Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] to achieve " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is striking how even when certain minority groups tend to achieve mean levels of attainment above those of the white majority , they still remain heavily disadvantaged in employment terms . |
| 2 | The purpose is to evaluate different strategies designed to achieve the appropriate dietary change within the framework of existing food production , processing and marketing industries . |
| 3 | But the results obtained by pioneer workers were not confirmed , when properly controlled experiments in infected animals failed to achieve any success . |
| 4 | Its lengthy sessions failed to achieve anything of note . |
| 5 | Conventionalism denies this : a conventionalist judge has no reason for acknowledging consistency in principle as a judicial virtue or for dissecting ambiguous statutes or inexact precedents to try to achieve it . |
| 6 | Goals are often too readily set and aims too ambitiously expressed and unless a systematic ( scientific ) examination is made of the methods utilised to achieve these ends , there is the danger that progress may be slowed or even upset … . ’ |
| 7 | It should , however , be mentioned that the number of sessions needed to achieve adequate dilatation was significantly higher in the corrosive group . |
| 8 | It would be impossible to tell the results apart but the methods used to achieve them are very different . |
| 9 | The aims of language teaching in school have become more practical ( as a comparison between the GCSE and the old O- level clearly shows ) and the methods used to achieve them more ‘ communicative ’ . |
| 10 | The methods used to achieve these aims involved both analysing data collected in the earlier projects ( 1985-87 ) , and investigations during the current project ( 1988 ) . |
| 11 | There are numerous different outline shapes used to achieve different widths , but the three most common are the pintail , the rounded pintail winger and the squash tail . |
| 12 | The first means identifying these issues that are critical to leisure policy and the means by which decision-makers operate to achieve the goals established by legislation or ministerial directives . |
| 13 | They said : ‘ Most schools continued to achieve satisfactory or better standards in reading at the age of five . |
| 14 | As with all scientific endeavour , however , it is essential to have a clear vision of the true goal and to have critically appraised the steps required to achieve it . |
| 15 | A meeting held in Tokyo in early June between the warring Cambodian factions failed to achieve a breakthrough in the search for peace . |
| 16 | This may be due in part to the fact that women in developing countries tend to achieve second or third parity at much younger ages than is the case in developed regions . |
| 17 | There is little incentive in the British context for disaffected administrators to try to achieve their ends by making informal alliances with members of the legislature . |
| 18 | The parents want to achieve a minimum of emotional involvement because they have no energy to think and no patience but the result is often a greater investment of time and effort through forcing the child via threats , smacks , and shouts . |
| 19 | The control movements needed to achieve this vary according to the configuration of the undercarriage . |
| 20 | Moss is concerned by what he heard at the COSE announcement that the companies aim to achieve systems management harmony at a lower level , perhaps at an applications level , than the single high-level link Tivoli is offering . |
| 21 | The year 's end might seem a long way off but the minute-by-minute activities of a Profitboss are always directed to that end and the interim end-results required to achieve it . |
| 22 | Key competencies are an important part of Robson Rhodes ' performance management system , which sets targets and outlines the skills needed to achieve them . |
| 23 | The City Zones is the first band with the Abergele-based Fast Tracks Records to achieve 2,000 sales . |
| 24 | In the event , this plan was only partially successful , for the rebels failed to achieve their objectives in Madrid ; in the important commercial and industrial cities of Barcelona and Valencia ; and in the mining and manufacturing provinces of Asturias and the Basque Country . |
| 25 | Banks want to achieve profitability whilst maintaining sufficient liquidity . |
| 26 | Most retailers want to achieve both of the above aims , so they need to plan the most appropriate advertising campaign . |
| 27 | What Karlsson does not explain here , of course , is how some apparently psychotic individuals manage to achieve effective creativity — albeit in some cases only in between periods of illness whereas others , probably the majority , fail entirely to do so . |
| 28 | A proposal for the reform of the Italian railway network advocated the dismissal of the board if it failed for two years running to achieve performance targets ( Santoro 1985 ) , and the Spanish Socialist government has similarly toyed with the idea of sacking unsuccessful chairmen ( Tamames 1983 : 371 ) . |
| 29 | And if governments wish to achieve their targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions , they will have to address the priorities of industry and electorates . |
| 30 | Similarly the status of the Tridacnid clams in terms of conservation was very worrying until recently when captive breeding and replenishment programmes began to achieve success . |