Example sentences of "[modal v] achieve [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Ian Oswald once remarked , we know very little about the function of everyday , waking consciousness , so perhaps it is over-optimistic to believe that we should achieve a complete understanding of sleeping consciousness merely because we have reliable physiological indices of when dreams are likely to occur . |
| 2 | Note that Newco should achieve a full market value base cost in the shares it acquires in Target . |
| 3 | I have argued that it is the teachers ' task to mediate through everyday pedagogic activity : it is their exercise of pragmatism which should achieve the double objective of learning outcome and professional development . |
| 4 | The production should achieve an improved balance between pit and stage during its three-night run , but one wonders if three consecutive nights might not overtax a few vocal chords by Sunday morning . |
| 5 | The farming industry is passing through a period of profound change ; most farmers recognise that the industry must achieve a better balance with the market and the environment . |
| 6 | If we are to adopt a single currency , we must achieve the theoretical advantages which are there to be grasped . |
| 7 | I do no man any harm and perhaps may achieve a great good . |
| 8 | If however support is evenly spread throughout a country or province but is insufficient in any one constituency to reach this threshold , a party may achieve a small but respectable proportion of votes over all constituencies without securing a seat . |
| 9 | For example , the son who is chosen by his family to go and earn money in a town and city may achieve a certain status in the joint family — he has been chosen , after all , for his abilities and strength of mind — but he has to suffer months , even years , of separation from his wife and loss of all contact with those who love him . |
| 10 | Thus a learner may achieve a high accuracy profile in one context , which might suggest acquisition of certain forms , but perform badly on the same forms in a different context . |
| 11 | Being married to even a would-be politician involves many sacrifices which may achieve no more than being landed with a morose husband ( or wife ) hanging round the house for the next four or five years . |
| 12 | The exception might be the synthesis of information which may achieve the same aim as analysis . |
| 13 | Thus the only way by which the government might achieve a higher level of output would be by cheating , by not following the rule it says it will follow . |
| 14 | He makes the reasonable point that the upholders of traditional positions might achieve a new plausibility if they could be seen actually arguing for them , rather than merely asserting them . |
| 15 | The Macmillan era had aroused hopes in leftist hearts that we might achieve a mixed economy that made sense ; but the murkiness of political scandal and the absurdities of needless party discord rendered Mr Macmillan 's last months unhappy and confused . |
| 16 | It also states that while Labour might achieve a modest reduction in unemployment through its job training schemes , it would be at the expense of higher inflation and a weaker current account , and would still leave unemployment stuck at just under three million for two years . |
| 17 | We might achieve the second task by altering our account of defeasibility so that instead of talking about some one other truth ( which caused the problem of piecemeal addition ) we talk about all truths whatever . |
| 18 | A pity : I should have been delighted if the two writers , Johnson and Thomson , could achieve a time-machine meeting over the vandalising of Elgin Cathedral . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , Nivelle resolved to attack , certain that he could achieve a decisive breakthrough . |
| 20 | The programme suggests that these could achieve a 5 per cent share of total vehicle fuel consumption , through the production of 11 million tonnes of fuel per annum from the seven million hectares of land taken out of food crop production under the EC 's agriculture policy . |
| 21 | Easthope acknowledges that the pentameter line had qualities which made it more resourceful than the older accentual metre , since one could achieve a great range of poetic effects by counterpointing intonation against metre , which is what nearly all the major English poets have done , though supposedly imprisoned in this bourgeois strait-jacket . |
| 22 | Thus empowered , they could achieve a great deal , particularly in the areas of curriculum development and staff support . |
| 23 | ‘ I think it could achieve a great deal , ’ replied Julius . |
| 24 | 1 became convinced that with better management and a number of policy changes we could achieve a better service for the patient . |
| 25 | One result was that Germany and Italy lost out because neither could achieve a strong centralised government . |
| 26 | The information was also required to ascertain what assessment materials could be included at different levels of a graduated test scheme so that pupils taking each level could achieve a high degree of success . |
| 27 | We conclude that epinephrine could achieve a high initial haemostatic rate . |
| 28 | Where there is a likelihood that the purchaser could achieve the best return by putting the company into liquidation , and would in practice be able to carry this out , then the assets basis valuation using break-up values should be applied . |
| 29 | He even goes so far , as to claim that ‘ notionally , in the short term you could achieve the necessary revenue only with the IBM customers … |
| 30 | Secondly , even if man could achieve the impossible and live a perfect life , fulfilling the divine requirements in all particulars , a doctrine of merit would remain unacceptable to the God of the Bible . |