Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to achieve " in BNC.
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| 31 | The pelagic animals generally try to achieve ‘ neutral buoyancy ’ , to enable them to stay at the required depth without effort ; and many have devices to alter buoyancy . |
| 32 | However , I have to say I have been disappointed that through TOP we are not managing to achieve more . |
| 33 | Libraries of this kind normally aim to achieve a certain standard of appearance in their bookstock , though the standard itself is inevitably governed by the size of the bookfund . |
| 34 | The Wildlife and Countryside Act has fuelled controversy over the kinds and quantities of species and habitats to be protected and conserved , and the best means to achieve this . |
| 35 | If you can honestly visualise yourself as you want to be , you can not fail to achieve it ! |
| 36 | They were waiting for them inside the restaurant , which turned out to be a smallish place that somehow managed to achieve an atmosphere of casualness and intimacy at the same time . |
| 37 | There can hardly ever have been a piece of legislation that has so utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives . |
| 38 | I was given soup from the middle pot , meaning I had just managed to achieve my work quota . |
| 39 | During the course of February Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu finally managed to achieve the necessary legislative support for his plan to provide an additional US$9,000 million towards the cost of the allied war effort against Iraq . |
| 40 | His restless mind had returned to the unfinished business of Benghazi and the possibility of destroying shipping which he had so far signally failed to achieve . |
| 41 | The general pattern seems to be , however , that ‘ second wave ’ change has achieved its first objective — the implementation of new structures — but has largely failed to achieve the ‘ cultural ’ sea-change : the involvement of clinicians and a new approach to consumers . |
| 42 | We st we still want to achieve land reform because that ultimately is , is going to be the only way of ensuring that we end feudalism and the proper benefits go to the poor . |
| 43 | Innovations in teaching methods do not usually come in the form of simple additions to a teacher 's repertoire , generalizable to all subject matters , but are usually designed to achieve more effectively an understanding of some particular X. Usually , for a variety of reasons , the descriptions of ‘ how to proceed ’ are not at a level of precision which makes the teacher a programmed automaton ; it follows that any teacher persuaded to adopt the innovation must be willing and able to explore modifications to his repertoire in order to try and achieve the hoped-for improvement in his pupils ' understanding of X at which the innovation is aimed . |
| 44 | It was funded jointly by the DES and LEAs and its membership was deliberately designed to achieve a majority of teachers . |
| 45 | Urgent research is still needed to achieve this . |
| 46 | say that women have been discriminated against for so long that they just have n't had the opportunities to rise up through the ranks , and if they are ever going to achieve the kind of representation that they ought to achieve just by the sheer numbers that the represent in the population , apart from the quality , and there are a lot of people who would say that women are probably rather superior erm to a lot of men at an equal level |
| 47 | Nevertheless , these kids still approach the major record companies in search of greater fame and fortune than they could ever hope to achieve by themselves . |
| 48 | This reduces the amount of memory your file needs , speeds things up and gives a much better result at the end of the day than you could ever hope to achieve with a scanner . |
| 49 | They remain certain that planning , when in the proper hands and organized in a proper way , can bring a degree of social responsibility , security of conditions , and avoidance of waste and duplication , that no market system of atomized competitive production units can ever hope to achieve . |
| 50 | And cocaine when it was available , but it was very rare at that time , y'know , but opium seemed to be very stable , there was always opium available and that was the thing that I would always try to achieve , to obtain , y'know . |
| 51 | Despite the economy in Australia being much th same as for our businesses in other parts of the world , we still managed to achieve our budget with over 500 lot sales . |
| 52 | Nevertheless , despite the above positive features of assessment and certification , there may be some well-motivated and diligent pupils who still fail to achieve all the learning outcomes . |
| 53 | Members of formal groups are usually very goal-oriented and groups are deliberately structured to achieve those goals . |
| 54 | Other studies suggest that media representations may sometimes be deliberately constructed to achieve a favourable impression of police violence against a politically ‘ threatening ’ group . |
| 55 | The District 's Annual Report for 1959–60 said that , although the WEA 's national officers were still trying to achieve this increased grant , the Eastern had exceptionally-strong claims and accordingly ‘ we are now pressing for special consideration ’ : in other words , Jacques was arguing with the Ministry that , even if it could not afford 90% grant to the WEA as a whole , could this not be allowed to the Eastern District individually ? |
| 56 | There are two forms of late hitting , one where a player is deliberately trying to achieve it , and the other where the player does not realise he is hitting too late . |
| 57 | They are said to be generally positive to the takeover but still need to achieve certain comfort levels . |
| 58 | Smaller wage rises would make it possible to have lower inflation at a higher level of output — a combination that clever manipulations of macroeconomic policy ( interest rates , exchange rates and budget deficits ) have always failed to achieve . |
| 59 | This is a popular choice among cloners and even though it was uncached it still managed to achieve data transfer dates in excess of 900Kb/sec . |
| 60 | High expectations are set up for the client to gradually learn to achieve deep feelings of heaviness and relaxation throughout the body . |