Example sentences of "[adv] try to achieve " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a week on the rack , far away from home , constantly trying to achieve this extra margin which , I hardly need to point out , would have gone straight down to the bottom line and would have been shown as profit . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is not a common pattern in the UK , although many design consultancies are now trying to achieve this . |
| 7 | Such a calculation is not a perfect one , and there is bound to be a failure from time to time if you are really trying to achieve that objective . |
| 8 | What are they really trying to achieve ? |
| 9 | Erm as to the assertion that Harrogate wants office jobs and not industrial jobs , and I think the main point there is that we we 're simply trying to achieve jobs to meet the needs of our resident workforce . |
| 10 | DHAs would then try to achieve a lesser level of pruning , and the RHA would consider that position . |
| 11 | The enlightened bureaucrats who were primarily responsible for drawing up the legislation of 1861 may not have achieved everything for which they were striving , but they were undoubtedly trying to achieve more than the modernization of the gentry 's sources of income or the revivification of the state machine . |
| 12 | It is important therefore to try to achieve some clarity . |
| 13 | The key here is that Major may be about to achieve in government what Thatcher never did — indeed , she never tried to achieve it . |
| 14 | There is no question that well designed Italianate lent itself admirably to that display of powerful dignity which the railways were currently trying to achieve . |