Example sentences of "[vb -s] achieve " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has sensibly not escaped the British heavyweight champion ; so for all the understandable excitement felt when knocking out Tyrell Biggs in the seventh round , by far the most important of 32 consecutive victories he has achieved since turning professional in 1984 , he was not reluctant to focus on the flaws . |
| 2 | At last it has achieved a respectable measure of unity at most levels of the party . |
| 3 | Ripe time Assuming Mr Lawson has achieved a respectable fall in inflation , the time then really would be ‘ ripe ’ for full membership of the European Monetary System , since this would tend to drive interest rates down while holding up the pound . |
| 4 | The man who has achieved that — and has record profits of $4.8bn in 1988 to prove it — is the GM chairman Roger Smith , hardly a charismatic revolutionary , but rather the quintessential GM company man down to his sober suits and clean-cut features . |
| 5 | Mr Vargas has achieved his lead despite the offence caused to some of the crustier elements of his right-wing allies , the Popular Alliance and the Popular Christian Party by a television advertisement that presented a monkey dressed as a state bureaucrat . |
| 6 | Increasingly referred to by its citizens as ‘ the Zone ’ , as it had been when it was merely the Soviet occupation zone , it has achieved no genuine separate identity or legitimacy . |
| 7 | Surtax , profits tax , fuel tax — none of them , not even Schedule A of the income tax , has achieved the independent existence and power of survival which belongs to an institution . |
| 8 | The verdict of one admiring authority on the government 's performance is that , ‘ In doing so , it has achieved the largest transfer of property since the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII , a transfer from the state to its citizens . ’ |
| 9 | On this test , Thatcherism has achieved a partial success . |
| 10 | The plan amounts to substantial price cuts , aimed at Ford 's Fiesta , which has achieved record sales in Italy . |
| 11 | Mercedes has achieved sports-car adhesion with a comfort many luxury saloon makers would envy . |
| 12 | The 205's chassis has achieved almost legendary status . |
| 13 | Indeed , the little Peugeot has achieved something close to cult status , a point highlighted by the eye-catching TV commercial for the XS . |
| 14 | At the end of the first day 5 Airborne Brigade has achieved its objectives . |
| 15 | Yet the team of four businessmen which owns and operated Balbirnie House has achieved an average occupancy rate of 50%–60% ever since opening . |
| 16 | The text has achieved great influence , disseminated widely among senior officers , and taught formally at the Bramshill Police College . |
| 17 | Time does n't define what feminism is supposed to be , yet claims to find a schism between the older generations of women who started the fight for economic , political and social equality and today 's generations who seem complacent or angry about what women 's liberation has achieved . |
| 18 | The employee top 10 features those companies which are expanding fastest , and it says something for the performance of WPP that it has managed to perform well in eps and return on capital terms at the same time as it has achieved that expansion . |
| 19 | The Irish economy has achieved an impressive hat-trick in recent years : strong growth ( real GDP grew by an average of 5% in 1989 and 1990 ) ; low inflation ( now less than 3% ) ; and a current-account surplus . |
| 20 | He has achieved little since November besides getting to know the gadgets in the presidential motor cars . |
| 21 | Privatization has achieved better ways of running the transport industries and there is today no serious movement in any of them to return to state control . |
| 22 | Human life has achieved such a high density of population , however , and has such domination , that the structure of our environment is in danger of breaking down under the relentless punishment we are giving our habitat . |
| 23 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |
| 24 | Now numbering 70 ewes — all PI — the flock has achieved wide showing success and gained a reputation , especially in the midlands and south , for the quality of its rams . |
| 25 | Nissan , having launched two attractive new models in the Primera , which replaces the Bluebird , and the new Sunny ( now called Pulsar ) , and having established a highly productive and effective factory in the north-east to make them , now seems to be attempting to undo all it has achieved by going to war with the key to successful sales , the dealer network . |
| 26 | Connie 's garden has achieved considerable fame in recent years and has appeared in a number of books . |
| 27 | Therefore after six months the dieter is behaving according to all twenty-six goals and she has achieved a considerable reduction in sugar intake . |
| 28 | There are no votes in plans to pension off the Queen , and the House of Windsor has achieved a stability which would have surprised some previous royal households . |
| 29 | She is in no mood to lose all she has achieved since winning that first TV role in The Sullivans , nine years ago . |
| 30 | What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years . |