Example sentences of "was aim at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extracts from the Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health were sent in a circular to the Committee ; each area was to aim at providing as effective and complete a service as was practicable . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Moreover , with a politically more secure government and fewer power cuts ( the benefits of new investment were gradually coming through ) , the threat of public exposure could not be as effectively used by the Boards against Whitehall , though the mandarins remained for a time concerned that Citrine was aiming at such an anti-government campaign . |
| 5 | Of The Shadow-Line , a story still more autobiographical in its essence , Conrad said that he was aiming at ‘ the presentation of certain facts , which certainly were associated with the change from youth , care-free and fervent , to the more self-conscious and more poignant period of maturer life ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The rumour that he used his notoriously smooth tongue to get himself recognized as seneschal of France suggests that he was aiming at Anjou , since this was a title claimed by the Counts of Anjou . |
| 8 | In an interview which he gave in this year , he expressed his disappointment at the recent development of English poetry and suggested that any " creative advance " would come in prose fiction or in poetic drama : this is clearly what he himself was aiming at , as if he felt he could achieve in drama what he had already achieved in poetry . |
| 9 | In 2001 Kubrick was aiming at state-of-the-art realism for most of the film ; then he launched off into slightly obscure fantasy in the fourth and last section , ‘ Jupiter and Beyond Infinity ’ . |
| 10 | Iris Murdoch 's fiction represents perhaps what Christine Brooke-Rose was aiming at , not in philosophical or even aesthetic terms , but as narratives which combine readability and lively story-telling with intellectual themes . |
| 11 | Perhaps Webern was aiming at just such a lack of definition , and certainly many composers have been attracted by this very quality , as well as by his intellectualism , over the last thirty years . |
| 12 | Bizat , suspecting that-as the Victorians had discovered — exhibition clientele was going to be a mainstay of the Palace 's economy , started checking out the market he was aiming at . |
| 13 | In consequence , the burgeoning nineteenth-century penal and criminal justice system was aimed at these socially ‘ dangerous classes ’ simply because of their potential for contesting the power of the state and those in control . |
| 14 | The first name was aimed at keeping the initial ‘ L ’ in line with family tradition ; the second was much more significant , relating to the family 's Jewish ethos and hopes , as we shall see . |
| 15 | None of the sixteen taxes endured by the Nikol'skaia peasants was aimed at capital held in the form of equipment . |
| 16 | The directive was aimed at Sinn Fein and the UDA but it could not have been the legislators ' intention that the broadcasting authority should be impartial between the terrorists and the terrorised . |
| 17 | Lozano had claimed that the motorcycle was aimed at him , and that he had no time to leap out of the way . |
| 18 | Lozano had claimed that the motorcycle was aimed at him , and that he had no time to leap out of the way . |
| 19 | The fixing of the amounts of compensation made it very difficult for the investors to refuse and it was aimed at defending the DTI from outright criticism as well as preventing public uproar , he said . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Bacon 's method was aimed at discovering the formal causes of particular phenomena . |
| 22 | Like all such schemes prepared by left-wing militants , this plan was aimed at putting the company in a ‘ Catch 22 ’ situation . |
| 23 | His reformist programme , partly economic , partly political , was aimed at creating a more open ‘ communism with a human face ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Production was aimed at self-sufficiency in livestock products and field vegetables . |
| 26 | This division was aimed at establishing regular bishoprics which combined secular and religious political control ; such bishoprics would be part of the state system of government along with minor kingships , dukes , counts and other nobles and officials . |
| 27 | One of the most famous was Freire 's Movement of Popular Culture in Brazil 's north-east , which was aimed at raising the consciousness of his students . |
| 28 | The press conference , called by families with members in the military , was aimed at slowing Bush 's rush to war . |
| 29 | Physiotherapy treatment was aimed at reducing Dawn 's pain , lessening her spasticity , and trying to recover selective control of the movements in her left foot , ankle and knee . |
| 30 | The change was aimed at reducing stoppages for offside , which in the 1920s were the cause of much monotony as full-backs played further and further upfield . |