Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] to achieve " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Another way in which a patient may seek to achieve control over his fate once he has become incompetent is through the device of an Enduring or Durable Power of Attorney . |
| 2 | In fact , trade unions may seek to achieve their objectives not only by collective bargaining but also by lobbying the legislature , or by a more fundamental form of political action aimed at transforming society . |
| 3 | The Councils of the Institute and Faculty are determined that we should strive to achieve even more influence within our areas of expertise and this will call for ever greater involvement of our current and future members in these areas both in the UK and overseas , particularly Europe . |
| 4 | Both documents seek to identify the skills and understandings which their respective subjects should seek to achieve at different stages of schooling . |
| 5 | This chapter outlines what society should seek to achieve for people with mental disorder . |
| 6 | These principles expand upon the basic standards set down in the rules of Conduct and indicate the standards which members should seek to achieve in the interests of good practice . |
| 7 | The different approaches , evident in the House of Lords , demonstrate the compromise which the law must seek to achieve between two extreme propositions : first , that the goods be merchantable for every purpose , which is harsh on the seller ; and second , that they be merchantable for any one of the purposes , which is adverse to the buyer . |
| 8 | If one assesses the gains and losses surrounding the admission of an elderly resident to any strange environment then you can begin to identify what you must strive to achieve if you will go anywhere near compensating for these losses . |
| 9 | ‘ Zero defects ’ are the goal that suppliers must strive to achieve in terms of quality . |
| 10 | ‘ There is evidence of a significant effort being made to improve safety but we must strive to achieve a reduction in accidents that matches the efforts , ’ said . |
| 11 | Industrialisation : Most LDCs must industrialise to achieve a higher per capita income . |
| 12 | Every manager has the task of contributing towards what his superior 's section must do to achieve its objectives . |
| 13 | Every manager has the task of contributing towards what his superior 's section must do to achieve its objectives . |
| 14 | If the runner can be told exactly why he or she is doing a particular type of training , what bodily changes it will bring about and how he or she should run to achieve them , then those 15 minutes a day of quality training are more than enough . |
| 15 | Men should work to achieve it . |
| 16 | My own feeling in 1981 was that we should try to achieve something better and that just muddling through was not enough . |
| 17 | The counsellor should try to achieve a more equitable balance by enabling the weaker individual to present feelings and needs as coherently and forcefully as possible , perhaps by clarifying and expanding on what is said . |
| 18 | Which is fair enough because one of the things I mentioned about the benefits of er or the things we should try to achieve in retirement or secure in retirement , is that if you 've had a challenge in life whilst you 're working then for goodness sake do n't drop it when you retire . |
| 19 | To decide , I require not only facts but awareness of how it is likely to feel passing my declining years in that village , and for that I must try to achieve independence of my personal and present viewpoint , reduce it to equality with other viewpoints . |
| 20 | There is indeed a skill of craftsmanship in applying technology ; knowing just how far to go in programming the machine and what to do by hand ; selecting from the materials and technologies and applying them in different ways ; deciding exactly what one should attempt to achieve through technology . |
| 21 | If it is necessary for the expatriate couple to learn a new language , the course should provide them with details on where they might go or the steps they should take to achieve this . |
| 22 | However , pregnant girls gave the least number of alternative solutions to the problems , and were least competent at describing the steps an imaginary protagonist should take to achieve her aims in five stories . |
| 23 | They state that ‘ A reasonable target [ for CPE ] can be expressed as an average of 150 points year on year — with three points being recorded for each hour of structured CPE and one point for each hour of unstructured activity … members for whom CPE is compulsory should aim to achieve at least 40% of their CPE … through structured activities … |
| 24 | Although there is no minimum requirement for structured CPE , it is recommended that members for whom CPE is compulsory should aim to achieve at least 40% of their CPE ( 60 points ) through structured activities ( ie three days ) . |
| 25 | We 've set the target of the year 2000 to make all rights of way accessible and the action pack should help to achieve that . |
| 26 | It would mean that British Gas would put a mileage rate on the transportation of gas so that regions such as Wales will suffer from higher gas prices , which will offset anything that we may do to achieve efficiency . |
| 27 | Although opportunities are so obviously different from problems there is a style of management thinking which equates the two by broadening the definition of a " problem " to include anything you might want to achieve . |
| 28 | As a result of central government policies , Islington social services suffered 8 per cent cuts in 1987/8 and all departments were asked to produce proposals for cuts of up to a further 25 per cent which they might have to achieve over the next two years . |
| 29 | Although set up fairly soon after the coordinating committee , the Inservice Panel got off to rather a slow start , with its early meetings being characterised by fairly unstructured discussion of how it might function and what it might aim to achieve . |
| 30 | It reminded her how little she really knew about him — about his character — his ambitions , and the lengths he might go to achieve them . |