Example sentences of "[adv] fail to achieve " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can hardly ever have been a piece of legislation that has so utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives . |
| 2 | His restless mind had returned to the unfinished business of Benghazi and the possibility of destroying shipping which he had so far signally failed to achieve . |
| 3 | The general pattern seems to be , however , that ‘ second wave ’ change has achieved its first objective — the implementation of new structures — but has largely failed to achieve the ‘ cultural ’ sea-change : the involvement of clinicians and a new approach to consumers . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , despite the above positive features of assessment and certification , there may be some well-motivated and diligent pupils who still fail to achieve all the learning outcomes . |
| 5 | Smaller wage rises would make it possible to have lower inflation at a higher level of output — a combination that clever manipulations of macroeconomic policy ( interest rates , exchange rates and budget deficits ) have always failed to achieve . |
| 6 | I presume that the hon. Gentleman thought it right to return to the matter in the House having notably failed to achieve the result for which he hoped by an overheated press release to the same effect which he issued at the end of last week . |
| 7 | A crude or facile narrative technique will inevitably fail to achieve the desired ideological objective . |
| 8 | It seeks to reduce the numbers of people to whom Education Advisers relate in the area staff , gives Coordinators and their area secretaries the responsibility of organising programmes within their own Regions and finally , achieves the sort of balance between Regions and Overseas Groups we have sought and so far failed to achieve . |
| 9 | In the present state of research it is probably fair to suggest that although influence did have a powerful impact on the outcome of a number of elections , on the whole the electorate was not particularly easy to control , and that members of the political elite , despite all their efforts , often failed to achieve their ends . |
| 10 | any new constitutional arrangement must provide what the 1920 Government of Ireland Act tragically failed to achieve : tough guarantees of basic rights for the minority as well as for the majority community , together with accessible and representative institutions to enforce them . |
| 11 | Furthermore , legislation frequently fails to achieve its objectives and it may have unintended consequences . |
| 12 | On Oct. 10 , the House of Representatives narrowly failed to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to override Bush 's veto of a bill which would have limited imports of textiles , clothing and shoes . |
| 13 | All of these studies emphasised the same , fundamental point : that rehabilitation had led to the sacrifice of justice in favour of an alternative goal that it had manifestly failed to achieve . |
| 14 | It will be apparent that the surveyor could be negligent , overworked , dishonest or incompetent , and therefore fail to achieve accurate measurement . |