Example sentences of "aiming at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common drill — and this is even practised by the better players who may be struggling with their groundstrokes — is to put targets within 60–90cm ( 2–3ft ) of the baseline and inside tramline and think in terms of rallying while aiming at the targeted areas . |
| 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 | Young photographers aiming at the poster market have taken to copying his style . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At The Hague , still aiming at the illustrated magazine market , he concentrated on figures in action , and in the process would be distracted by other subjects : by shabby house fronts , factories , drying sheds , parks , churches , refuse dumps , freight yards . |
| 6 | His publishers are now aiming at the US market , and Hutson is touring America next year to promote Heathen . |
| 7 | Yeremi peered every which where for weapons which might be aiming at the now-inactive macro cannon on their carapace , or at their left shoulder where d'Arquebus was ensconced . |
| 8 | It should need no stressing that even today , when more and more actors ( those in work ) are aiming at the regular working-day/mortgage belt , affairs , amours and just plain sex inside a company is not unknown . |
| 9 | V6028 plunged through a hail of flak , dodging balloon cables and aiming at the centre of the docks . |
| 10 | A French force was advancing northwards from Charleroi , probably aiming at the gap between the British and Prussian armies . |
| 11 | The French guns were firing at the flanks of the Prince 's position ; aiming at the farmhouses to east and west . |
| 12 | The company says that it will not initially be aiming at the unfamiliar Unix community , instead it has set its sights on its existing customers , and IBM mainframe sites , which are increasingly feeling the push towards Unix . |
| 13 | The company says that it will not initially be aiming at the unfamiliar Unix community , instead it has set its sights on its existing customers , and IBM mainframe sites , which are increasingly feeling the push towards Unix . |
| 14 | When threatened , you attack , aiming at the vulnerability exposed in the other . |
| 15 | It is easy to understand the hulk , whose only cricketing merit is the ability to bowl faster than others , aiming at the batsman 's head . |
| 16 | Aiming at the Continentals , Japanese and travelling Americans from the Hotel Bristol |
| 17 | Certainly , the Serbian forces have publicly admitted that they had targeted the regional museum in Sarajevo : early last month the BBC 's war reporter Kate Adie quoted the Serbian explanation of why they had shelled the hotel which houses all the foreign correspondents : apparently they were aiming at the roof of the museum ( which contains the Bosnian anthropological material ) and missed . |
| 18 | The minority , including Eleanor Rathbone , while not opposed to the redistribution of income in favour of the poor ( Rathbone , 1949 , p. 29 ) , argued that they should also be aiming at the redistribution of income in favour of those with family responsibilities within each income group . |
| 19 | Forget the flourish of the big white napkin , forget two thumbs on the cork 's corona , forget aiming at the bulbs in the recessed ceiling-lights . |
| 20 | Broadening product-range ( the company are also aiming at the ‘ company chairman ’ market , pitching a recreated Lagonda at Rolls-Bentley 's traditional slot ) will undoubtedly ensure that Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd circa 2010 is a more secure financial proposition than in 1980 . |
| 21 | Often they gave priority to foreign markets outside Europe , usually aiming at the USA as the biggest and best entry point for a global marketing strategy ; this might involve buying struggling American companies , which continued to make losses . |
| 22 | Nobody could expect you to think up anything as stupid as a dumb movie actress aiming at the front page . ’ |
| 23 | Pulling his rifle to his shoulder he squinted along the barrel , aiming at the broadest part of the deer 's neck . |
| 24 | Fergus was lying on the couch , aiming at the centre of the ceiling . |
| 25 | Several hotel and leisure groups are already beginning to diversify into this field : they are aiming at the top and more lucrative end of the market , charging fees well above the DSS limits . |
| 26 | The government 's ambitious reforms aiming at the revitalization of the national economy and the introduction of a fully operating free-market mechanism , outlined by Antall in May 1990 [ see p. 37465 ] , incorporated privatization , together with efforts to increase exports , to enter the world economy and to attract foreign investment . |
| 27 | Our data may , however , serve as a basis for further studies aiming at the identification of regulatory factors ( for example , hormones , lymphokines , cytokines ) that modulate the expression and function of integrins of colorectal cancer cells . |
| 28 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 29 | Honda is also producing its own version with a different body design and they 're both aiming at the same end of the market . |
| 30 | ‘ We are aiming at the Northern area because we feel it is desperately under-served , ’ he says , adding that discussions are also under way with Yorkshire Arts about touring in that area . |