Example sentences of "[is] aim at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The marketing campaign unveiled yesterday is aimed at a raising the profile of the event among the general public in the United States , where football lags far behind many other sports in popularity . |
| 3 | Witness this peroration : ‘ Evidently Freya Stark is aimed at a readership unfamiliar with the Stark oeuvre and Mrs Izzard reckoned she could get away with any number of unjust distortions . |
| 4 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Dumbarton ( Mr. McFall ) has said , the sponsorship is aimed at a market that identifies sport with glamour and , by extension , with tobacco . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Routledge 's Heritage Gardens by Sheena Goulty is aimed at the professionals tending gardens such as the above ( £45 ) . |
| 7 | After all , the UN is a public body and though the message is aimed at the individual , public media encourage a connection with global identity . |
| 8 | This system is aimed at the home entertainment market . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 11 | The book , which is written in a humorous and easy to understand style , is aimed at the beginner , and covers all you need to know to use Excel 4 for Windows . |
| 12 | It is aimed at the trekker and European walker rather than the British winter walker and costs about £100 . |
| 13 | UnixWare is aimed at the Intel Corp 80386 and 80486 personal computer desktop market but it will also be available for Sparc platforms in 1993 . |
| 14 | The study is aimed at the victims of maturity diabetes , which affects 600,000 people in Britain , and will try to find ways of preventing or delaying the disease . |
| 15 | Most of the information on these one.way systems is aimed at the consumer or private viewer rather than firms or businesses . |
| 16 | Develped jointly with Intel , the Matsushita player is aimed at the consumer market and will be on sale in 1991 under both Matsushita and Intel badges . |
| 17 | What is apparent is that this manual is aimed at the non-specialist technician , possibly an embalmer , who has good knowledge of some medical procedures . |
| 18 | If a punch is aimed at the face , the defender steps out to intercept it before it gains momentum . |
| 19 | The foot is aimed at the face of the opponent and the kicking leg is bent at the knee in a snap motion down across the opponent 's face . |
| 20 | A new Unix expo is on the drawing board , this one , borrowing from the original Comdex , is aimed at the reseller community : Unix Resellers , organized by Expoconsul International in Princeton , New Jersey , is scheduled for May 4–6 1993 at the Dallas Convention Centre . |
| 21 | In the area of population genetics , theoretical and experimental work is aimed at the process of evolution , natural and artificial selection . |
| 22 | It does at the moment according to the reports , everything is aimed at the control and the command network and also and obviously at the military targets , so we 'll just have to wait and see |
| 23 | Stage 2 is aimed at the people who have worked on their business idea with the help of their counsellor over the summer . |
| 24 | The ‘ 48-Lite ’ series of desktop machines comes with a colour screen and is aimed at the business market and it includes the new 78 MIPS , 27SPECint92 EWS4800/110LT which comes with NEC 's own 1,024 by 768 pixel colour thin film liquid crystal diode screen and is priced in the base configuration at $12,272 and the similarly-rated EWS4800/310 , which is the lowest priced Japanese version of System V.4.2 on a desktop RISC workstation , the diskless version being priced at $5,272 and the stand-alone configuration selling for $6,618 . |
| 25 | The ‘ 48-Lite ’ series of desktop machines comes with a colour screen and is aimed at the business market and it includes the new 78 MIPS , 27SPECint92 EWS4800/110LT which comes with NEC 's own 1,024 by 768 pixel colour thin film liquid crystal diode screen and is priced in the base configuration at $12,272 and the similarly-rated EWS4800/310 , which is the lowest priced Japanese version of System V.4.2 on a desktop RISC workstation , the diskless version being priced at $5,272 and the stand-alone configuration selling for $6,618 . |
| 26 | Lest we are in any doubt about where responsibility for pedestrian casualties lies , propaganda on pedestrian accidents is aimed at the pedestrian , rarely at the motorist : as one ‘ public information announcement ’ has it , ‘ One false move and you 're dead . ’ |
| 27 | Sadly , there turns out to be a sound explanation for this instruction it 's aimed at the club audience , who watch the show as it happens on banks of TV monitors . |