Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] achieved [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be noted that the delivery times recorded were achieved despite the fact that , owing to illness and vacation , the Book Fetching Unit was operating with less than its normal complement of staff throughout the periods of the Survey . |
| 2 | The previous year , a more credible figure had been achieved without the need of a formal agreement at all . |
| 3 | Ten new vats had been installed since Christmas , there was a new dryer , the warehouse had been extended — and all this had been achieved despite the fact that twenty of the feeble " yellows " were still dying every month from malaria ! |
| 4 | These improved growth rates had been achieved despite the continuing insurgency in the north and north-east , which he said was now under control . |
| 5 | Success had been achieved through the meticulous planning of their leader , Papa . |
| 6 | At about that time , Kurds in Iraq , hoping perhaps to emulate the positive side of what had been achieved over the border , rose in revolt . |
| 7 | Later in that decade the British media announced , with some pride , that the eminent scientist Sir John Cockroft was ‘ 90 per-cent certain ’ that controlled thermonuclear fusion had been achieved at the Harwell Laboratory . |
| 8 | All the great middle-class moral reforms of the age had been achieved at the expense of pleasure and enjoyment . |
| 9 | Standard and Poor 's cautioned , however , that macro-economic success had been achieved at the expense of widening the gap between rich and poor and through reduced spending on health , education and infrastructure . |
| 10 | Alatas and Durao Barroso both acknowledged that no significant progress had been achieved at the meeting . |
| 11 | All this had been achieved at the expense of the Liberal Party which had monopolized all three areas before 1910 . |
| 12 | Officials reported that ‘ good progress ’ had been achieved at the meeting and the package would go before the full Cabinet tomorrow . |
| 13 | Once tracheal intubation had been achieved with the aid of a stylet , surgery proceeded uneventfully . |
| 14 | While it freed him from a form of dependency — his succession to the LDP leadership had been achieved with the faction 's support — it also meant that the future of his premiership would depend on the skill with which he was able to balance the party 's competing factions — including his own — all of which were of roughly equal strength . |
| 15 | He realized that we felt disgusted at what had been achieved in the commandos and that he had had this brainwave of small parties behind the lines . ’ |
| 16 | All pupils in the first year of the schools were included , ensuring that each group was sufficiently large to detect differences between the intervention and control groups of the same size as had been achieved in the original evaluation of the two interventions . |
| 17 | Sommer and Zeger have estimated that if full compliance had been achieved in the Aceh study the reduction in mortality in months 4 to 12 would have been 72% rather than the 41% given by the intention to treat analysis . |
| 18 | Town and country planning , published in 1933 ( significantly , in view of the new interest taken in planning in the wartime years , with a second edition in 1943 and three further reprints by 1945 ) , declared that : Historic examples showed what had been achieved in the past , but Abercrombie stressed the degradation of industrialization which the country had experienced in the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | The attack , the first major violation of a ceasefire signed by the LTTE and government security forces in June 1989 [ see p. 36735 ] , dashed hopes that a breakthrough had been achieved in the search for a peaceful settlement to the conflict . |
| 20 | In the face of opposition calls for a boycott , and reports of widespread apathy among the electorate , the Interior Ministry announced on Sept. 5 that a 99.96 per cent " yes " vote had been achieved in the previous day 's referendum on proposed constitutional changes . |
| 21 | What the hot water and applied gymnastics had failed to do had been achieved by the rough journey in the bullock cart . |
| 22 | Whatever had been achieved by the 1976 Act , it had made little impact on this case except for the removal of her name from the media . |
| 23 | Hitherto , it had been achieved by the male cells swimming through water , a process which demanded that the sexual generation be small and close to the ground . |
| 24 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 25 | Leese claimed that his ‘ martyrdom ’ had been achieved against the wishes of the Jury who had acquitted him on the serious charge . |