Example sentences of "[modal v] only [be] achieved " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Hoby was also a martinet and believed that learning could only be achieved through hard work and discipline . |
| 2 | Keeping fit could only be achieved by exercising in the early morning , when the temperature was tolerable , and tempers not too frayed . |
| 3 | Indeed as we have seen economic equality in society could only be achieved under two kinds of circumstances — one through the use of coercion in which case it is incompatible with freedom and the other in a situation in which people do not respond or even care about material rewards . |
| 4 | We demanded proof of intent , and that could only be achieved through living a separatist lifestyle . |
| 5 | This earthly world was depleted of all powers at the end of creation time history ; after that time the community could only be achieved and continuously recreated through individuals carefully taking , with the help of the ruwatu , limited amounts of transformational forces to do so from the gods . |
| 6 | This could only be achieved if foreigners could rely upon the stability of the rouble , which made it essential to maintain a favourable balance of payments and avoid a budget deficit . |
| 7 | In the latter case , only a decade later , the world had changed , inflation was being controlled and growth had slowed , so that recovery from the overexpansion could only be achieved by retrenchment . |
| 8 | There seemed only one way for the Druids to prevent their imminent destruction , and that was to ensure that the army never came within reach of them ; this could only be achieved either by strong enough resistance in the mountains of north-west Wales or by a serious insurrection deep within the Province . |
| 9 | Harfleur had taught him a lesson : he must be properly prepared for siege warfare , all the more so since he now planned a conquest which could only be achieved through sieges and the show of effective military might . |
| 10 | Their return to Japan in 1873 saw the implementation of a strategy based on a realization that a repeal of the ‘ unequal ’ treaties could only be achieved by trying to bring Japan up to Western standards in the things Westerners considered important — legal system , political structure , economic legislation and a general level of ‘ culture ’ and ‘ civilization ’ . |
| 11 | Whether annexation was a long-term aim in Japan is debatable ; what is clear is that Japanese believed that their nation 's security necessitated a hold on power in Korea of a kind which could only be achieved by colonial status . |
| 12 | A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests , and this was politically unacceptable . |
| 13 | The first , Phan Boi Chau , believed that the French had to be removed — and that this could only be achieved through armed struggle . |
| 14 | Again this could only be achieved by teamwork , the medical component as important as all the others . |
| 15 | The room was sparse and tidy , as fresh-looking and tasteful as the rest of the apartment , and like the rest of the place it told her nothing about Carson — except , perhaps , that he employed somebody to clean up for him , because it had the impersonal neatness which could only be achieved by an outsider . |
| 16 | Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V-C said that this could only be achieved by an oral examination of the witnesses . |
| 17 | Gaining an overview of that risk was very costly and could only be achieved by ordering credit reports , of whatever format , on a case-by-case basis . |
| 18 | The effect is somewhat idealistic and could only be achieved where motivation and performance were at a very low level to begin with . |
| 19 | This could only be achieved through the support of the chairperson and headteacher . |
| 20 | A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests , and this was politically unacceptable . |
| 21 | He also made it clear that in his view a lasting political settlement could only be achieved when the Algerian people made their wishes known through the ballot box . |
| 22 | It began to accelerate in February 1965 , when de Gaulle stated publicly that a definitive resolution of the German problem could only be achieved through an understanding of all Europeans , west and east . |
| 23 | The " Coalition for Vehicle Choice " argues that this could only be achieved by the production of smaller and lighter cars , which it claims can be less safe in crashes than bigger ones . |
| 24 | One of the most valuable lessons the Party had learnt during the initial twenty years of land reform was that socialism could only be achieved through stages . |
| 25 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 26 | The law was welcomed by leading Soviet journalists , but it was widely assessed that true press freedom would only be achieved when state control of paper production and of distribution and ownership of print works was ended . |
| 27 | She turns the Government 's self-help approach around by arguing that urban recovery will only be achieved by empowering the people who live in cities . |
| 28 | The National Curriculum may introduce a greater degree of consistency in respect of subject content , but quality in the way such content is treated will only be achieved if the anomalies at the various levels — LEA support , school curriculum management and development , classroom provision — are attended to . |
| 29 | Therefore , while defensive measures must not be abandoned for the foreseeable future , we firmly believe sustainability will only be achieved by injecting an environmental imperative into the developmental process . |
| 30 | This will only be achieved if the approver 's Name/Password are valid and if that user is not already logged into LIFESPAN ( either interactively , or via PI or PMR ) . |