Example sentences of "set target [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher recognised the gravity of the situation and helped focus world attention on the subject , but , with US and Japan , undermined moves to set targets for reduction of carbon dioxide emissions , and failed to adopt energy efficiency policies . |
| 2 | Within six months , every local education authority will have to set targets for steadily increasing nursery and childcare services . |
| 3 | From then on the figures used in the White Paper to set targets for future spending were set in ‘ cash terms ’ . |
| 4 | He further argues that with multiple measures there is a danger of losing focus , and that it is difficult to set targets for some indicators because there are no historical data on them . |
| 5 | using this understanding to critically examine current activities and go on to set targets for the future . |
| 6 | The first would be used to set targets for improved river quality based on six " use " classes ; fisheries ecosystem , abstraction for drinking supply , abstracting for agricultural and industrial use , water sports , commercial farming of fish and shellfish , and special ecosystem ( i.e. specific areas for the purposes of nature conservation ) . |
| 7 | Our Health Initiative will set targets for better health , backed by effective action . |
| 8 | Self-assessment is a key feature of the module and students should set targets for themselves based on their initial self-assessment . |
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| 10 | ‘ You ca n't set targets with injuries , and I 'm not going to start trying now . |
| 11 | In addition , before implementing a project the company should set targets against which the project can be assessed . |
| 12 | The report demands that the Government adopt value for money as its criteria , set targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions , and assess environmental taxation schemes . |
| 13 | Set targets for the reduction of inequalities in health . |
| 14 | Set targets for cutting pollution . |
| 15 | Its two-stroke engine , the materials and structures used in its 635kg construction and its safety systems set targets for engineers and designers alike . |
| 16 | Situations occur where trade union negotiators set targets for achievement of these goals which appear to be at odds with the targets set by management for the organisation ( and its employees ) . |
| 17 | How should the organisation identify its objectives and set targets for achievement ? |
| 18 | Thus despite the fact that the Thatcher government in the early 1980s was committed to a tight control of money supply and set targets for the broad monetary base M0 , and despite the fact that the authorities have expressed interest in monetary base control , this has not been the form of policy pursued . |
| 19 | In Spain , RENFE has been set targets under the various modernization plans and international credit agreements to eliminate its operating deficit , and subsequently cover its depreciation costs and interest charges . |
| 20 | The Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) Education and Enterprise Initiative has set targets for ten per cent of teachers each year to be seconded to industry and for all school leavers to spend at least two weeks on Work Experience . |
| 21 | Apart from those recommendations relating to fiscal measures , which are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer , we have set targets for action on every one of the recommendations — and we shall report again on progress in six months . |
| 22 | This identifies what aspects of lexicographer are to be measured , and sets targets for service levels based on the System Requirements document |
| 23 | For 1993–94 the Agreement sets targets for promptness and accuracy of benefit payment and delivery of advisory interviews . |
| 24 | It is indeed deplorable that the Government sets targets for a reduction in smoking but continues to place the responsibility for achieving these on health , education and voluntary sector while avoiding taking the action we consider essential . |
| 25 | DHAs can then concentrate on ensuring that the health needs of the population for which they are responsible are met ; that there are effective services for the prevention and control of disease and the promotion of health ; that their population has access to a comprehensive range of high quality , value for money services ; and on setting targets for and monitoring the performance of those management units for which they continue to have responsibility . |
| 26 | So it is that for Douglas MacBain it is a clearly defined aim to consider setting targets for numbers of churches to be planted in the coming decade and to work to facilitate this . |
| 27 | Borrowing an idea from the editors of the Annals of Internal Medicine , we have , in addition to setting targets for decision making and publication , developed what we call the ‘ vital signs ’ of the BMJ . |
| 28 | This discipline is missing from the Williamson scheme ; inflation has to be controlled by setting targets for money-GDP instead . |
| 29 | The Plan worked by setting targets for certain key sectors of the economy ( such as steel , electricity and cement ) rather than by close state direction , it tended to foster the return to industrial predominance of capitalist businessmen , and it relied on loans from abroad , particularly from America . |
| 30 | Setting targets for yourself works . |