Example sentences of "[not/n't] achieve [det] " in BNC.
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1 | If our staff are worried about problems at home or work they can not achieve that , ’ said , staff relations manager with Standard Life in Edinburgh , explaining the company 's decision to provide an Employee Assistance Programme ( EAP ) . |
2 | We did not achieve that , but the Regional Council has undertaken to carry the full costs itself . |
3 | Is it not simply because of this : that the government , because of their appalling mismanagement of our economy , have been forced to concede that they simply could not achieve that inflation target which they had set for themselves . |
4 | Everyone recognises that the banning of tobacco advertising does not achieve all those ends on its own — that it has to be part of wider strategy . |
5 | The prime minister did not achieve all his objectives , and he returned home to find that the new tide of anti-American criticism was still rising . |
6 | In general , end-folding does not achieve such good results , but this illustrates how — with a very small ‘ file ’ and key size — results can be variable . |
7 | The orally fixated individual however , like the primal hunter-gatherer , can not achieve such a self-mastery and must rely on his luck to feed whenever and wherever he may need to do so . |
8 | ‘ We will not achieve this without institutional changes . |
9 | We can not achieve this aim without the support of friends . |
10 | The Government 's proposed tax cut will not achieve this . |
11 | Where they could not achieve this they introduced the fish Gambusia affinis , which eats mosquito larvae , and applied petroleum oils and Paris Green ( copper acetoarsenite ) as poisons . |
12 | We have argued that for questions of value reason can not achieve this independence . |
13 | She would not achieve this position of prominence through conquest but through example and inspiration . |
14 | I realise that knitters with other makes of machine can not achieve this stitch , which , I suppose , is why one sees few patterns for it . |
15 | Pay increases alone could not achieve this without inflating the country 's wage bill to an unacceptable level . |
16 | They did not achieve this , but their future was closely to parallel that of the cotton hand-loom weavers in moving through boom to desperation . |
17 | Part of the Medau Society 's submission to the Sports Council was that we increase our membership numbers , and therefore our income — if we do not achieve this it will have repercussions on our grant . |
18 | To ease the new channel 's birth , the ITC has decided it need not achieve any more than 30 per cent coverage of the country in its first year . |
19 | The two subjects who slept little to start with did not achieve any such permanent reduction in sleep . |
20 | The most newsworthy and well-written release will not achieve any coverage if it is sent to the wrong outlet . |
21 | Yet these did not achieve any great scale , perhaps because of suspicions of their implications for state involvement in the economy . |
22 | Although he did not achieve any recognition from the United States that the USSR was an ‘ equal ’ power , he did secure an American guarantee not to invade Cuba , which has diminished the spectre of how the Soviet Union would respond to such an event . |
23 | But the confusing plethora of separate joint boards on the fire service , strategic planning , waste disposal and other matters which succeeded them suggests that abolition did not achieve those ends These boards are now under no direct electoral control , but are instead made up of nominees from often compulsorily participant councils . |
24 | Without the inclusion of creative activities , education does not achieve those objectives which those with rather narrow views claim for it , especially in terms of personal development . |
25 | And you ca n't achieve that through exercise . ’ |
26 | It 's very clear that if you wish to manage at a very high level or wish to influence people you wo n't achieve that wearing a sloppy sweater and jeans . |
27 | ‘ Success shows in your image and appearance and environment … if you wish to influence people you wo n't achieve that wearing a sloppy sweater and jeans . ’ |
28 | I bloody well ca n't achieve that by sticking them in dull concrete abortions ! |
29 | Without this diet , I could n't achieve all this . ’ |
30 | Then we 've done our work , I would say that my average of ten company representatives went over , perhaps two would find it was useful , useful fact finding mission , but it did n't achieve much , two would click instantly and have orders while they 're there , and the remainder would over the period of six or nine months later , if they worked at it , gain orders or perhaps , perhaps more importantly agents or distributors to sell their products for them in that country . |