Example sentences of "[vb mod] only [be] achieved [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Hoby was also a martinet and believed that learning could only be achieved through hard work and discipline . |
| 2 | We demanded proof of intent , and that could only be achieved through living a separatist lifestyle . |
| 3 | Harfleur had taught him a lesson : he must be properly prepared for siege warfare , all the more so since he now planned a conquest which could only be achieved through sieges and the show of effective military might . |
| 4 | The first , Phan Boi Chau , believed that the French had to be removed — and that this could only be achieved through armed struggle . |
| 5 | This could only be achieved through the support of the chairperson and headteacher . |
| 6 | It began to accelerate in February 1965 , when de Gaulle stated publicly that a definitive resolution of the German problem could only be achieved through an understanding of all Europeans , west and east . |
| 7 | One of the most valuable lessons the Party had learnt during the initial twenty years of land reform was that socialism could only be achieved through stages . |
| 8 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 9 | A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests , and this was politically unacceptable . |
| 10 | A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests , and this was politically unacceptable . |
| 11 | Keeping fit could only be achieved by exercising in the early morning , when the temperature was tolerable , and tempers not too frayed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Again this could only be achieved by teamwork , the medical component as important as all the others . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V-C said that this could only be achieved by an oral examination of the witnesses . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She turns the Government 's self-help approach around by arguing that urban recovery will only be achieved by empowering the people who live in cities . |
| 21 | Therefore , while defensive measures must not be abandoned for the foreseeable future , we firmly believe sustainability will only be achieved by injecting an environmental imperative into the developmental process . |
| 22 | Co-ordination with the other flyers through a schedule of figures can only be achieved with full understanding , and a strong team leader who acts as a caller to signal all the changes of movement . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , if one plots unemployment against data showing the acceleration or deceleration of price inflation then a trade-off does re-emerge , which is consistent with a monetarist view of the economy ; lower levels of unemployment which are below the natural , market-determined , rate can only be achieved with the consequence of an acceleration of the rate of inflation . |
| 24 | Good arrangements and an eye for detail can only be achieved with practice , so it may help to have a few guidelines to follow in the first place , if only to act as a spring board for producing interesting and unusual ideas of your own . |
| 25 | Now that 's the kind of information that is absolutely vital for them to understand , in fact for us — I mean I myself am from the Third World — to understand what the problems are , but which can only be achieved with centres in the developed countries that are prepared to make this into a working programme erm for the benefit of both , because in very many cases improving erm the lot of the Third World on the question of revenue from commodities will also improve their position , or the British or the American , or the European consumer , by eliminating intermediaries and so on and so forth . |
| 26 | Furthermore , Hoyle suggests that there is indeed a tension between the two approaches — that restricted professionality is unlikely in practice to be capable of extension or , put another way , that extended professionality can only be achieved at the cost of effective , restricted professionality at the classroom level . |
| 27 | AMP would like 5 per cent of the life insurance market in Britain , which experts feel can only be achieved through acquisition . |
| 28 | Quality can only be achieved through passion and pride . |
| 29 | SUCCESS BREEDS SUCCESS AND INEVITABLY THE NEW 1991 OYSTER 68'S WILL BENEFIT FROM REFINEMENTS THAT CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED THROUGH DEVELOPMENT OF AN ESTABLISHED CLASS . |
| 30 | This sense of time or sensation of time , which is always a private and individual experience , can only be achieved through the language of art : nature does n't do it ; furniture does n't do it ; design does n't do it ; architecture rarely does it . |