Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the target " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect became the target unemployment rate while , was the unpleasant , but inevitable , concomitant of this target rate . |
| 2 | Three minutes after the interval the Kent side found the target when a lob from Hunt caught Cheesewright off his line and Leslie was on hand to apply the final touch . |
| 3 | In this case , the expansion card hosting the target processor comes to the fore . |
| 4 | The exact time taken by the computer to reach the target does n't matter . |
| 5 | Also the subject of discussion and refinement during the first term are the number of offers to be made for each field to reach the target ( the offer ratio ) and the A level grades normally required for entry . |
| 6 | If the branch achieves the target , each employee ( bar the manager , who is assessed separately ) will receive £40 . |
| 7 | MONKLANDS District Council became the target of fresh accusations yesterday after it abandoned legal action against the local newspaper that had run a campaign against an alleged jobs-for-the-boys ‘ mafia . ’ |
| 8 | It will certainly not allow the Chancellor to meet the target that he set himself last year of a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 9 | Your mission is to fly over horizontally scrolling enemy territory , hitting the space bar to bomb the target ( bridge , fort etc . ) |
| 10 | The assessment of the bidder 's capacity to run the target company is , in other words , something which lies within the range of the directors ' expertise . |
| 11 | Death and injury on our roads touch all our lives and the Council continues in its determination to achieve the target and to make Lothian the safest region in Europe for all categories of transport and road user . |
| 12 | The arm is rotated just before impact , so that the fist hits the target in a type of screwing motion . |
| 13 | If the changes revealed by this comparison have not been made prior to the audit commencing , this could be the reason for the failure to meet the target levels of attainment . |
| 14 | He is thus able to move from one stance into another very quickly , and the angled position of the body narrows the target offered to his opponent . |
| 15 | ‘ We are particularly proud to hear that Shell raised the Target Zero flag at Seafield House in honour of the occasion ’ . |
| 16 | Once you have established your body posture , remember to rotate the head to see the target . |
| 17 | Holding on still with one hand , I took a visual line ahead from the north needle to mark into memory the furthest small tree I could see , then put the compass away again and with infinite slowness clawed a way forward by inches and after a while reached the target and held on to it for dear life . |
| 18 | At all other times , but particularly in the change from less to greater liberality and vice versa , then obscenity becomes the target . |
| 19 | This decline is postulated to be a classically conditioned decrement , with the consistent absence of any effective event following the target stimulus being viewed as the US that supports the conditioning of inattention ( see Lubow et al . |
| 20 | So perhaps my overkill misses the target : perhaps the behaviourist analysis of perception is sound , even though a general behaviourism is not , and what BS lacks is not knowledge of the nature of certain mental states , but only the ability to respond spontaneously to visual stimuli , that is , to respond as a result of actually seeing them . |
| 21 | The defender blocks by turning his body sideways so that the blow misses the target , and then counter-attacks with a palm-hand strike aimed upwards at the opponent 's chin ; this in its turn may be countered by a downwards slapping motion with a flat-palm strike to the attacker 's hand and finished off with a backfist strike to the nose , using the same hand that was used to block . |
| 22 | Obviously , GPs who prescribed in this manner became the target for those already using other drugs , including the older heroin users who knew that , when crushed and injected , these drugs gave a ‘ better hit ’ than heroin . |
| 23 | The results suggest that there is insufficient information in a mid-class representation ( or average phoneme graph depth of around three equally ranked phonemes ) for post-lexical processing to select the target word-string . |
| 24 | The remaining three terms ' grant can be reinstated at whichever point the student reaches the target resulting , again , in some students graduating at Christmas or Easter after their originally expected date of completion . |
| 25 | It needed a lot of experience to be able to hold it correctly so that all the twenty-five shots in the magazine riddled the target . |
| 26 | Similarly the " stopping rate " is the maximum stepping rate which can be suddenly switched off without the motor overshooting the target position . |
| 27 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 28 | As the punch strikes the target area or , correctly speaking , just an inch short of the area — in karate , no actual full-power blows are landed on the opponent 's body — the defender emits a loud shout or yell . |
| 29 | We will set a target as a total of private- and public-sector savings , and adjust fiscal policy to achieve the target over the medium term . |
| 30 | Additional officers in a police van were called to give them back up and in turn became the target for bricks and stones . |