Example sentences of "[was/were] aim at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their membership , mainly middle-class , have met considerable difficulty in trying to achieve their limited goals — integrated schooling for the children of those parents who wish it — though some of the membership in the early days were aiming at a total integration of the schooling system . |
| 2 | Certainly , the Serbian forces have publicly admitted that they had targeted the regional museum in Sarajevo : early last month the BBC 's war reporter Kate Adie quoted the Serbian explanation of why they had shelled the hotel which houses all the foreign correspondents : apparently they were aiming at the roof of the museum ( which contains the Bosnian anthropological material ) and missed . |
| 3 | Insofar as this affected the ECSC negotiations , it gave West Germany a far stronger hand and enabled its negotiators to resist some of the French demands , especially those which were aimed at a deconcentration and decartelisation of West Germany 's heavy industries , and to pursue more urgently its own point of view on the future of the Saar . |
| 4 | Both sides agreed that " progress " had been made in the talks , which were aimed at an agreement replacing the 1947 security treaty giving the USA full control over the Clark air base and Subic naval base and four smaller installations . |
| 5 | There were men out there , workmen driving animals and carrying torches whose beams were aimed at the ground . |
| 6 | If these benefits were aimed at the poor — the people who really need them — instead of at everybody , public spending and the taxes required to finance it could fall sharply . |
| 7 | Businessmen were further upset by a series of tax proposals , commonly known as the " soak the rich taxes " , which were aimed at the wealthy and large business corporations . |
| 8 | He accepted [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 857 , 863B–C that neither section 6(2) nor section 61(1) gave power to order the payment of compensation for loss , and agreed , at p. 864A , that both section 6(2) and section 61(1) were aimed at the statutory rescission of unlawful transactions . |
| 9 | ‘ They were aimed at the American market , and quite simply did n't work . |
| 10 | They were aimed at the sky , poised ready to bounce signals off satellites over the rim of the earth . |
| 11 | Western powers were wrong to believe that tsarist troops in Poland were aimed at the heart of Europe , for they were needed where they were . |
| 12 | Erm whilst I 've not been able to produce an audited er set of accounts I do have er a set of figures for you erm and as you said at the the beginning of your opening er speech Mr Chairman that erm we had one or two losses during the year , those er in actual fact did n't erm affect us in thi this particular financial year as they were aimed at the September December period , but therefore they will be reflected in next year 's figures not or in the current year 's figures or the next annual general meeting 's figures . |
| 13 | But yesterday Mr Fallon said his comments were aimed at the local education authority and not the schools themselves . |
| 14 | He had shot one grouse and was aiming at a second when the first bird hit him in the face at 60mph , flinging him unconscious into the heather . |
| 15 | It was unfortunate that , just when he had quelled a great deal of internal disorder and was aiming at a profitable alliance with the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses , he chose as a grand gesture to drive out the English garrison still holding Roxburgh castle , only to be killed when one of his own bombards exploded . |
| 16 | This helps to structure the content of its programmes as well as its public image , and until the mid-1980s , Radio I was aiming at the 16–25 age group . |
| 17 | Despite a heavyweight ( and possibly counterproductive ) lobbying effort by the tobacco companies , its March 14th vote was aimed at a complete ban on all tobacco advertising — a business worth £46m in Britain in 1988 . |
| 18 | The Spurs Club was aimed at a deaf membership that did not use sign language . |
| 19 | It was aimed at a readership of little girls at Pony Club age but also attracted those who did n't own a pony but just felt passionately about horses — a stage little English girls are prone to go through and some never grow out of . |
| 20 | It is thought the bomb was aimed at a member of the security forces . |
| 21 | The UWC was a far more serious threat than the UBC had been : it was entirely outside the control of the party leaders and backed by over a hundred MPs ; it was aimed at a government that included Unionists as well as Liberals ; and it seemed likely to be a vehicle for the overthrow of Bonar Law by Carson . |
| 22 | All this bristling weaponry was aimed at a line of about forty men standing against the wall . |
| 23 | However , after it had been explained that the former was aimed at the past and present situation whereas the latter was about the future , responses were forthcoming and are included in Table 9 . |
| 24 | Injection A was aimed at the representation of the fovea . |
| 25 | In this sense it was aimed at the problems highlighted by the National Unemployed Workers Movement demonstration in 1932 as well as the fascist disturbances . |
| 26 | He stressed throughout the difference between the coal strike , which was industrial and could be negotiated , and the General Strike , which was aimed at the constitution and must be defeated unconditionally . |
| 27 | All four men stood in the room and Farrell raised the pistol once more so that it was aimed at the agent 's head . |
| 28 | It was aimed at the top 60% of school pupils , and was usually taken by 15- and 16-year-olds . |
| 29 | It was aimed at the top 20% of school pupils , and again was usually taken by 15- and 16-year-olds . |
| 30 | Although shops were wrecked in the attack , it is now clear that the bomb was aimed at the security forces rather than commercial properties . |