Example sentences of "not achieve [det] " in BNC.

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1 If our staff are worried about problems at home or work they can not achieve that , ’ said , staff relations manager with Standard Life in Edinburgh , explaining the company 's decision to provide an Employee Assistance Programme ( EAP ) .
2 We did not achieve that , but the Regional Council has undertaken to carry the full costs itself .
3 Is it not simply because of this : that the government , because of their appalling mismanagement of our economy , have been forced to concede that they simply could not achieve that inflation target which they had set for themselves .
4 Everyone recognises that the banning of tobacco advertising does not achieve all those ends on its own — that it has to be part of wider strategy .
5 The prime minister did not achieve all his objectives , and he returned home to find that the new tide of anti-American criticism was still rising .
6 In general , end-folding does not achieve such good results , but this illustrates how — with a very small ‘ file ’ and key size — results can be variable .
7 The orally fixated individual however , like the primal hunter-gatherer , can not achieve such a self-mastery and must rely on his luck to feed whenever and wherever he may need to do so .
8 ‘ We will not achieve this without institutional changes .
9 We can not achieve this aim without the support of friends .
10 The Government 's proposed tax cut will not achieve this .
11 Where they could not achieve this they introduced the fish Gambusia affinis , which eats mosquito larvae , and applied petroleum oils and Paris Green ( copper acetoarsenite ) as poisons .
12 We have argued that for questions of value reason can not achieve this independence .
13 She would not achieve this position of prominence through conquest but through example and inspiration .
14 I realise that knitters with other makes of machine can not achieve this stitch , which , I suppose , is why one sees few patterns for it .
15 Pay increases alone could not achieve this without inflating the country 's wage bill to an unacceptable level .
16 They did not achieve this , but their future was closely to parallel that of the cotton hand-loom weavers in moving through boom to desperation .
17 Part of the Medau Society 's submission to the Sports Council was that we increase our membership numbers , and therefore our income — if we do not achieve this it will have repercussions on our grant .
18 To ease the new channel 's birth , the ITC has decided it need not achieve any more than 30 per cent coverage of the country in its first year .
19 The two subjects who slept little to start with did not achieve any such permanent reduction in sleep .
20 The most newsworthy and well-written release will not achieve any coverage if it is sent to the wrong outlet .
21 Yet these did not achieve any great scale , perhaps because of suspicions of their implications for state involvement in the economy .
22 Although he did not achieve any recognition from the United States that the USSR was an ‘ equal ’ power , he did secure an American guarantee not to invade Cuba , which has diminished the spectre of how the Soviet Union would respond to such an event .
23 But the confusing plethora of separate joint boards on the fire service , strategic planning , waste disposal and other matters which succeeded them suggests that abolition did not achieve those ends These boards are now under no direct electoral control , but are instead made up of nominees from often compulsorily participant councils .
24 Without the inclusion of creative activities , education does not achieve those objectives which those with rather narrow views claim for it , especially in terms of personal development .
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