Example sentences of "[adv] to achieve [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention is that students of elaborate structures in language should be able to construct them as well as receive and consume them , if only to achieve a better understanding of how poems are made . |
| 2 | In the Ptolemaic system , the orbits of the sun , Mercury and Venus have to be artificially linked together to achieve the required result . |
| 3 | They work together to achieve the overall objectives of the organization . |
| 4 | He said the two countries had agreed to intensify their joint efforts to ‘ re-energise the peace process ’ , to encourage the partners to return to the negotiations , and to work together to achieve an early resumption of the next round of talks . |
| 5 | The two chalk-drawn images , on either side of a Black(Bird)board , do n't rotate fast enough to achieve the required effect . |
| 6 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 7 | Mr Michael Jagger , the vocal stylist with the once-popular beat ensemble , The Rolling Stones , is soon to achieve the venerable rank of grandfather . |
| 8 | The solution is not to revert to Army control once again , but rather somehow to achieve a lasting political settlement that denies both insurgents and the paramilitary police their raison d'etre . |
| 9 | If we are ever to achieve a magnetically-confined plasma that is kept hot enough by thermonuclear reactions , then the confinement system must contain the electrically-charged alpha particles that are produced by the fusion of deuterium and tritium . |
| 10 | This time I worked in a watercolour sketchbook , deliberately to achieve the softening effect that the paper would have on the marker inks as they spread into it . |
| 11 | This is not only because of the need for a contractor to make money but also to achieve an acceptable cash flow and , ideally , to obtain more work from the same client in the future . |
| 12 | You may have to adjust the truss rod and shave or sand the bottom of the saddle slightly to achieve a reasonable action , especially if the guitar has been left in the heat for a period of time . |
| 13 | The reason for this difference is that businesses see themselves as having a pool of resources which can be used in any aspect of their business to achieve their overall objective , e.g. to achieve a satisfactory return on capital . |
| 14 | Regency stripe , classical motifs and rich wood have been used here to achieve a formal style that is also very natural . |
| 15 | Ash and biodegradable waste must be added regularly to achieve the right carbon nitrogen ratio . |
| 16 | It was not easy to avoid domestic politics but we tried hard to achieve a delicate balance . |
| 17 | Yet , although the leaders of both sides of industry worked hard to achieve a common agreement on policies to present to the government the talks , and the influence they exerted , began to wither away after a couple of years , and did not survive into the 1930s . |
| 18 | Apart from some initial instability of woodwind tuning , the orchestra , under its conductor John Forster , worked hard to achieve the necessary space in the opening and at the same time that important sense of continuity . |
| 19 | The current diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa reflect this evolutionary process but they have yet to achieve the final category . |
| 20 | The fish pictured are not fully mature and have yet to achieve the intense red colouring of the caudal and dorsal finnage . |
| 21 | In some music this strained atmosphere may be just what we want , but for the moment our objective is rather to achieve a smooth , natural-sounding discourse . |
| 22 | Stays would be tightened mercilessly to achieve the desired figure , and the image of women fainting because of over-tightened stays is a commonplace in the literature of the period . |