Example sentences of "and [verb] the target " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the men put on their gear Turner checked the position of the 17th green on his map of the course and pin-pointed the target area on his OS map . |
| 2 | Jesus blinked and recovered the target star . |
| 3 | It was decided instead to adopt less strict targets for these areas and to tighten the target for the rest of the continent to a 60 per cent gap reduction . |
| 4 | The fall calls into question Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont 's justification in his March budget for imposing VAT on domestic fuel as being necessary to help reduce energy consumption and to meet the target , to which the UK is committed , of stabilising CO2 emissions at the 1990 level of 160 million tonnes by 2000 . |
| 5 | The process of identifying and defining the target group , and the research required to do this , will usually have provided a lot of information , too , about how the consumer thinks about our brand . |
| 6 | We were briefed that if we could not sight and identify the target we had to bring our bombs back . |
| 7 | From these secret meetings evolved the idea of a Force that would actually lead the assault and would be responsible for finding and marking the target for the Main Force . |
| 8 | The term ‘ self-negotiated ’ can , however , also cause confusion , particularly in language teaching where students see their measure of success in their ability to speak and understand the target language and the progress they make in one particular course book . |
| 9 | The ball could n't have bounced better for Steve White , who took aim and and hit the target with some style . |
| 10 | Jules laid the ball off to on-loan Barnsley striker Colin Marshall who ran on and hit the target from just outside the box with the help of the far post . |
| 11 | ‘ In such individuals , a person or a group of persons can be identified in a negative manner and become the target of the sum of the subject 's aggressive emotions . ’ |
| 12 | A second run of the computer began with the phrase : Y YVMQKZPFJXWVHGLAWFVCHQXYOPY , passed through ( again reporting only every tenth generation ) : Y YVMQKSPFTHWSHLIKEFV HQYSPY YTHINKSPITXISHLIKEFA WQYSEY METHINKS IT ISSLIKE A WEFSEY METHINKS IT ISBLIKE A WEASES METHINKS IT ISJLIKE A WEASEO METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEP and reached the target phrase in generation 64 . |
| 13 | ‘ Take down three more torches , and move the target . ’ |
| 14 | He pulled firmly back and cleared the target by twenty feet . |
| 15 | He pulled out of the dive and cleared the target area , every joint and spar in the aeroplane shuddering under the strain . |
| 16 | The authors put in what our research showed to be most needed : more authentic reading texts to revise and extend the target vocabulary , more revision of language structures , and four complete Progress Tests … |