Example sentences of "[verb] to achieve [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clause similar to the following can be included to achieve this : ( a ) The parties agree to procure that the amount(s) of any payment(s) ( net of corporation tax to the extent that this is not franked by the payment of advance corporation tax payable on the distribution to be made pursuant to this clause ( a ) ) received by the Company pursuant to any claim(s) made under the keyman insurance effected by the Company pursuant to clause … shall as soon as practicable following receipt of such amount(s) by the Company be distributed to the Investor by way of dividend net of any advance corporation tax payable . |
| 2 | The scale of injustice , cruelty , and tyranny in the world in 1988 cries out for continuing protest of various forms including the democratic and peaceful marches and assemblies which in the 1960s helped to achieve greater civil rights in the USA and in many other nations , whilst the same phenomenon , sometimes more disorderly , hastened the end of U.S. participation in the Vietnam War . |
| 3 | The adoption of iron instead of wood for floor beams helped to achieve this aim . |
| 4 | co-operative structures , designed to achieve agreed common objectives , ie. with no systematic conflict of interest ; and |
| 5 | The government 's economic programme for 1991 was designed to achieve real economic growth of about 5 per cent , to hold inflation down to 14 per cent and to limit the deterioration in the current-account balance . |
| 6 | In an important sense the factual survey and the attitude survey were designed to achieve practical objectives rather than serve disinterested theoretically inspired research . |
| 7 | Some government policies seem designed to achieve greater income equality by redistributing income from more affluent to poorer groups . |
| 8 | The new grouping , known as the Alliance , consisted of the Democratic Party ( also known as the New Zealand Democratic Party , founded in 1953 as the New Zealand Social Credit Political League ) ; the New Labour Party ( NLP ) ; the Green Party of Aotearoa ( founded in 1972 as the New Zealand Values Party ) ; and the New Zealand Self-Government Party ( Manu Motuhake o Aotearoa ) , an organization designed to achieve greater political and economic autonomy for the country 's 400,000 indigenous Maori population . |
| 9 | Business unit development is part of a wide-ranging training schedule designed to achieve continuous improvement . |
| 10 | Every aspect of this course has been designed to achieve two critical goals : |
| 11 | This is concerned with group image and is based on a long-term , carefully planned programme designed to achieve maximum recognition and understanding of the organisation 's objectives and performance which is in keeping with realistic expectations . |
| 12 | ‘ Whilst we support land reclamation , urban redevelopment and housing improvements , and recognise they can improve the quality of life for many people in Wales , unless these activities are designed to achieve more than just aesthetic goals they may actually increase environmental damage through energy consumption , waste generation , increased resource demands and traffic flows ’ , said Dr Neil Caldwell , CPRW 's Director . |
| 13 | Following Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) suggestion that style arises out of the pursuit of optimal relevance , it is argued that deliberate reformulations are a stylistic device designed to achieve particular contextual effects . |
| 14 | In contrast , deliberate reformulations are designed to achieve particular contextual effects , and they should not be taken to indicate a failure to communicate any more than , for example , repetition . |
| 15 | The overriding criticism of the National Curriculum proposals was that it was not designed to achieve significant fundamental aims : it did not obviously focus upon ‘ great issues , principles and values ’ , or on the development of fundamentally important attitudes and skills , which educators , industrialists , and all those concerned with the welfare of society and the enrichment of the individual , would see as paramount . |
| 16 | The point to make here is that the logic of adversary adjudication is that the decision of the court should be based on the case put to it by the parties in dispute and not on material or information supplied by third parties ; and rules of evidence are designed to achieve this result . |
| 17 | At the parliamentary level , multi-member constituencies are partly designed to achieve this . |
| 18 | There have been generative systems designed to achieve high degrees of robustness ( e.g. the FRUMP system ( Dejong , 1979 ) ) . |
| 19 | These principles chiefly concerned broadcasting organization , and the organization , of course , was designed to achieve complementary public service goals . |
| 20 | The next chapter describes the aims of the scheme and how both the action project and the research were designed to achieve these aims . |
| 21 | The general structure of this unitary grant system was well designed to achieve these purposes , but the detailed arrangements incorporated a number of elements which either detracted somewhat from the equity of the system or added to its complexity . |
| 22 | But even now , a woman has to achieve much more than a man in order to gain respect or " promotion " . |
| 23 | This is why the balance between the different parts of the human self is so very important and why we should all seek to achieve that balance if we possibly can . |
| 24 | As long as individuals are different and have personal aims , ambitions and needs they will seek to achieve those for themselves . |
| 25 | However , they did not seek to achieve these ends merely for reasons of age prejudice , though this was always an important consideration ; indeed , many of the other reasons grew out of this prejudice . |
| 26 | For example information about prices can , in certain circumstances , constitute a business secret : see the discussion in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 and Lansing Linde Ltd v Kerr [ 1991 ] 1 All ER 418. 2 Express duties once employment has ended By including express restrictive covenants in an employment contract an employer will seek to achieve three goals once employment is over : ( a ) to prevent the ex-employee canvassing orders from the employer 's customers ; ( b ) to prevent the ex-employee competing with his business ( usually within a defined geographical area ) ; ( c ) to prevent the ex-employee from using/disclosing any legitimate business secrets . |
| 27 | Harris says the 88110 Symmetric Superscalar microprocessors are up to five times faster than the 88100/200 combinations in the Night Hawk 4000 and with secondary cache are expected to achieve 70 SPECmarks per microprocessor . |
| 28 | Intel is also expected to achieve strong growth , taking over poll position this year , growing slower than RISC , but still likely to win up to 29% of the market by 1997 . |
| 29 | However on the basis of the evidence from the research on the relationship between age and subjects which we have discussed above , it seems likely that non-traditionally qualified students in areas such as science and engineering might be expected to achieve lower levels of success than those in areas such as arts or social sciences . |
| 30 | No-one in the Liverpool dressing room is left in any doubt as to the standards they are expected to achieve each time they are selected . |