Example sentences of "[vb past] achieve a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALTHOUGH the Hungarian restaurants in which I ate did achieve a far higher standard than anything I encountered in Prague , almost all had in common a poor sense of presentation and good ingredients were often spoiled by ignorance and negligence . |
| 2 | However , it did achieve a top speed of 126mph , and cruised at 96mph with a weight of 22,000lb at 2,050ft altitude . |
| 3 | And when I daydream of its beauty I think , too , of the people I met on Koraloona , of Doc Reid , the eccentric , wayward medic who first taught me about the island ; Bill Robins , the captain of the Mantela when our ship was attacked , and who before that was to become my first real friend ; Jason Purvis , the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame ; Paula Reece , the beautiful American with cold , appraising eyes who so loved the island — and several of its free and happy inhabitants . |
| 4 | did achieve an apparent dissociation of associative interference and latent inhibition . |
| 5 | Erm , as I said F T volumes are flat but er , they , they , they did achieve an increase in the yield erm , but forward bookings are much better at the F T and October looks rather better , so I think advertisement volumes are , are on the increase . |