Example sentences of "[modal v] achieve [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is a tribute to Masur and the players that a live performance — apparently taken from one concert and not edited from other sources , unless it was a previous rehearsal — should achieve a precision of ensemble to rival that of a studio performance .
2 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 .
3 Note that Newco should achieve a full market value base cost in the shares it acquires in Target .
4 Chemical Products should achieve a turnover of around £500 million this year .
5 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 .
6 Their first choice is not always available but the week should achieve the aim of broadening their horizons and their experience .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 The variety of subject search approaches and output formats should ultimately make this a valuable service — although to realize full potential it must achieve a more comprehensive coverage of publishers than at present .
10 In retirement we must achieve a state of calm , for we can not expect large segments of our lives to be filled with ecstasy .
11 The program designer takes charge of the production of the computer program for the unit which must achieve a presentation that allows the educational objectives to be reached .
12 A bureaucracy , on balance , promotes efficiency in larger organisations , but it must achieve a balance whereby rules are impersonal but not inhuman , the structure is organised but not rigid , and employees are loyal without being unthinking conformists .
13 Because : In order to be at one with the Static Cosmos , one must achieve a state of supreme stillness .
14 Either it must achieve the reductions it agreed to by using technological means to remove the sulphur from domestic coal , or , if it chooses to see low-sulphur coal being imported , or gas burned in power stations , it must endure reductions in emissions closer to those agreed by West Germany , the Netherlands , France , Belgium and Denmark . ’
15 If we are to adopt a single currency , we must achieve the theoretical advantages which are there to be grasped .
16 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 .
17 I do no man any harm and perhaps may achieve a great good .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 However , the merger may achieve a cost reduction and saving on scarce resources that more than offset this social cost .
21 He may achieve a little more animation this time if Party Politics wins him his place in history .
22 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 .
23 Nyerere , if he manages the full handover of not only governmental power but also party power , may achieve the distinction of dealing with two of the problems .
24 I have decided to step down to allow someone with a fresh approach to take charge in the hope that Irish rugby may achieve the success it needs . ’
25 Making a drug unavailable may achieve the objective of reducing risk associated with that individual drug but may increase risk due to alternative drugs or because of reduced efficacy of alternate treatments .
26 The exception might be the synthesis of information which may achieve the same aim as analysis .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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