Example sentences of "what [vb mod] [be] achieved " in BNC.

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1 Constraints of finance , manpower and time all conspire to limit what may be achieved , and compromises are inevitable .
2 I agree that this scheme is significant not only because of what may be achieved for good in the north-west , but because it can act as a model for planning for other areas and for other denominations .
3 developing teachers ' skills in consultation and negotiation , on behalf of the pupil , with colleagues across departmental and managerial boundaries ; with parents as partners in their children 's learning ; and , where indicated , with members of other professions across institutional and professional boundaries ( cf DHSS guidelines 1988 , which , ironically , suggest more awareness of what may be achieved through the personal and social education aspects of the school curriculum than their DES counterparts with regard to the forthcoming national curriculum ) .
4 But to these targets needs to be added an analysis of what must be achieved in order to obtain them , in terms of both the behaviour and attitude of consumers : and of more functional matters such as ( for example ) greatly improved distribution — to put it in what is , from the agency 's point of view , the most defensive way possible , it is too easy to blame the advertising when the sales force has failed to achieve the necessary levels of retail distribution to support the required sales .
5 How , when she was where she was , and he was where he was , was she going to achieve what must be achieved ?
6 This allows a planned office system to be perceived in terms of these functions , and to specify clearly what should be achieved by implementing any new system .
7 The answers , listed in Fig 1 , adequately summarise what should be achieved in managing patients with skin and soft tissue wounds .
8 The medical qualifications which at first gave him distinction tended later to restrict his outlook on what might be achieved in the field of occupational health .
9 The quota , in short , forced some British filmmakers to be realistic about the economic constraints operating in British filmmaking , and to look to what could be achieved within them rather than simply hoping that film budgets could rise on some magic carpet to figures close to those of Hollywood pictures .
10 It showed what could be achieved when the Treasury and the DHSS worked together .
11 The letters between Miller and Bartram show what could be achieved by patience and forbearance two hundred years ago .
12 But in practical terms of what could be achieved in the time-scales envisaged , with new contracts due to be signed between the privatized generating and distribution companies by the end of 1989 , nuclear power was the only option for large chunks of capacity .
13 This chapter examines a study , where , at the outset , the analysts were not entirely clear what could be achieved by using soft systems analysis , but felt it would provide an overview of the situation , enabling ideas to be formulated about new relationships that would arise from a fundamental change in role .
14 Thanks to her acquired confidence in what could be achieved in the hypnotic state , Sylvia readily agreed .
15 This paper 's remarkable success in increasing sales between 1965 and 1969 not only showed what could be achieved by a powerful sales campaign ( which also brought in advertising at higher rates ) but also indicated that new purchasers of newspapers were not attracted to the party press , whose sales remained relatively stagnant .
16 There had been pressure from the Tourist Board and Turkish TV crews to start the rafting trip from a particularly scenic and dramatic place and the guides misjudged what could be achieved with a novice crew .
17 David decided to test out the conditions — his ten years of experience showed us what could be achieved with practice .
18 Even this product of genius was flawed as it trailed away into melodrama but for a fleeting moment Hollywood was shown what could be achieved if its resources were used as the basis for a director 's cinema .
19 In this respect Ferguson thought that the Warner Bros film was a good indication of what could be achieved by Hollywood when it tackled social problems honestly and he summed it up by returning to one of his favourite points about Hollywood that ‘ even half a loaf on the national stomach is at least nourishment taken in ’ .
20 For example , Williams calculated the cost per QALY of a range of health care interventions and divided them into ‘ strong candidates for expansion ’ and ‘ less strong candidates for expansion ’ 1 to illustrate what could be achieved by using available data and to argue for further refinements .
21 ‘ The future potential is enormous and the work to date is only a fraction of what could be achieved .
22 He contrasted their lot with what could be achieved by senior people who had the benefit of Share Option Schemes .
23 Name had reached a ceiling on what could be achieved under present arrangements ;
24 Commenting on the changes , a BR spokeswoman said : ‘ Darlington was a forerunner of similar schemes throughout the country and showed what could be achieved when local authorities got together with British Rail . ’
25 You can compel them to go to the polling station and even to put an official election slip into the ballot box but that slip could be blank or spoiled , so what would be achieved ?
26 We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone .
27 I take it that you 're not disputing then that the change in the traffic flows that I 've indicated would actually what would be achieved ?
28 Although marketing managers constantly ask what will be achieved , ‘ alternative ’ corporate hospitality days prove very popular .
29 It is surprising what can be achieved in an old and complex building to provide for disabled people and also how much the internal and external architecture can benefit from the refurbishment that the opportunities of converting a building for disabled access can provide .
30 But if attempts to produce this concrete research are doomed to neglect or derision or to be defined as ‘ espionage ’ , then what can be achieved ?
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