Example sentences of "we [verb] to achieve " in BNC.

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1 We failed to achieve initial haemostasis in one patient ( 3% ) of the epinephrine group , and none of the epinephrine plus pure alcohol group ( p>0.05 ) .
2 Er , yes , well , I 'd , I 'd , er , I 'd like to make two proposals , first of all that we formally congratulate our officers for leading the team that er , put together this successful bid , erm , but I 'd also like to say something about these concerns about the boundaries because it 's Oswestry again , amongst mainly the sort of north of the county around Oswestry , which like with the rural development area , could be left out , and , of course , economic development does n't stop at a parish boundary people cross it , it 's part of their economic activity and erm , I know that some of the sort of proposed projects put together for the use of this five B money , er , around the Oswestry area , are extremely desirable projects , er , and are achievable projects , and it would be a tragedy if er , if they were , if , if we failed to achieve them because of er , a kind of a bureaucratic dotted line which say you ca n't have the money because you 're the wrong side of the line .
3 In America they ask : ‘ What do we want to achieve ? ’ and then : ‘ How do we achieve it ? ’
4 What do we want to achieve ?
5 And so we 'll say , well that 's what we planned to achieve , this is what we actually achieved .
6 When do we need to achieve balance and harmony within ourselves ?
7 We expect to achieve 20 mpg and possibly even 25 mpg , ’ says automotive manager Peter Harris .
8 Harnessing our financial resources remains a major priority for us and despite another major capital expenditure programme , we expect to achieve a more balanced position from trading in the current year .
9 But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed .
10 What we want to achieve is you losing weight and feeling healthier and having greater awareness of your body .
11 And on the building society side , that 's your instant access fund , y anything you need in the meantime , if we 've said that we want to achieve eight hundred a month income , and that 's really the basic income , any holidays , any incidentals , come from this account .
12 That is what we want to achieve in the 1990s .
13 " Just as we used the tiger as a symbol to secure the protection of a huge diversity of habitats in India , so we want to achieve the same with the elephant in Africa " , Simon Lyster adds .
14 Said Mike ‘ We want to achieve real reductions in the environmental impact of our packaging .
15 The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that the commitment on income tax is a longer-term one and that we hope to achieve it as and when conditions permit and when it is prudent to do so .
16 It 's a lovely little example of what we hope to achieve throughout the town . ’
17 We seek to achieve this in three ways : by offering specialist advice and information on all aspects of the arts ; by initiating certain schemes , projects and promotions of our own ; and by subsidizing professional arts activity and arts organizations .
18 Can we expect to achieve sufficient political agreement to formulate the necessary dispute-resolving rules in an ideologically divided world , even if the avowed intention is to establish rules which are neutral as between such ideologies , the acceptance of which would not be taken as manifesting more than a commitment to getting some agreed rules ?
19 " What do we hope to achieve ? "
20 Over the next eight months , the deadline to achieve ISO 9000 was extremely important as we worked to achieve a QA system at both the procedure and instruction levels .
21 Carrying on from this morning 's thoughts about the occasional slip whilst following the programme , we should also realise that this will happen as we attempt to achieve our other goals in life .
22 After departure of the 1620 to Sheffield , and depending on the good will of the driver , we managed to achieve many foot plate rides down to Wharf Lane and back as the train had to reverse into the down bay .
23 ‘ For the past five years we have been working hard to turn the London International Book Fair into a major event in the publishing calendar , rather than just another exhibition , and I think this year we managed to achieve that aim , ’ reflected LIBF director Brian Bradford at the end of the 22nd fair .
24 ‘ That we try to achieve a friendlier environment ? ’
25 Responding to GAMTA 's request for more flexibility in applying the over-sixty regulations , Ron Ashford , Director of the CAA 's Safety Regulation Group ( SRG ) replied : ‘ What we aim to achieve by our regulatory controls is a public transport safety level .
26 Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no
27 By laser treatment and radiotherapy we aimed to achieve the benefits of both while minimising complications .
28 This has been a constant theme of Intifada policy : that we wish to build ( Palestine ) , not to destroy ( Israel ) ; that we wish to achieve freedom ( for our people ) , not to deprive others ( Israelis ) of it ; that we wish to protect and save lives ( ours ) , not to endanger the lives of others ( Israelis ) .
29 In our showroom we have examples of the standard of curtain-making we wish to achieve .
30 What is more disturbing if we wish to achieve a simple separation of grammar and semantics is that on occasions one and the same deviance may be cured either by adjustment of closed set items , or by the replacement of open set items .
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