Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to achieve " in BNC.

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1 Certainly it 's a sad loss for Lyneham and particularly the squadrons involved but our operational task remains and the training goes on to achieve that
2 By passing on his skills he has given other youngsters the incentive to go on to achieve greater things .
3 By the means/ends equation , I mean the assumption that what the learner has eventually to achieve by way of language ability should determine what he does in the process of acquiring that ability .
4 I think it will be clear that the narrower the space unc the more stringent the cancellation requirement outside it , and in consequence a greater number of different waves will have to be added together to achieve it .
5 Because so many people in the West eat such a large proportion of their daily calories in the form of refined sugary and starchy foods , it was found that , when these foods were strictly rationed , daily calorie intake usually automatically dropped sufficiently to achieve weight loss .
6 It maintained high standards in the past since George and Marie insisted on these and were able to work together to achieve them .
7 Thus , even where the immediate constraints impose tight restrictions on behaviour the group can still be effective if they can be motivated to work together to achieve their objectives .
8 He said the two countries had agreed to intensify their joint efforts to ‘ re-energise the peace process ’ , to encourage the partners to return to the negotiations , and to work together to achieve an early resumption of the next round of talks .
9 They were designed not to achieve but to prevent .
10 The Bank buys and sells daily in the market in a manner which is designed both to achieve its interest rate objectives ( see Ch. 18 ) and to support the market .
11 Ash and biodegradable waste must be added regularly to achieve the right carbon nitrogen ratio .
12 It was not easy to avoid domestic politics but we tried hard to achieve a delicate balance .
13 To date , our Procase development team has rewritten several systems several times and has yet to achieve any significant reusable code .
14 The farm worker , in many respects , has yet to achieve his place in the sun , but he is also less willing to accept the low status which the rest of society seems to offer him .
15 Edinburgh has yet to achieve parity core-funding with the younger London Film Festival .
16 We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille .
17 If anything is demonstrated by the USSR 's record on energy over the past decade it is that the resources , the equipment , manpower and the money do exist broadly to achieve whatever the mighty planning and executive mechanism dictates .
18 And you 've struggled enormously to achieve the things you have , although you are still suffering .
19 St Ives , exposed as it is to the advertising cycle through the production of magazines , has done well to achieve profits stability after a sharp fall from £29.1m in 1989/90 .
20 For instance , a corporation may have clear strong central guidelines on financial targets while leaving the subsidiary companies free to choose how to achieve them .
21 The Labour Party will not revive until it can show how to achieve jobs for all who need them .
22 The tightening control of schools by politicians ( of right , left and centre ) was made easier to achieve because teachers and parents had made schools more open , more community conscious .
23 If we can work together to achieve both sets of rights in the next ten years or so , we will have done , I think , a fantastic job .
24 Unfortunately insufficient members turned up to achieve a quorum , but ex-chairman , Robin Brookes , took the opportunity to state that the guild could not continue to be run on a rotation of volunteers .
25 Regency stripe , classical motifs and rich wood have been used here to achieve a formal style that is also very natural .
26 We showed how to achieve certain basic patterns by using the processes that we discovered and then we saw how they could be combined to achieve a large class of patterns .
27 The SNP exists primarily to achieve Scottish independence .
28 For them , yoga is as powerful as any other path of magic , though it takes longer to achieve magical results .
29 However , after the age of 65 , the chance of an accident with serious consequences does become much greater and a recovery often takes longer to achieve .
30 From 1873 to 1876 he acted as marine superintendent with Hargrove , Fergusson & Jackson , for whom he constructed both ships and machinery , striving always to achieve greater power , efficiency , and economy .
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