Example sentences of "the target " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report details the targets which the Working Party developed for five main areas of public health concern , and the associated needs for improved information and data sources . |
| 2 | In service the targets were beaten from day one . |
| 3 | The targets will be the means by which pupils ' progress is measured . |
| 4 | Mr Howe says the targets for legislation should be hacking for personal gain , the gain of someone else , or to cause damage . |
| 5 | The reduction in numbers was still startlingly small — for example , even after the convertibility crisis of 1947 had led to a further downward revision of the targets for 31 March 1948 , there were still 937,000 in uniform , supported by 350,000 in supplying industries . |
| 6 | No club was named in the piece but Wyre Boat Angling Club have complained to Angler 's Mail that they recognized themselves as the targets of Bob 's attack — and say his comments are inaccurate , totally unjustified and reflect solely a minority view . |
| 7 | In the frequent racial fights , reception class children are usually the targets . |
| 8 | In the first case the task is easier if the targets are larger , are closer to each other and more regularly arranged . |
| 9 | It lies on the eastern edge of the Ruhr coalfield and is some fifteen miles from the Möhne Dam , one of the targets of the famous ‘ Dambusters ’ raid . |
| 10 | European Community countries were the targets for 40% of the world 's travel activity . |
| 11 | At the beginning of the annual costing exercises there is usually a significant gap between the targets set by the Treasury and the genuine requirements of the Services , which no amount of discounting can bridge . |
| 12 | The allies could , and should , do more to minimise the chances of further disasters ; they could , for instance , stop bombing Baghdad , where the targets of greatest military value must have already been destroyed . |
| 13 | The targets are black men with superimposed concentric circles declining to a solid , black bullseye . |
| 14 | They felt they had hit the targets by going on about tax and emphasising the warning that votes for the Lib Dems would only help Labour . |
| 15 | This could be in his favour , as the penalties for failing to hit the targets at the par-fives are known to all television viewers . |
| 16 | The movie , made in 1988 , is a good pointer to what has happened to Allen : the targets he once pricked with flip but divine one-liners — the shrinks , the Life / Death / Weltschmerz question — are no longer a laughing matter as America 's greatest contemporary wit approaches the mid-September of his days . |
| 17 | The focus of social work shifts from a concern with achieving personal change to social change , so the targets of intervention become the economic , social , and political processes which generate social problems . |
| 18 | Traditional family casework focuses on the identified members as clients , whereas the targets of unitary interventions range more broadly from non-client members through to neighbourhoods and other social systems . |
| 19 | If the targets of the EC Large Plant Directive are followed ( see below ) , the UK will be Western Europe 's largest NOx polluter in this category between 1993 and 1998 . |
| 20 | All those concerned need to believe that the targets are being set at a level which is achievable . |
| 21 | The targets for emissions — and therefore number of licences available — will be reduced year by year , leading to a steady fall in pollution . |
| 22 | Following consultations , the Secretaries of State made an Order on 31 May 1989 covering the targets and programmes in English for key stage 1 only . |
| 23 | 17.61 Those aspects of the targets which relate to the writing process , as distinct from the product , should be covered by mainly internal assessment — for example , probing pupils ' ability to reflect upon and discuss the organisation of their own writing . |
| 24 | Pupils may achieve other worthwhile things as well as those specified in the targets , and we would not wish teachers to feel limited by them . |
| 25 | For much of the period and up to the First World War , the targets of the largest movements of national liberation were the two great empires of Eastern and Central Europe — that of the Romanovs in the Russias and of the Habsburgs in Austro-Hungary . |
| 26 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 27 | While the ancient ambivalence in attitudes to ageing , symbolized in this division , undoubtedly survives , the targets have shifted . |
| 28 | It would of course be possible for a British Telecom engineer to disclose such information to the targets of the tapping . |
| 29 | They had to carry a table out with them , which was set up the required ten metres from the shed wall , and the pistols were laid out , and the targets pinned up . |
| 30 | The targets of these attacks , beatings , kidnappings and murders have been trade unionists , peasants ( especially those involved in campaigns for land redistribution and resistance to recruitment into civil defence patrols ) and Indians who have given themselves up to the army and been taken to resettlement areas after years of living in hiding in the mountains . |