Example sentences of "[adv] aim at [art] " 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 | Who can actually fight the war , and I 'm just wondering , politically is it going to be a good idea to knowingly , not necessarily aim at the general population , but in the process of taking out the targets , extend it to the general population , well what do you think of that ? |
| 3 | Further publications followed , all aimed at a parliamentary audience : A Breviat of Some Proposals for the promoting of Industry ( 1679 ) , including wool as well as linen manufacture in the workhouse scheme ; A Method of Government for Such Publick Working Alms-Houses ( 1679 ) , proposing the union of small parishes for workhouse purposes and the election of ‘ delegates or overseers ’ by contributing parishes to oversee the new institutions ; and finally England 's Weal and Prosperity Proposed ( 1681 ) , a summary statement . |
| 4 | Re-released by Old Gold in 1988 , the record sold well but was only aimed at a collectors and oldie jukebox market . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | I think a lot of the modern maths that we 've , we 've heard about is still very much aimed at the brighter children who were going to do O-level and , and beyond even in mathematics . |
| 7 | His manager , Simon , who was also Cyril 's elder brother , had persuaded him to lower his sights — or rather to aim at a different and better target . |
| 8 | ‘ We are not aiming at a local audience , but are bearing the EEC in mind , and of course all those who come to the Frankfurt Book Fair at the same time . ’ |
| 9 | Consequently , one lesson to criminal law from legal theory is that it should not aim at a comprehensiveness inconsistent with its subject-matter . |
| 10 | The empirical evaluation of teaching/learning activities does not aim at the exact specification of causes but at increased awareness of different factors which bear upon the learning process in particular classrooms . |
| 11 | It may reflect the thought that although we do not aim at the ‘ truth ’ — i.e. our immediate aims are for simple solutions to empirical problems — nevertheless , the truth is what we end up with . |
| 12 | But until very recently systems were generally aimed at the top end of the market , and the cost was high enough to make acquisition a major undertaking . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In 1959 Dore Ashton was dismissed by the New York Times , the charges being that her articles were not aimed at a wide newspaper audience , and her articles on work by artist friends gave evidence of bias ( her husband , whose work she was forbidden to review , was a painter and print-maker called Adja Yunkers ) . |
| 15 | The price of books of academic criticism indicates that they are not aimed at the educated general reader ( once they cost about the same as a bottle of whisky ; now they cost three to four times as much ) . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | The development focus , on ‘ relational database and on-line transaction processing performance ’ is not aimed at the supercomputer sector . |
| 18 | I confess to having myself once described a particularly abstruse provision as ‘ something of a minor masterpiece of opacity ’ , but I regret it because I think that such shafts are frequently not aimed at the right target . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | TOTTS is largely aimed at the under fives and aims to teach them road safety through play . |
| 21 | It was just aimed at the wrong person . ’ |
| 22 | Often they gave priority to foreign markets outside Europe , usually aiming at the USA as the biggest and best entry point for a global marketing strategy ; this might involve buying struggling American companies , which continued to make losses . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At The Hague , still aiming at the illustrated magazine market , he concentrated on figures in action , and in the process would be distracted by other subjects : by shabby house fronts , factories , drying sheds , parks , churches , refuse dumps , freight yards . |
| 25 | The prosecution says it was deliberately aimed at the inspector 's head . |
| 26 | These ‘ Notes ’ , whilst ostensibly aimed at the Trotskyist Opposition ( which had officially been routed in 1927 ) were in reality directed against the ‘ super-industrialisers ’ amongst the ruling majority . |
| 27 | This kick is usually aimed at a fleshy area of the body . |
| 28 | For heaven 's sake , it was almost directly aimed at the unemployed . ’ |
| 29 | This was directly aimed at the ‘ surplus countries ’ , especially Japan and Germany , and was an attempt to bind them into a system where they could not pile up persistent surpluses . |
| 30 | The idealists , committed to European federalism , have always aimed at a United States of Europe , with not just a single market and monetary union but a common defence and foreign policy as well . |