Example sentences of "be aimed at the " in BNC.

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1 But these protests should not be aimed at the Vice Chancellors .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 EC funding was obtained for a new project , to start in 1991 , which will be aimed at the development of metallogenic/economic models and sets of exploration criteria suitable for gold exploration in western Europe from the analysis of multiple datasets ( including mineral occurrence , geological , geochemical , geophysical and remotely sensed datasets ) .
6 Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow .
7 Briefing courses may be aimed at the employee only or organisations may encourage the employee 's spouse to attend the briefing sessions .
8 Furthermore , this exercise should be aimed at the ‘ bright ’ pupils .
9 Chameleon chips will be aimed at the Transputer 's traditional telecommunications markets , along with more mainstream computer markets , multimedia workstations and portables , database and computing servers .
10 The thing will be aimed at the corporate and commercial transaction processing markets and will run SQL relational databases like Oracle and Ingres when it comes to market in 1994 or 1995 .
11 Chameleon chips will be aimed at the Transputer 's traditional telecommunications markets , along with more mainstream computer markets , multimedia workstations and portables , database and computing servers .
12 Moreover this device would not really be aimed at the crucial needs involved .
13 Whilst the pert , Californian sexuality of Baywatch bimbos seems to be aimed at the heart of adolescent lust , Schiffer possesses a vital ambiguity within her features and her poise which recreates her as a story waiting to be told , as opposed to a fantasy waiting to be fulfilled .
14 The problem drinker in our society can be defined as any person who experiences social , psychological or physical problems as a consequence of his or her own repeated drinking , and services should not only be aimed at the individuals themselves but also at family members who suffer as a result of someone else 's drinking .
15 The whole package appears to be aimed at the accomplished user as the beginner could have some difficulty .
16 It does , however , need much pre-planning and administration , which is probably the reason why competitions tend to be aimed at the national level , and involve high value prizes such as holidays and cars , so that consumer response is great enough to cover the costs of the promotion .
17 However it is not just the press that 's causing Parker difficulties — the company 's personal computer , mid-range and networking arms are all happy to explain how they are perfectly capable of running enterprise-wide applications , and the company 's most swingeing cuts are being aimed at the Enterprise Systems division .
18 There were men out there , workmen driving animals and carrying torches whose beams were aimed at the ground .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 ‘ They were aimed at the American market , and quite simply did n't work .
23 They were aimed at the sky , poised ready to bounce signals off satellites over the rim of the earth .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 But yesterday Mr Fallon said his comments were aimed at the local education authority and not the schools themselves .
27 Above all it is aimed at the country 's railways , where disorganisation and disruption and not only in politically-inflamed Soviet Transcaucasia have caused dangerous shortfalls of coal and oil stocks at power stations , and of other raw materials at factories across the country .
28 Restart is aimed at the long-term unemployed and involves interviews with the employment department .
29 The second main emphasis of Callinicos ' critique is aimed at the philosophy most frequently regarded as underpinning claims for the distinction of a postmodern culture , viz. poststructuralism .
30 Another criticism is aimed at the Nine O'Clock News on Friday March 20 , which opened with three minutes of a Kinnock speech .
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