Example sentences of "[v-ing] achieve [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professional miner seeking to achieve a higher standard of living through maximisation of earnings scarcely existed in the early sixteenth century . |
| 2 | Mr Newton , choosing his words carefully , said the Government would ‘ certainly ensure the needs and interests of western Grampian and Argyll and Bute are taken fully into account at the same time as seeking to achieve the best outcome for the Highlands and Islands ’ . |
| 3 | Since we last wrote , we have been lobbying to achieve the same relaxation for voluntary drivers from sport as is proposed to be granted to those driving in a voluntary capacity for charities . |
| 4 | ‘ The only thing that can be said is that somebody has just snuffed out a very special person who was going to achieve an incredible amount in life . |
| 5 | Aiming to achieve a smart town house atmosphere . |
| 6 | ‘ The Government has done much to improve the ambulance service in recent years in striving to achieve the medical term the ‘ golden hour ’ for getting casualties to hospital . |
| 7 | The " feeling of knowing " offered either when drunk , drugged , drowsy or asleep is no reliable indication of having achieved a real solution to a problem ; there are unfortunately no short cuts in that direction ! |
| 8 | Some of Mrs Thatcher 's ‘ cheerleaders ’ in the party and popular press see her as having achieved a virtual revolution in British politics , restoring the authority of government , putting the trade unions in their place , taming a greedy and parasitic public sector , and regaining a greater freedom of choice for people in many areas . |
| 9 | Having achieved a necessary detachment from the tumultuous present , de Gaulle used a strategy of calculated flexibility to move towards his objective . |
| 10 | What Council was trying to recognise in shifting resources from information to training was that , having achieved a good product , additional fine tuning of the information system no longer need be a priority . |
| 11 | In 1625 the old king died , having achieved no effective drainage operations . |
| 12 | It would be true to describe the discipline as having achieved an astounding success if such success is measured in terms of the establishment of English literature as the central arts subject at A level , and thus at the basis of the constant demand for undergraduate places . |
| 13 | It added in June that the ruling coalition , having achieved the gradual removal of the Communists from power , was now " window-dressing " and that proper parliamentary elections were required . |
| 14 | The cultural revival has been planned for years by members of the good old Council , members that prefer to stay in the background , having achieved the astounding feat of legislating and pedestrianising their way through the licensing laws , to an atmosphere of continental cultural Bonhomie from Blairdardie to Baillieston . |
| 15 | One of the problems , of course , is that , with the invariably available and endlessly enthusiastic Dixon having achieved the remarkable feat of being appointed to no fewer than five of Scotland 's summer tours , there has not been too much opportunity for anyone else to advance his claims . |
| 16 | Bingley 's Richard Nerurkar , who finished second , should join him in the team , having achieved the qualifying time in the World Championships last year , but third-placed Paul Evans must decide whether to chase it in Europe before the team is finalised on June 28 . |
| 17 | This is only likely to happen on a large scale if an institution is failing to achieve a good return on the capital invested . |
| 18 | In cases where there is marked marital conflict and the parents are failing to achieve a satisfactory relationship , the children frequently play a significant part in the problem . |
| 19 | ‘ We have sites in France and the UK and now we have a strong presence in Germany — a cohesive team fighting to achieve the same objective . ’ |
| 20 | This means you have to do a lot of shuffling to achieve a respectable-looking document . |
| 21 | So that 's why their policies might seem a little bit wishy-washy in that how that if they were going straight for a rich peasant economy then perhaps you would have expected a more spectacular economic growth , but there was n't and perhaps this was because they did n't actually go positively just for a rich peasant economy , they were trying to achieve a greater degree of erm egalitarianism in the countryside at the same time . |
| 22 | In response to criticism from both the Public Accounts Committee and Social Services Committee the Department began to develop new ways of trying to achieve the elusive balance between central accountability and local autonomy and bring the management of health care resources under more effective control . |