Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 31 he had urged President Hosni Mubarak to submit to parliament legislation better targeted at combating Islamic fundamentalism than the emergency legislation in force since late 1981 . |
| 2 | Within the next two or three years , seven major studies , all aimed at reducing coronary risks on a massive scale , will have reported their findings . |
| 3 | The proposed Directive is only aimed at establishing essential standards and principles and member states will remain free to extend its ambit to unlisted or private companies . |
| 4 | Districts in the region are already looking at deferring planned developments , extending Christmas ward closures and freezing staff appointments . |
| 5 | But government departments , medical charities , industry and so on generally baulk at paying full overhead costs , arguing that providing the ‘ well found lab ’ is the job of the universities ( the ministry view ) or that ‘ we have already paid the overheads through our taxes ’ ( the industry view ) . |
| 6 | Their direct-action tactics did not aim at involving large numbers of people in militant action ; they were propaganda stunts designed to attract an audience . |
| 7 | My comments are therefore not aimed at creating fixed rules , but at offering ideas . |
| 8 | Robert Milne , chief executive of the Scottish Fish Merchants Federation , claimed the board 's review of import charges was deliberately aimed at discouraging foreign fish consignments at Europe 's premier white-fish port . |
| 9 | Networking : pilot work is underway to look at creating European databases of information on vocational qualifications . |
| 10 | Ostensibly designed to help poor African consumers , the beef programme is really aimed at helping rich European farmers . |
| 11 | er this is really aimed at controlling agricultural prices and trying to have a stable market within agriculture . |
| 12 | The statement followed a decision by the French nuclear reprocessing authority , Cogema , reportedly aimed at allaying public fears , to reveal details of the extraction process and packaging of the plutonium . |
| 13 | The move , reportedly aimed at assuaging Chinese fears about growing unrest among India 's estimated 110,000 Tibetan exiles , came as their spiritual leader , His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , the 14th Dalai Lama , gained increasing recognition from government leaders in the USA and the UK [ see pp. 38097 ; 38190 ] . |
| 14 | In 1953 a detailed examination of the Piltdown remains demonstrated conclusively that they were faked and had been planted as part of an elaborate hoax , evidently aimed at manipulating scientific views on human evolution . |
| 15 | The United States department of defence is currently looking at using multi media to train reservists , and a few publishers are using it as an exciting new media for publishing encyclopaedias . |
| 16 | There would also be a number of practical difficulties , however , in extending such a model to the English sentencing tradition , particularly if a system of legislative guide-lines were adopted , and more so if they were explicitly aimed at reducing overall punitiveness . |