Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the target " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I killed the target . ’ |
| 2 | And er that had to be regulated , regulated as far as fairness and response to er any claim that our members may make in respect of fairness you know , er and it , to enable them to reach the target bonus . |
| 3 | The favourite explanation , however , was ‘ speculative hoarding ’ , and it was this which became the target for government action ( in addition to a series of measures designed to speed up the release and development of land ) . |
| 4 | The real wage rate w which reconciles the target real wage with the feasible real wage at NAIRU should not be taken as a measure of Keynes 's ‘ marginal disutility of employment ’ . |
| 5 | In ERA , small , polystyrene beads are coated with a specific binding agent which captures the target pollutant , virus or bacteria . |
| 6 | A simple decision rule can be used to decide what to do in the case of source units which cross the target unit boundaries . |
| 7 | On the other hand , defensive circulars do not have to comply with the Code 's information and content requirements and do not have to contain a responsibility statement which gives the target company 's board greater latitude ( although , of course , it should avoid negligent or misleading statements and defamatory remarks and copies of its circulars must be lodged with the Panel ) . |
| 8 | The child is then required to retell the story , using the pictures as a guideline , in the expectation that the child will repeat the key words which contain the target phonemes . |
| 9 | The language form which becomes the target for many acquirers of BSL is therefore not BSL itself but rather some pidgin sign form incorporating a great deal of English syntax . |
| 10 | From knowing the actual word that should have been written at a particular position in the input , a simple NAWK program was written which loaded the target word for each position into an associative array , then went through the Q100 lattice and printed out the recognition score assigned to each target word . |
| 11 | On offer to those who raise the target figure is a five-day all expenses trip which includes flights , accommodation in a Central Manhattan hotel , transfers and insurance , guaranteed race entry , participation pack , a specially designed jogging suit , and more ! |
| 12 | The obligation of the target to repay lenders or loan capital in the event of a takeover could result in a dramatic increase in the cost of the bid for the offeror if it has to find the funds itself to enable the target to meet the repayment obligation . |
| 13 | You are going to decide now , by looking at your graph how you could improve this piece of work and I want you to write the target you decide on , it could be more than one , in the space that says I would improve this work by , you 're to write that now please , off you go and while you 're doing that let's get the register done , shh , shh shh , shh Sarah |
| 14 | as you put the target forward , yeah . |
| 15 | Each set consists of adjectives given by six different people who know the target person well . |
| 16 | As regards items ( a ) and ( c ) above , it will be necessary to you to reassure the target on the mutual benefits of the deal , including career development opportunities and the benefits of synergy , so that the shareholders feel less inclined to commence an informal auction for the target . |
| 17 | One way of making sure you hit the target more often is to bring the target nearer . |
| 18 | The shooting gallery was open to members of the public , and was the scene of a spectacular feat of arms by Horace Hunter , who hit the target ‘ in the second buttonhole of the waistcoat , five times out of every six , and when he did n't hit there , he hit him in the head ’ . |
| 19 | Lenders to the bidder who require the target and its subsidiaries to provide authorised financial assistance under CA 1985 , s155 ( see para 22.1.7 below ) , without the prospect of minority opposition , may prefer a Court Scheme for this reason , as may the bidder if he is paying for costly bridging finance in the interim . |
| 20 | This therefore tends to essentialize ‘ the prejudiced individual ’ — the prejudiced teacher or student — who becomes the target for pedagogies that are supposed to cure them of this pathology . |
| 21 | Achievement , I think you might say an achievement is when you reach the target , that 's been an achievement , yeah . |
| 22 | Another management system could be to calculate the modest savings achievable by practices or locally based groups of practices and to pay this sum to those who achieve the target . |
| 23 | So the targets were set er and a new basis of working agreed to mutually with the management , on the understanding that er the existing piecework supplement , erm would be multiplied by three , and that meant that our colleagues were er able to earn something like er three and sixpence old money an hour , if indeed they met the target bonus . |
| 24 | During both this attack and a repeat performance the following night , crews were greeted with an intense barrage of ack-ack as they approached the target which resulted in the loss of seven aircraft and 18 men . |
| 25 | Somehow they bombed the target in perfect weather and unopposed , and returned to Jersey . |
| 26 | If the AE and AD groups differ in the ease with which they acquire the target response to A ( as they well might ) , then differences in test performance might reflect only that there was more conditioned responding to generalize in one case than in the other . |
| 27 | But then they raised the target to 16 then to 18 and so on . |
| 28 | Subjects are given a particular word — let us say the word lead — and then they listen to a pair of sentences and press a button as soon as they hear the target word . |
| 29 | It was only the fact that , as Dorothy said , they believed that ‘ wealth entails social responsibility ’ , that made the activities they funded the target of six decades of jeers and sneers . |
| 30 | So far this season , Nicholas has fired only blanks , 13 matches having passed by without him hitting the target . |