The phrase "aims to be something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a goal or intention of a person, organization, or project to achieve a certain status or characteristic.
Example: "The new initiative aims to be a leader in sustainable practices within the industry."
Alternatives: "strives to become" or "intends to be".
The Watch Enthusiast also aims to be something of a watchdog in a largely unregulated industry.
zTailors, the new company Zimmer launched Monday, aims to be something of an Uber for tailors, helping to link fragmented independent business owners with customers.
WITH its reclaimed church pews and Edison bulbs, NoBar aims to be something that this strip of fried-chicken outlets and dollar stores in Bedford-Stuyvesant lacks: a stylish but unpretentious bar.
The announcement, made last Sunday, that the Party is proposing to abolish term limits for the Presidency further confirms the notion that Xi aims to be something other than just another leader in a parade of apparatchiks.
"All Hopped Up and Ready to Go," by Tony Fletcher, an English music journalist who moved to Manhattan in the 1980s and now lives in upstate New York, aims to be something that the field of New York City pop-music studies really needs: a casebook of meaningful contact among its populations.
Unlike the other biennales, tri-annuals and one-off events that have the denizens of the art world scurrying from Venice to Sydney, from Sao Paulo to Istanbul, Documenta aims to be something more than a ratification of the latest, hottest art.
Bunch, a newly-launched startup operating out of Berlin, is aiming to be something akin to a "Google Analytics for company culture".
ClickMechanic, the U.K. startup aiming to be something like an 'Uber for car mechanics' by offering a marketplace that lets you easily and transparently book a mobile mechanic, has scored a modest seed round.
The name serves as an advertisement that the company aims to be about something more than making a profit for its shareholders.
A new startup called SocialRent aims to be that something better.
