Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to achieve " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yet , although the leaders of both sides of industry worked hard to achieve a common agreement on policies to present to the government the talks , and the influence they exerted , began to wither away after a couple of years , and did not survive into the 1930s . |
| 32 | Apart from some initial instability of woodwind tuning , the orchestra , under its conductor John Forster , worked hard to achieve the necessary space in the opening and at the same time that important sense of continuity . |
| 33 | Plans to sell off businesses to raise cash have proved hard to achieve . |
| 34 | Stays would be tightened mercilessly to achieve the desired figure , and the image of women fainting because of over-tightened stays is a commonplace in the literature of the period . |
| 35 | At present , no minister could answer a parliamentary question by saying that whatever his views on the matter , responsibility had been allocated for this function to Assistant Secretary Brown and it was up to that official to take whatever course of action he thought best to achieve the set objectives . |
| 36 | The regional council 's ruling Labour group said that the closures must go ahead to achieve £600,000 savings in a hard-pressed education budget . |
| 37 | I would certainly advocate the existence of more fora where the three sectors can come together to achieve mutual understanding and where c we can debate this new order , and make joint decisions about its future . |
| 38 | After an inept start , Rangers battled belligerently to achieve the result they sought which keeps them abreast of Marseille , who defeated Club Brugge 3-0 in France . |
| 39 | Given these circumstances , the Division did well to achieve an operating profit of £20.5 million , virtually identical to last year 's contribution . |
| 40 | Both professional organisations and the statutory bodies have worked hard to achieve a career structure which rewards so-called ‘ hands on ’ nursing , and moves away from a system whereby the standard route for promotion is removal from direct patient care into a separate hierarchical management role . |
| 41 | Peggy Rockcliffe has worked hard to achieve its present high degree of comfort , adding bathrooms , a dining room and turning a barn into a spacious sitting room . |
| 42 | Those who have worked hard to achieve the awards deserve nothing less . |
| 43 | She 'd worked hard to achieve it . |
| 44 | She had worked hard to achieve qualification in the contracts and purchasing side of engineering , but , in her present job , she was using less than a quarter of her skills . |
| 45 | The salmon pages then Chair , are those items which have been put forward to achieve the guidelines set by Policy and Resources Committee . |
| 46 | To schematise , the British working class has not been ready to run the risks of attempting to constitute itself as the ruling class , of putting forward concrete proposals for working class control over industry and finance and fighting seriously to achieve them . |
| 47 | A group is a collection of individual people who come together to achieve some purpose . |
| 48 | Communications serve well to achieve profit . |
| 49 | Certainly , a growing number of organisations are trying hard to achieve just that . |
| 50 | ‘ Three quarters of a century later , London had yet to achieve that abundance . ’ |
| 51 | The delegation representing the Serbian-dominated Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) ( which had yet to achieve international recognition ) was headed by Prime Minister Milan Panic and President Dobrica Cosic . |
| 52 | Strategies used to help mildly academically handicapped pupils to remedy situations of social rejection include co-operative learning and working together to achieve common goals ; both strategies can be used with visually handicapped pupils . |
| 53 | In a passage likely to upset Mrs Thatcher 's belief in a ‘ special relationship ’ between London and Washington , he suggested that the US and the EC ‘ work together to achieve , whether in treaty or some other form , a significantly strengthened set of institutional and consultative links . |
| 54 | They work together to achieve the overall objectives of the organization . |
| 55 | The successful ones adjust purposefully to achieve their ends , the less successful act involuntarily . |
| 56 | Mothers have definite expectations of the amount of social feedback from their infants ; and mothers of preterm babies work harder to achieve their quota . |
| 57 | You have to plot carefully to achieve the surprise at the end . |
| 58 | But , as will be seen , such liberal theologians have yet to achieve power within the political religious establishment . |
| 59 | O'Connor points out that demands for the game in Budapest is based on the dangerous presumption that the Republic will beat Northern Ireland — a result they have yet to achieve after three meetings . |
| 60 | The fish pictured are not fully mature and have yet to achieve the intense red colouring of the caudal and dorsal finnage . |