Example sentences of "set a target " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Poles , Hungarians and Czechs want the EC to set a target date for their entry . |
| 2 | The first things Dipesh Shah did when he became managing director of BP Solar in March 1991 were to set a target for the next two years and to articulate it to everyone in the company . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | we should , we should set a target , an initial target , that we wish to hi to hit . |
| 5 | In the agriculture and forestry sector the committee would set a target only for rice production , leaving export quotas for other major products such as rubber and coffee to be set by government departments . |
| 6 | Cos you got ta set a target now before |
| 7 | SIX YEARS AGO , at a conference in Argentina the United Nations set a target for the 1980s : clean water and sanitation for all . |
| 8 | They have set a target of one viable , gospel preaching church for every thousand of the population . |
| 9 | They had set a target of £5,000 , the same amount that was raised in Manchester and Salford in 1981 , and were delighted when a record of £6,141 was collected . |
| 10 | The European Community has set a target to reduce landfill use from its present rate of 70 per cent to 10 per cent by the beginning of the next century . |
| 11 | Each was set a target which had to be achieved to earn a place in a ‘ super league ’ . |
| 12 | In 1991 they raised more than £3,000 for the national BBC appeal and , after taking a well-earned year off , organisers have set a target of £10,000 . |
| 13 | The Government has set a target date of 1991 for the development of occupational standards relating to the majority of occupations in the UK . |
| 14 | For those who still feel that we are lagging , let me say that Britain is one of only a handful of countries to have set a target for reductions in carbon dioxide . |
| 15 | We have set a target date of 31 December 1987 for all submissions on the basis of which we will construct 12 year implementation programmes . |
| 16 | You will recall that we have set a target date of 31 December 1987 for all submissions setting out the perceived needs of governing bodies of sport for national and sub-national facilities , to provide the basis of a 12-year implementation programme . |
| 17 | The 1987 joint programme of the ruling Social Democrats ( SPÖ ) and Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) [ see p. 35088 ] had set a target of keeping the 1991 deficit below 3 per cent . |
| 18 | The United States is also deeply involved in the promotion of ethanol production and has set a target of approximately 3477 million litres a year of alcohol for fuel use by 1982 . |
| 19 | The Dutch government has set a target of producing 1,000 megawatts of electricity by the year 2000 thorough wind power generation . |
| 20 | But the government has set a target of recycling twenty-five percent of household waste by the end of the century . |
| 21 | Conservatives have set a target of £20,000 to raise for the General Election campaign . |
| 22 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 23 | The North-East network has set a target that 90pc of short distance trains for example from Newcastle to Sunderland should arrive within five minutes of scheduled times . |
| 24 | We had set a target of 50 tonnes per month maximum of caustic lost to drain and quickly met and indeed exceeded that . |
| 25 | As mentioned previously , the agreement made with the IMF in May 1988 sets a target rate of inflation for the end of the year of 95 per cent . |
| 26 | It sets a target of 80 per cent of plastics and paper , and 90 per cent of glass , tin and aluminium , to be recycled by 1 July 1995 . |
| 27 | In the Lord Mayor 's speech in London in November 1985 Nigel Lawson formally abandoned M3 and since 1987 gave more emphasis to broad money or M4 ( which is M3 plus building society liabilities ) though not setting a target range . |
| 28 | Injuries to two MCC bowlers helped Richards and Gomes both make centuries , and Lloyd declared at 248 for 3 , setting a target of 303 . |
| 29 | ‘ Breakthrough 2000 ’ warmed my heart because I think : here is vision , here is faith , and here are people who are setting a target and they are wanting to move towards it . ’ |
| 30 | Instead of one side doing all their batting in one go and setting a target for the other side to beat , baseball 's innings are broken up into bits , with each side batting in turn until nine innings have been completed . |