Example sentences of "never [verb] to achieve " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some targets which we never expect to achieve but as we move towards them they give us a sense of direction . |
| 2 | The key here is that Major may be about to achieve in government what Thatcher never did — indeed , she never tried to achieve it . |
| 3 | Hamm seemed to be a favourite target ; although our numbers were small in these raids we never seemed to achieve any worthwhile concentration . |
| 4 | You can never hope to achieve the professionalism of those who have been in a single business all their lives and hence you need quickly to get to know those whose opinions you can trust . |
| 5 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 6 | Like Kandinsky 's jazz-inspired paintings , the animation is infused with energy , yet with a vibrancy he could never hope to achieve with still painting . |
| 7 | In an upwards market this would benefit the landlord , who could never hope to achieve a full market rent pursuant to an interim rent application , but would disadvantage the tenant , who would presumably prefer the old rent to continue during negotiations , thereby acting as a negotiating factor . |
| 8 | It 's what you were born for — to make men 's heads turn and women 's eyes grow green with envy for all that you have that they can never hope to achieve . ’ |
| 9 | She showed a profound deference to the beauty she described , never searching for meaning or metaphor in the landscape , never striving to achieve what Keats would later call the ‘ wordsworthian or egotistical sublime ’ . |
| 10 | Mr and Mrs Jones would like Olwyn in bed by 8pm but they have never managed to achieve this and have given up trying because , when they did try , Olwyn flew in a violent temper and then ran away . |
| 11 | They have argued that Elizabeth 's church contained a variety of acceptable doctrinal positions , that predestinarianism never managed to achieve the dominance accorded it by Tyacke , and that at no time during the sixty-five years between 1560 and 1625 was the idea that good works could be an aid to salvation anything other than a perfectly orthodox belief . |
| 12 | Er no , Beveridge did , but he never intended to achieve what we 've got . |