Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] achieve " in BNC.
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| 1 | are the relatively simple techniques relating to the facts about costs and outputs — numbers of staff , numbers of applications dealt with capable of being developed to deal with far more complex questions about outcomes : what did this activity actually achieve , in terms of modernizing British industry … improving the nation 's health , or educating it for the 21st century ? |
| 2 | Opinion surveys suggested that this factor , together with the country 's recent economic malaise ( including a slowing rate of growth and sharply rising prices and rents — see pp. 37375-76 ) , resulted in the popularity of the government falling to around 12 per cent , the lowest rating ever achieved by Roh . |
| 3 | TERCOM gives the nearest thing to perfect accuracy yet achieved . |
| 4 | Trained in the hard school of the Labour movement to win legitimacy for their political aspirations toward higher living standards and greater popular participation , he also had a realistic appreciation of the benefits of the economic organisation already achieved by capitalism . |
| 5 | This struggle , and the Greek unity half achieved in the course of it , must have been in the programmatist 's mind ; but the project was paid for out of spoils from the conquest of one Greek city by another , and the golden shield proudly crowning the newly finished temple was set there to celebrate an early clash in the fatal hostility of Athens and Sparta which was to culminate in the Peloponnesian war and the ruin of Greece . |
| 6 | ‘ To promote closer union ’ means that it is , in the Council 's judgement , an acceptable means towards fuller unity in some circumstances , and not only to be seen as an expression of full unity already achieved . |
| 7 | When BA and BCal merged in 1987 , she was determined to become a Concorde pilot and despite stiff opposition finally achieved her goal yesterday . |
| 8 | The few communications which do receive full attention normally achieve this through a combination of chance , inside information and relentless harrassment . |
| 9 | C&P 's Occupational Health Department — 100 strong and spread over five locations — recently became the first medical service anywhere to achieve quality assurance registration . |
| 10 | Exaggerating a physical movement often achieves the position that is being sought . |
| 11 | Anthony King , in his seminal article on overload , published in 1975 , commented on ‘ the increasing difficulty that both major political parties seem to have in carrying out their election manifestos ’ and cast his mind back thirty years to find the standard from which subsequent administrations had fallen : ‘ The fit between what the Labour Party said it would do in 1945 and what the Labour Government actually achieved between 1945 and 1951 is astonishingly close . |
| 12 | As he puts it , with a certain dispassionate irony , in a letter of early 1870 : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 13 | That last , familiar , word was used by Nietzsche himself precisely in this context and at this time : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 14 | In our experience , one 's first kite eventually achieves a certain immortality . |
| 15 | In Edinburgh , the Scandic Crown regularly achieves the highest occupancy in the city with outstanding rival hotels . |
| 16 | That road became known as the Great West Road — the first section later achieved the name of the ‘ Golden Mile'-which was formally opened by King George V ( wearing a bowler hat ) in 1925 ; a year when the Oxford boat sank in the April University Boat Race . |
| 17 | They arrived together , dressed with the studied perfection only achieved by gangsters and people about to appear on television . |
| 18 | Although the American team eventually achieved good control , various circumstances curtailed the project and they did not succeed in eradicating the anophelines . |
| 19 | Pleased with the celestial harmony thus achieved , Cornelius and Tuppe set out in earnest to locate Lot 1OO . |
| 20 | It is certainly true that one strand at least in a Northumbrian view of the past seems to have thought of Nechtanesmere as destroying the position of military dominance originally achieved by Eadwine in the first half of the seventh century ( HE II , 5 ) , whereas Eadwine 's ascendancy over the Britons in Wales had disappeared by the mid-630s and an overlordship of the southern English kingdoms , restored only temporarily in the late 650s , was lost long before 685 ( see above , p. 85 ) . |
| 21 | By reporting only two columns of figures ( budget and actual ) , not only is the ultimate purpose of budgetary accounting not achieved but much time can be wasted in answering specific users ' questions about variances which could have been avoided by the accounts themselves producing the relevant analysis . |
| 22 | How right my hon. Friend is to point out that our rate of inflation is less than half the best rate ever achieved by the 1974-79 Labour and Labour-Liberal Administration . |
| 23 | For couples finding full sexual orgasm or satisfying sex hard to achieve , loving physical closeness and touching are also important . |
| 24 | The clear view gives an impression of speed and excitement at what could be the fastest time ever achieved for a human powered vehicle . |
| 25 | The Labour Party subsequently achieved some measure of socialism under Attlee , despite the hostility of capitalism , and the Labour Party was well informed about the real strength of the fascist challenge . |
| 26 | Question : What 's the most complex and challenging intellectual feat ever achieved by human beings and who did it ? |