Example sentences of "[adv] achieve a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While any one of these groups can individually try to alter the design of a building , each can only achieve a little on their own . |
| 2 | NERC is in a situation in which it can not please every department , and it can only achieve a limited degree of acceptability by adopting the negative posture of being seen not to be unfair to particular departments ( hence spreading small numbers of grants as widely as possible ) . |
| 3 | The letters alone , however , could only achieve a limited amount . |
| 4 | Trade unionists knew that they could only achieve a limited level of their ambitions through industrial means and they realized that they needed working class MPs to support them in parliament . |
| 5 | It also encourages the community to anticipate such changes and so achieves a good part of the benefit of change without the waste of litigation , or the expensive , uncertain , and awkward process of legislation . |
| 6 | P.O. ( A ) Jopling and his TAG , L/A Glen , were in the Skua ( L3007 ) , they and the Fulmar firing from long range but only achieving a single hit on the dorsal turret , but both then closed in and after further firing the much-damaged floatplane came down on the sea , the engineer breaking an arm during the crash-landing . |
| 7 | For the majority , no dream of winning but the satisfaction of completing the course , perhaps achieving a personal best . |
| 8 | Some arranged for consultants to hold clinics on the practice premises , thus improving access for their patients but not necessarily achieving a cost saving . |
| 9 | However , if we looked at the total costs of using the vehicles one could argue that by using reducing balance the repair costs in later life would be compensated by the additional depreciation in earlier years so achieving a matching of costs and revenues over the assets ' life . |
| 10 | The Council felt that it had only achieved a limited success in achieving the aims determined above . |
| 11 | Inoculation against smallpox had been practised since the 1720s , although it constituted a potentially lethal measure in itself and only achieved an erratic degree of success against a disease which probably claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population throughout the century , and disfigured many of the survivors . |
| 12 | In a public or university library which does not have subject specialists on its staff — or even in those that do — this places an intolerably heavy burden of responsibility on the individual 's judgement , and it is unlikely that any one person called upon to make weeding decisions over a spectrum of subject fields will on the basis of judgement alone achieve a consistent rate of ‘ correct ’ decision making . |
| 13 | So to achieve a , a sort of given result you have to work much harder . |
| 14 | Brittleness is not a special condition , it is the normal state of all simple non-metallic solids which can not generate dislocations and so achieve a high work of fracture . |
| 15 | The main concern of the purchaser will be whether to rely on the sale and purchase contract as constituting the assignment between the purchaser and the vendor or whether to issue notices of assignment to each party to the contracts after completion and so achieve a statutory assignment rather than an equitable assignment . |
| 16 | The intention is that students of elaborate structures in language should be able to construct them as well as receive and consume them , if only to achieve a better understanding of how poems are made . |
| 17 | You can do the same using Oliver Neighbour 's The consort and keyboard music of William Byrd ( London , 1978 ) and the various records many now sadly deleted that together achieve a more nearly comprehensive coverage of those two repertories . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In our experience , one 's first kite eventually achieves a certain immortality . |
| 20 | Generally any firm receiving government assistance experiences a reduction in its costs which is unavailable to its competitors , and thereby achieves a competitive advantage . |
| 21 | No ordinary man , he ; with a good education behind him , coupled with a strong religious fervour , he would eventually achieve a degree of fame by compiling a treatise on the botany of North America , called Sketches towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus . |
| 22 | Thus , we will eventually achieve an optimal feasible solution . |
| 23 | However , he assumed that capitalism could not finally achieve an integrated world , that the bourgeoisie could never transcend nationality . |
| 24 | Equally , baseball is a fundamentally silly game that somehow achieves a kind of iconic status because its players dress like mad old Great Uncle Alfred on a day trip to Blackpool in 1910 . |
| 25 | After several twists and tilts , the sediment is not only disturbed and encouraged to leave the sides of the bottle , but the bottle finally achieves a fully inverted position ready for dégorgement . |
| 26 | Aileron forces are fine at low speeds , but as the IAS increases they get heavier , despite their balance tabs , until at 250 knots , using one 's biceps most efficiently , one can just achieve an acceptable roll-rate of sixty or so degrees per second to the left , while backhanded right rolls are truly slow rolls . |
| 27 | With defensive fields I would fire the ball in , and if I finally achieved a breakthrough I would be taken out of the attack . |
| 28 | Launched in September with no publicity , one of the worst time slots imaginable — one or four o'clock on a Sunday morning ( depending on which TV region you 're in ) — and what looks like the lowest budget in TV , it nevertheless achieved a ratings increase from 300,000 to 1.6 million in it 's first four months and , according to Granada TV insiders , it 's guaranteed to run ’ almost indefinitely ’ . |
| 29 | For example , it can be conditioned in a hypertonic saline solution so that on absorbing body fluids it increases in size , thus achieving a higher buckle than is possible with a non-swelling implant . |
| 30 | WACC-AR should develop leadership and resources so as to create a more critically aware consumer media , thus achieving a level of media literacy parallel to that of reading literacy ; |