Example sentences of "[modal v] achieve [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is essential for the continued academic development of the University , even though its projected expansion in student numbers terms is relatively modest , that the University should achieve that objective . |
| 2 | It was a curious irony that the insidious dangers of civil nuclear power should achieve such prominence just as the superpowers were moving towards agreement on cutting their armouries and reducing the threat of nuclear war caused by suspicion or accident . |
| 3 | Production from the Helm , Helder and Hoorn fields should achieve some 25,000 barrels per day ( 1.2 million tonnes ) . |
| 4 | Specially , appointment to the bench should achieve some overall balance as between the nominees of the main political parties in the area . |
| 5 | Meeting our business objectives , improving services and integrating the local office network are all important to the success of ES ; but we must achieve these aims within the resources that are made available to us by government . |
| 6 | Yet the western demo- cracies held to their policy that there could be no intervention in Spanish internal affairs and that if the Spanish people wanted to be rid of Franco , they must achieve this by their own efforts alone . |
| 7 | JET is very near to this and its present programme may achieve this . |
| 8 | Although a few may achieve this goal , better racing would result if fewer ‘ classes ’ were created and there was stronger support for just one or two of the better examples . |
| 9 | Armed with some or , very rarely , all of the above resources , presidents may achieve some degree of mastery over the American political system . |
| 10 | ( 1991 ) have analysed various industrial policy measures that may achieve these ends , including direct and indirect subsidies to producers as well as standard protectionist measures such as tariffs , quotas , and non-tariff barriers . |
| 11 | Using Dement 's analogy , rather than taking their sleep in one meal , subjects may achieve enough to keep going by snatching " snacks " . |
| 12 | However , local communities might achieve some of the simpler things like filling in small pools and keeping the edges of streams ditches and irrigation canals clear of vegetation as part of the ‘ self-help ’ aspect of any health education programme . |
| 13 | Yet it is not too hard to imagine how a computer parsing program might achieve some such effect : if we ask an English speaker how he does it , we may well get some reply like ‘ Well , I 'm simply looking for a sense of the word related to drinking , are n't I ? ’ |
| 14 | It completely failed to influence public opinion when it emerged from its secret society chrysalis in 1939 , and in spite of its extremism and the uncertainties of the law with regard to seditious libel where public order was not threatened , the authorities decided that any move against the group would give it unwanted publicity and might achieve more harm than good . |
| 15 | Marx himself did , however , leave some basic clues as to how we might achieve this kind of understanding of the state . |
| 16 | You 'll achieve much more by using this effective eating plan and intensive stretching and aerobics programme that will soon become a way of life . |
| 17 | Most of the scriptures we 'll be looking at today is very familiar with us we know them and some of them we may be able to recite without even looking at the words , but er , if we can try and get you to think a little bit about them , then we 've achieved something , if we can get you to think that , you know , well am I dozing or am I really awake as I should be , then we 'll achieve more , in verse eleven it speaks there about er , you people knowing the season , well what people are we talking about ? |
| 18 | And there was no need for a revolution because they 'd achieve those fourteen massive achievements . |
| 19 | The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury . |
| 20 | It would be great if we could achieve that level of non-smoking among school and college students . |
| 21 | Financial and administrative constraints permitting , the proposed more open and formal systems of careers guidance , support , and appraisal could achieve much especially if , as proposed , they were reinforced by explicit fairness in appointments procedures from preregistration level upwards and monitored for ethnic and gender neutrality under the auspices of the NHS Management Executive . |
| 22 | When introducing the notion of mental holism earlier , I said that thoughts must have reference and I implied that only holistic systems could achieve this reference . |
| 23 | They could achieve this by : • Developing a Christmas programme . |
| 24 | With electrification I could achieve this goal . |
| 25 | Lymphocytes that enter the site could achieve this by competing with the invader , thereby lowering the level of nutrients and raising the level of the products of metabolism locally , for example making the environment more acid . |
| 26 | The prospect for Korea regaining independence lay in the defeat of Japan : only two powers could achieve this , the United States and the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | There was a commitment to the maintenance of full employment , with the Keynesian doctrine that budgetary management could achieve this now a matter of economic orthodoxy . |
| 28 | He could achieve this by either of two techniques . |
| 29 | Advocates of option one say it could achieve this . |
| 30 | We could achieve this compromise in a Solomonic way . |