Example sentences of "and aim at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was agreed to harmonize fiscal incentives for investors and to aim at the creation of a monetary union by 1995 . |
| 2 | Courses were still expected to provide ‘ as balanced an educational experience as possible ’ , and to aim at developing in students a number of abilities : |
| 3 | And there are numerous ‘ science centres ’ the world over , generally having no collections of relics or precious objects , but dealing instead with ‘ hands-on ’ experience and aiming at the lively presentation of ideas in preference to artifacts . |
| 4 | Straight ahead and aiming at a silver moon the tarmac is a dark rich salmon colour , burnt orangey in places and patched with indigo . |
| 5 | V6028 plunged through a hail of flak , dodging balloon cables and aiming at the centre of the docks . |
| 6 | Such are the difficulties that have been found when trying to scale up toy grammars that computational linguists are drifting away from the creation of demo-sized systems and aiming at larger systems . |
| 7 | Roughly speaking , the technique starts from the assumption that an object ( here a drawing ) consists of a bundle of observable characteristics ( true attributes such as technique used , subject , dimensions , artist , year of sale , etc ) and aims at inferring statistically the non-observable ‘ price ’ of each such characteristic . |
| 8 | Lepine stops at the door of study room C-228 , raises his rifle and aims at a student at the bottom of the room . |
| 9 | Out of that curve , Doohan grabs another gear and the warbling exhaust note signals that the rear tyre is still scrabbling for grip as he shifts up again and aims at the daunting , sixth gear left on to the back straight . |
| 10 | But in our time this great complexity has been reduced , in virtually all states , to a gratifying simplicity : for power to become authority , it must originate in ‘ democratic consent ’ and aim at the ‘ common good ’ or ‘ public interest ’ … |
| 11 | She dropped the saucepan as she saw him raise the pistol and aim at her . |
| 12 | For U K P L C to succeed in the years ahead , we simply have to agree objectives , navigate by the same map , and aim at the same goals . |
| 13 | On a more general note we MUST rationalize our charging policy or add-on services — CAL , CDROM , Online — and aim at some sort of consistency . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , this work is made unnecessarily hard because most technical textbooks are unfriendly , obscure and aimed at specialist readers . |
| 15 | Supervision should be rigid and aimed at reproducing the style and level typical of normal operations . |
| 16 | These arguments were directed against the corrupting accumulation of astounding wealth by private individuals , and aimed at bolstering the prestige of Rome as the most powerful state in the Mediterranean world . |
| 17 | It was in 1688 that he became a leader of the seven bishops , including Archbishop Sancroft of Canterbury , who refused to ‘ make themselves parties ’ to the two Declarations of Indulgence issued by James II and aimed at giving the Nation a greater degree of religious tolerance , thus taking some of the pressure off the Roman Catholics . |
| 18 | The Video book was never intended for broadcast ; it is made from library film footage transferred to disc and tape for video issue , and aimed at the relatively limited number of people who will want to buy or hire it . |
| 19 | The Brooklands is Rolls-Royce/Bentley 's ‘ entry model ’ , replacing both the Mulsanne and the Bentley 8 and aimed at enticing first-time owners into the Crewe fold . |
| 20 | These are uni-directional microphones mounted on booms which can be swung overhead and aimed at individual speakers ; they are mainly used for recording drama , and require skilled operation by an assistant . |
| 21 | They are often unjustified criticism and aimed at an area you ca n't do too much about , like your appearance . |
| 22 | Not to be defeated , the following year Scott started a new paper , the African Times , which was even more strongly anti-Federation and aimed at liberal-minded whites and Africans . |
| 23 | Previous editions had been published on cheap paper , crudely printed and illustrated , and aimed at a working-class readership . |
| 24 | While the Whirlwind is aimed at skiers , Phoenix are already working on a new line of garments made form Italian fleece and aimed at walkers and climbers . |
| 25 | This is an instructional tape which illustrates the actual technique of hand knitting in a slow and clear format which is easy to follow and aimed at teaching the beginner to master the basic techniques . |
| 26 | h/b £7.95 Shortlisted for the 1992 Times Education Supplement Senior Information Award , and aimed at secondary school students . |
| 27 | There is however a real SunBox : a four-box rack-mounted cluster due in July and aimed at Auspex Systems Inc 's NFS file servers . |
| 28 | The biggest single chunk of the firm 's spending over the past four years has been on the development of Windows NT , due to be launched on May 24th and aimed at the large and fast-growing market for the software that can link together sprawling networks of PCs . |
| 29 | A more powerful colour Macintosh , using a 25MHz 68030 and aimed at the multimedia market with at least 4Mb memory , a 40Mb disk and 14″ colour Trinitron display with 640 by 480 pixel resolution , is expected to cost under $1,900 . |
| 30 | This is the major change in this year 's Xtra process which will also see the introduction of a European Xtra conference in Dusseldorf in November , continuous workshops to refine requirements throughout the year and educational seminars run by X/Open and aimed at users . |