Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to achieve " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It maintained high standards in the past since George and Marie insisted on these and were able to work together to achieve them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ash and biodegradable waste must be added regularly to achieve the right carbon nitrogen ratio . |
| 9 | It was not easy to avoid domestic politics but we tried hard to achieve a delicate balance . |
| 10 | To date , our Procase development team has rewritten several systems several times and has yet to achieve any significant reusable code . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Edinburgh has yet to achieve parity core-funding with the younger London Film Festival . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And you 've struggled enormously to achieve the things you have , although you are still suffering . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Regency stripe , classical motifs and rich wood have been used here to achieve a formal style that is also very natural . |
| 20 | The SNP exists primarily to achieve Scottish independence . |
| 21 | For them , yoga is as powerful as any other path of magic , though it takes longer to achieve magical results . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Along with his intensely loyal family he struggles hard to achieve downward mobility . |
| 25 | I devoted my twenties to my family but I intend now to achieve the career that I never had before . |
| 26 | There are few , if any , suggestions of how individual movements can be linked together to achieve some expressive or rhythmic quality suitable to the style of dance required by the plot , theme and/or music . |
| 27 | In the Ptolemaic system , the orbits of the sun , Mercury and Venus have to be artificially linked together to achieve the required result . |
| 28 | But decline does not mean " cessation " , immediately or even after a very long time ; although erection will occur gradually less often , ejaculation will take longer to achieve with the passing years and the frequency of sexual intercourse tends slowly to decrease , there need not be any enormous difference sexually between a man of 20 and one of 70 . |
| 29 | Even the youngest children worked assiduously to achieve the goal of a correct and mutually agreed route and destination . |
| 30 | In Germany a large working class had to fight simultaneously to achieve or maintain trade union and economic rights , as well as to secure full citizenship and political rights . |