations and the removal of Saddam and his entire regime . |
| 9 | The prosecution says it was deliberately aimed at the inspector 's head . |
| 10 | A French force was advancing northwards from Charleroi , probably aiming at the gap between the British and Prussian armies . |
| 11 | We must also aim at the ivory consumers . |
| 12 | Mr Mladenov followed his appointment as Communist Party General Secretary with a speech clearly aimed at the country 's dissident movement , which has been growing . |
| 13 | Yeong 's invention is a wastewater treatment system , mainly aimed at the textile industry , which converts petroleum-based waste sludges into fertiliser . |
| 14 | However , although the Cross Country route has not emerged as a high-speed line per se , it now features a number of useful long-distance trains mainly aimed at the leisure market . |
| 15 | As far as property damage is concerned , the provisions are really aimed at the consumer market , so , if you buy a home computer as a Christmas present for your uncle and because of a fault it catches fire and causes £1,500 of damage to his house , then your uncle will have a claim under the 1987 Act against the manufacturer of the computer for the damage to the house and furniture . |
| 16 | The condemnation by Pecham of those seizing and wasting church property was particularly aimed at the king 's exploitation of the temporal lands of vacant bishoprics . |
| 17 | But we can at least aim at a code that is capable of being understood by a person of average intelligence and of being understood and applied from the four corners of the document that he is directed to consult . |
| 18 | It was , for its time , quite a capable machine , being blessed with 64k of Random Access Memory ( RAM ) and was initially aimed at the home user . |
| 19 | The Committee acknowledged that the report is primarily aimed at the government 's policy for shifting the balance between food production and environmental care . |
| 20 | Mailing DLabel is primarily aimed at the user who wants to print out a run of mailing labels , or serialised labels for whatever purpose , and for those two tasks , it is admirable . |
| 21 | Well , Oxfam week 's principally aimed at a house , house to house collection Jane , so we shall be asking a whole lot of people to get out on the streets and to put envelopes through the doors in their neighbourhood and then to go back later on and collect money which we hope people will kindly give us . |
| 22 | Now one can say well what are we aiming for in terms of the sexual harassment free environment , and I think that what one would be aiming for is if not the atmosphere of a girls ' convent school one 's certainly aiming at an environment where women can work and study and interact without the sense of being constantly on display as sexual objects , and , you know , to that extent I do n't know if it is the case that a large number of the respondents are saying , you know , ‘ I have come from an environment when I have n't had to deal with this before , and I do n't expect to have to deal with it ’ then we should certainly sit up and take notice of that . |
| 23 | This warranty is essentially aimed at the past : the Vendor ought by now to know whether the debts shown in the latest audited Accounts have been good and collectable . |
| 24 | The proposal is specifically aimed at the insurance companies , but FASB also intends it to apply to other entities issuing financial statements which purport to conform with GAAP . |
| 25 | ‘ Nothing Mr Bush said was specifically aimed at the profession — no-one gets elected on the strength of helping accountants — but there is hope . ’ |