Example sentences of "aim at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his interest grew as he worked , and he began to aim at a comprehensive expository commentary on Epicurus . |
| 2 | It therefore has to aim at a carefully judged angle to the apparent direction if it is going to score a hit . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 5 | While the Government would like to aim at an insurance pool of around £500m a year , the industry thinks this would be optimistic . |
| 6 | What prompts him to this unexpected adjective is that ( as Bunting stressed ) the poems these men admired were not ‘ simplified to aim at the poor ’ , but ‘ written for a hard intellectual audience ’ . |
| 7 | their demand for control can not be restricted to one of self-government within the enterprise , but it will have to aim at the development of a complex institutional system that will be able to strike a balance between the need for worker autonomy within the enterprise on the one hand , and the need for economic co-ordination at higher economic levels on the other . |
| 8 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |
| 9 | He urged his men to aim at the cannon themselves ; but this was difficult to do with such clumsy pieces , with considerable trial and error involved . |
| 10 | He began to aim at the other man , who was reloading his Luger , but was stopped by the Doctor 's hand on his shoulder . |
| 11 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |
| 12 | You control the gun sights movement with your mouse and the idea is to aim at the moving targets using your mouse button to shoot . |
| 13 | It was agreed to harmonize fiscal incentives for investors and to aim at the creation of a monetary union by 1995 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Train for accuracy , range and control by aiming at a target mitt ( this is not suitable for front kick practice ) . |
| 16 | In the past , most plans were sold strictly door-to-door by companies such as Prudential and Pearl , but now companies aiming at a more affluent middle-class market have started to move in . |
| 17 | The Pier home style is rustic and affordable , Richards aiming at a holiday feel with wicker , scented candles , ceramics , glass and handmade cushions . |
| 18 | We are aiming at a publication date of mid-November this year for the IBM version . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Straight ahead and aiming at a silver moon the tarmac is a dark rich salmon colour , burnt orangey in places and patched with indigo . |
| 21 | When a human being does X in order to do Y , the achieving of Y is his reason for doing X. When an animal does X in order to do Y , he does not do X for a reason , even though he is aiming at a goal in doing so . |
| 22 | The Americans had originally been aiming at a tenfold multiplication . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Should we — women and men — be aiming at a common ethical conception , a shared moral perspective ? |
| 25 | Airlife have produced a revised edition of the Microlight Flying Manual , that seminal tome by Ron Campbell and John Jones which looks at the aeronautical world strictly from the perspective of pilots who are aiming at a Group D licence . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Aiming at a very specific readership , they carried shorter articles written in the jargon of the various separate sciences . |
| 28 | It also recommended an increase in the numbers of educational psychologists , aiming at a ratio of one per 10,000 children . |
| 29 | A government resolution aiming at a solution of the cash crisis , reported on May 15 , included the introduction of non-cash methods of payment exclusively for transactions worth over 10,000 roubles ( 1 rouble=US$0.5646 at the official rate as at May 18 , 1992 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |