Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [be] achieved by " in BNC.
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| 1 | This flexibility should not be achieved by moving staff around at will , for the lack of stability is a contributory factor to wastage . |
| 2 | What may not be achieved by argument can be brought about by provocation . |
| 3 | If the presumption of wives ' financial dependence on their husbands is not outdated in the 1980s , equitable treatment of the sexes in tax , pensions , social security and the financial arrangements on divorce may not be achieved by equal treatment . |
| 4 | It was thought that this might best be achieved by reconstructing the village , with each building standing on its original site and being used , wherever possible , for its original purpose . |
| 5 | Some researchers suggest that this environmental scanning process might best be achieved by developing especially organised environmental scanning units that are positioned towards the top of an organisation 's hierarchy . |
| 6 | It was agreed that this might best be achieved by a series of dinners to launch development projects of the University . |
| 7 | The idea that these targets might simply be achieved by a cosy consortium between the health and education services begins to crack with research reported by Nutbeam et al in this issue ( p 102 ) . |
| 8 | And they suggest that improvements might well be achieved by taking these factors into consideration in the process of specification , design , construction , installation , commissioning and maintenance of buildings and their services . |
| 9 | This kind of inhibition could perhaps be achieved by including , amongst the letter detectors , a space detector , activated by the absence of input from the feature level . |
| 10 | Keeping fit could only be achieved by exercising in the early morning , when the temperature was tolerable , and tempers not too frayed . |
| 11 | In the latter case , only a decade later , the world had changed , inflation was being controlled and growth had slowed , so that recovery from the overexpansion could only be achieved by retrenchment . |
| 12 | Their return to Japan in 1873 saw the implementation of a strategy based on a realization that a repeal of the ‘ unequal ’ treaties could only be achieved by trying to bring Japan up to Western standards in the things Westerners considered important — legal system , political structure , economic legislation and a general level of ‘ culture ’ and ‘ civilization ’ . |
| 13 | Whether annexation was a long-term aim in Japan is debatable ; what is clear is that Japanese believed that their nation 's security necessitated a hold on power in Korea of a kind which could only be achieved by colonial status . |
| 14 | Again this could only be achieved by teamwork , the medical component as important as all the others . |
| 15 | The room was sparse and tidy , as fresh-looking and tasteful as the rest of the apartment , and like the rest of the place it told her nothing about Carson — except , perhaps , that he employed somebody to clean up for him , because it had the impersonal neatness which could only be achieved by an outsider . |
| 16 | Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V-C said that this could only be achieved by an oral examination of the witnesses . |
| 17 | Gaining an overview of that risk was very costly and could only be achieved by ordering credit reports , of whatever format , on a case-by-case basis . |
| 18 | The " Coalition for Vehicle Choice " argues that this could only be achieved by the production of smaller and lighter cars , which it claims can be less safe in crashes than bigger ones . |
| 19 | Strong and creative relationships between schools and within an LEA result in a richness of educational provision which could not be achieved by each school going its own way . |
| 20 | But this function could not be achieved by the state directly since it was too remote . |
| 21 | If the effect of the rule was that an emergency ring holding position could not be achieved by making a residence order , because of a requirement for 21 days notice , then section 9(5) would have no application and the judge was free to achieve the objective by means of a specific issue order and/or a prohibited steps order . |
| 22 | Whilst desktop publishing at the low-end of the market may appear to be a careful juggling match between cost and quality of output , as indeed it is , the real determining factor about the suitability of the products is whether they actually provide some benefit that could not be achieved by other means . |
| 23 | Hence this type of learning could not be achieved by mere transient modulation of transmitter release ; new proteins were being made , and it was necessary to discover which they were and what their cellular functions were . |
| 24 | As the late Sir John Biggs-Davison pointed out , this could best be achieved by raising a regiment of West Indian Guards , to serve alongside — and compete with — the Scots , Irish and Welsh Guards . |
| 25 | This could best be achieved by including Language as one of the D.E.S . |
| 26 | It was argued that this could best be achieved by preventing the need for candidates from the same party to compete with each other in multimember seats , thereby reducing their need spend huge sums of money during the campaign . |
| 27 | This could best be achieved by the threat of nuclear strikes against the USSR . |
| 28 | ‘ The overwhelming priority is to catch those responsible , and it was agreed with the Surrey constabulary that this could best be achieved by quiet investigation . |
| 29 | Even during our period a great part of agriculture was conducted in ways which would have been quite familiar a hundred , even two hundred years earlier , which was natural since striking results could still be achieved by generalising the best methods known to pre-industrial farming . |
| 30 | It should be emphasised that the shape discrimination required is usually much more subtle than could ever be achieved by verbal shape descriptions , and that the heavier tools of mathematics need to be applied . |